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Meet the Team

Sam Heard
Owner and Director

Sam follows in the footsteps of her father Mike Smith (retired) and is the second generation to run tunnelbuilder, which she has successfully done for over 25 years.

Sam’s background is a BA Hons in International Business, and a Bachelor of Education (BE’d) degree. Sam taught Information Technology at the University of Glamorgan for 7 years.

She now leads a team of researchers who scour the world for all the latest tunnelling tenders, awards RFQs bids and news for the tunnelling industry.

Email: sam@tunnelbuilder.com
Mob: 044 (0) 7729604866

Monica Sigismondo
Content Writer and Editor
Business Development Manager Italia

Monica has worked for Tunnelbuilder since tunnelbuilder.it began in 2005. An experienced Journalist with a history of working in the civil engineering industry. Monica is responsible for producing every day tenders and headlines for the English and Italian websites, providing information on worldwide tunnelling projects.

Skilled in Negotiation, Business Planning, Tunnelling, Sales, and Engineering. Monica is also head of sales for the Italian market on the tunnelbuilder websites.

Monica is a strong media and communication professional graduated from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano.


Email: monica@tunnelbuilder.com
Tel: +39 347 7525052