Our story

“Projects are built by people. So are we.”

Why we built the home of project management in the Gulf.

It started with something we kept noticing.

Project professionals were surrounded by tools, certifications and frameworks, but had nowhere to simply talk to each other. Plenty of software. Plenty of methodology. No community.

And project management in this region can be isolating. Brilliant people solving hard problems: late programmes, impossible stakeholders, teams stretched across time zones, often without a peer group to lean on. The harder the problem, the lonelier the job.

So we built one.

In an increasingly digital, process-driven world, the need for genuine human connection has never been greater.

The Project Management Collective is a carefully curated community, built on shared values, mutual respect and a real desire to grow together. PMs, programme leads, PMO professionals, transformation people and delivery specialists across the UAE and Gulf: the people to call when you're stuck, and the people who'll call you.

Around the community we've built the rest of what a project career needs: delivery, talent, training and tooling, all inside one ecosystem we run. That's the ecosystem, and PMC sits at the centre of it.

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The founders

Built by people who’ve carried the risk.

Mark Primett

Mark Primett

Co-Founder PMC & PM Talent Partners

More than a decade of senior project, programme and PMO leadership across banking, insurance, FinTech, government and energy, delivering in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. Mark has personally led and recovered complex programmes in regulated, fast-moving environments, and is Co-founder of PM Talent Partners, the UAE's first dedicated project management recruitment company, run by people who have done the job.

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Rachael Keeble

Rachael Keeble

Founder of BuiltWell & Co-Founder PMC

Fifteen years leading projects across the built environment. Rachael is a Trustee of the Chartered Institute of Building, a Fellow of the Association for Project Management, a non-executive director, and was shortlisted for Construction Magazine's Inspiring Woman of the Year in 2024. Rachael is the founder of BuiltWell, which helps project managers and construction professionals move beyond firefighting and lead with confidence, authority and impact, without burning out.

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