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| SNC-Lavalin appoints Jeff Bell as Chief Financial Officer SNC-Lavalin (TSX:SNC) announced the appointment of Jeff Bell as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective April 14, as part of an ongoing renewal process at the senior leadership level focused on supporting the execution of the Company's new strategic direction. Mr. Bell, a former Group CFO with FTSE-listed energy services firm Centrica plc and Barrie, Ontario native, will join SNC-Lavalin as Executive-Vice-President on February 11, 2020. He will work closely with current Company CFO, Sylvain Girard, to ensure a smooth transition process before assuming his new role as CFO in April. Based in Montreal, Mr. Bell will report to Ian L. Edwards, President and CEO, and join the Executive Committee. Mr. Bell's appointment as CFO follows a number of other recent appointments at the senior leadership level, including that of Charlene A. Ripley as Executive Vice-President and General Counsel, and Louis Véronneau, to the newly created role of Chief Transformation Officer (CTO). Mr. Véronneau, who assumed his new role on February 3rd, is tasked with rapidly re-aligning the Company's organizational structure and assets to its new strategic direction. In July 2019, SNC-Lavalin announced a new strategic direction focused on de-risking the business and prioritizing the Company's high-performing and growth areas, including EDPM, Nuclear, and Infrastructure Services. The new strategy has three principal components: i - reorganizing the Company into two separate lines of business - SNCL Engineering Services, and SNCL Projects, which is responsible for running off the remaining LSTK backlog, ii - exiting from the LSTK contracting model, and iii - exploring all options with regards to the Resources segment, including possible divestitures or transition to a services-based business. About Jeff Bell Mr. Bell was previously Group Chief Financial Officer at Centrica Plc, a UK FTSE listed energy services and solutions company. He joined Centrica's Direct Energy business in Toronto in 2002 where he held various senior finance positions before moving to Centrica's head office in the UK in 2008. Mr. Bell held the positions of Executive Assistant to the CEO and Head of Group Strategy, and Director of Corporate Finance & Group Financial Controller before being appointed CFO in 2015. Prior to joining Centrica, Mr. Bell, a Chartered Professional Accountant, worked for The Boston Consulting Group and KPMG in Canada. He has a BA in Accounting from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from Harvard Business School. write your comments about the article :: © 2020 Construction News :: home page |