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| Aecom appoints CEO Michael S. Burke as chairman of the board  Aecom (NYSE:ACM), the world's #1-ranked engineering design firm, announced that its board of directors has appointed Chief Executive Officer Michael S. Burke to the additional position of chairman of the board. The appointment completes a planned succession following the retirement of John M. Dionisio as executive chairman.Burke, who was appointed chief executive officer in March 2014, has overseen a major transformation of Aecom. Over the past 12 months, Aecom has more than doubled its revenue and the size of its workforce via several acquisitions, most notably URS Corp., and has dramatically accelerated its strategy to create an integrated-delivery platform with superior capabilities to design, build, finance and operate infrastructure assets around the world. In February 2015, for the first time in its history, the company was designated a Fortune World's Most Admired Company. Burke has served as a key Aecom leader since he joined the company in 2005 and has been instrumental in the evolution of Aecom from a private company with approximately 20,000 employees to a public company with nearly 100,000 employees. He was named chief financial officer in 2006 and, prior to his appointment as CEO last year, Burke had been president of the company since October 2011. He becomes Aecom's fourth chairman in the company's 25-year history. Dionisio will remain a member of the board of directors. Photo: Business Wire write your comments about the article :: © 2015 Construction News :: home page |