Amec has appointed Samir Brikho as its chief executive.
The development, engineering, project management and mixed-use group said this morning that Brikho, a member of the ABB group executive committee, would succeed Sir Peter Mason on 1 October.
Sir Peter, who has headed the group for 10 years, will step down as chief executive and as director of Amec on 30 September and will retire from the company on 31 October.
Brikho, 48, currently heads ABB’s Power Systems Division and is chairman of ABB Lummus Global, the international projects and services business, which together had a turnover of around $5bn (£2.64bn) in 2005.
Jock Green-Armytage, chairman of Amec, said: “We are delighted to announce the appointment of Samir Brikho as chief executive.
“His experience and success in a major international company of the calibre of ABB together with his personal dynamism, ideally qualifies him to take Amec forward.”
Amec said Brikho joined the Board as the group neared completion of its strategic review.
In June Amec, which is exiting most of its construction activities in the UK and US as part of a three-way break-up of the group, revealed millions of pounds worth of forthcoming exceptional charges.
The group, which has a £1bn portfolio and 10m sq ft under construction, has just begun work on large-scale regeneration schemes at St Paul’s Square in Liverpool and Chatham Place in Reading, and has recently been chosen as preferred bidder for projects at Pall Mall in Liverpool and at North Shore in Stockton-on-Tees.
References: EGi News 25/08/06
