ENR Michael Caliel, an IT sector veteran, now will lead the global drilling-water services contractor. Layne Christensen has high hopes for Michael J. Caliel, who takes over on Jan. 2 as president and CEO of the U.S.-based global water management, construction and drilling contractor, after a 2014 of tough business breaks.The former IT sector chief was tapped earlier this month to succeed board Chairman David A.B. Brown, who took those roles temporarily in June, following the sudden resignation of former CEO Rene J. Robichaud in the wake of big bottom-line issues.According to analysts, Robichaud stepped down in what Layne Christensen
Related Links: Parsons Corp. Expands Presence in Canada Transport Design Bowles is back, this time to help Kidder expand further in California Windfarms in Australia may be blown away as Prime Minister Tony Abbott lauds coal Rider Levett Bucknall, a U.K.-based cost and project management consulting firm wth more than 120 offices and 3,200 staff globally, will not replace Lance Taylor, CEO of its 400-person U.K. division in London, who left the firm in September. Instead, it will share his executive responsibility among six division board directors to promote what it calls a more “collegiate” management approach, according to British
Sean Airhart, NBBJ Digital content firm veteran also held management roles at Sotheby's. Related Links: NBBJ Website Juli Cook, a veteran executive credited with innovating business models in professional and creative services firms, has joined Seattle design firm NBBJ as chief operating officer. Previously, she was an executive vice president of Corbis Corp., a digital content licensing company founded in 1989 by Bill Gates. She most recently led diversification efforts in its unit, Corbis Images, successfully acquiring multiple new business lines. Cook also had been vice president of product management at retail bank Washington Mutual, and held management roles at
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. said on Nov. 23 that President and CEO Craig Martin will retire from the role and the firm, effective Dec. 26, for unspecified “health reasons.”
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Related Links: Laing O'Rourke boosted by improvement down under AndrewsVeteran global executive Mark Andrews has joined U.K. construction firm Laing O'Rourke as managing director of its Middle East operations, primarily focused in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Most recently, he was chief operating officer of Arabtec Holding, a UAE-based construction services firm that ranks at No. 135 on ENR's list of The Top 250 Global Contractors, with more than $2 billion in 2013 revenue. Andrews also was formerly CEO of U.K.-based engineer NG Bailey and North American chief for global manufacturer Pirelli Power Systems and Cables, and held
Along with new cost impacts that Houston-based Willbros Group Inc. announced on Oct. 22 from “deterioration” of an unidentified northeast U.S. oil and gas pipeline project that will require it to restate results, the contractor has reshuffled its top management.John T. McNabb II has been named CEO, immediately replacing Robert R. “Randy” Harl, who has expedited his retirement from Jan. 2. McNabb, who is vice chairman of investment firm Duff & Phelps, has been a Willbros director since 2006 and now also becomes chairman. Harl, CEO since 2006, had been chairman and CEO of Kellogg Brown & Root. Willbros also
GloverAECOM confirms that David Glover, its London-based global CEO of building engineering, will depart at the end of October to become chief executive of Intelligent Engineering, a U.K.-based consulting firm.
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Related Links: Bob Pragada, Group Vice President of Jacobs, shares a quick vision of the pharma facility of tomorrow (2013 video clip). PragadaRobert V. Pragada has joined The Brock Group, Houston, one of the largest U.S. industrial services subcontractors, as president and CEO. In those roles he succeeds Jeff Davis, who continues as chairman. Pragada had been senior vice president of global sales at Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. and also served as chief operating officer at Kinetics, an industrial-process design-build firm. Davis was named CEO in 2008. Brock Group ranks at No. 6 on ENR's list of the Top 600
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