Adrian Collyer is Director of Operations for Science, Healthcare & Innovation at Canary Wharf Group, responsible for leading the operational strategy and execution across a rapidly expanding portfolio of life sciences and innovation assets, including One North Quay. His role focuses on integrating operations with development and leasing to ensure assets are commercially successful, operationally resilient, and future-ready.

At One North Quay, Adrian is supporting the development of next-generation innovation infrastructure designed to accommodate advanced technologies, including AI-led organisations and emerging quantum computing capabilities. His work brings together operational readiness, technical infrastructure planning, and strategic partnerships to enable high-performance environments that support laboratory, data-driven, and compute-intensive use cases.

He brings over two decades of leadership experience across healthcare, clinical research, infrastructure and mission-critical environments. Throughout his career, Adrian has specialised in complex, highly regulated settings where operational performance, compliance, and risk management are critical to success. Previously, Adrian held senior leadership roles including Head of Facilities & Health and Safety at hVIVO, where he led multi-site operations within a regulated clinical research environment, strengthening compliance, audit performance, and operational resilience. He has also held senior estates and operational leadership roles across NHS hospital portfolios and within the UK government estate, including Animal Health and Plant Health Agency (Defra), where he led large-scale, multi-site facilities operations and capital programmes. Adrian is recognised for his ability to translate strategic ambition into operational delivery—building governance frameworks, driving performance improvement, and developing high-performing teams. He works closely with stakeholders across industry to support the growth of innovation ecosystems and the delivery of world-class science, healthcare, AI, and next-generation computing infrastructure.