Engineering and advisory agency Aurecon has appointed Louise Adams as its subsequent group CEO, with Adams to take over from William Cox from the start of July after six years within the position.
Adams has been with Aurecon for the previous two and a half many years each in Australia and overseas and presently serves as chief working officer, previous to which she was chief govt for the agency’s major enterprise in Australia and New Zealand.
As Aurecon’s first feminine group CEO, Adams will now oversee a enterprise spanning the Asia Pacific, together with additional retailers in China, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, which collectively host round 7,500 professionals.
“Since beginning as a graduate at Aurecon 25 years in the past, I’ve been lucky to get pleasure from an exceptionally rewarding profession, working with folks and on initiatives throughout the globe,” Adams mentioned. “This new position opens up an excellent bigger platform for me to drive constructive change for folks and the planet and form the way forward for Aurecon, making certain that we keep related, true and profitable for years to come back.”
Becoming a member of Aurecon on the again of a civil engineering diploma with the College of South Australia – famous as one in all solely two ladies in her graduating class – Adams then spent a few years working for the agency abroad, together with stints in Thailand, the UK, and UAE, the latter the place she served for 4 years as nation supervisor earlier than later being appointed managing director for A/NZ.
“Louise is a globally recognised enterprise chief with many years of expertise, who has honed razor-sharp insights and powerful enterprise acumen during the last 4 years delivering distinctive outcomes because the group’s COO, ” said Aurecon chair Giam Swiegers. “This, mixed along with her deep experience in Asia, will proceed to boost our folks, commerce and funding hyperlinks throughout the area.”
Adams will succeed Invoice Cox from the start of July, with Cox – who has altogether been with the agency for nearly three and a half many years – credited with having helped drive document ranges of firm development throughout his six years in cost, in an period of more and more advanced challenges round power safety, clear water, urbanisation, and local weather change.
“The longer term is stuffed with immense challenges, but in addition unbelievable alternatives, from combating local weather change to driving technological developments and transitioning to renewable power,” Adams mentioned. “In right now’s world, engineering isn’t just a method to an finish, it’s a drive for good. The talents and capabilities that we uniquely convey to the desk are key to offering secure and sustainable outcomes for society.”
Management variety
Having beforehand been the primary feminine govt director on Aurecon’s world board, Adams additionally expressed her satisfaction at now turning into the agency’s first feminine CEO, and reiterated her dedication to championing the significance of equality in STEM. In the meantime, her appointment follows that of Tanya de Hoog and Tracey Ryan as respectively chief engineer and New Zealand CEO.
Along with her senior management roles at Aurecon, Adams was additionally lately appointed by the Australian authorities as an inaugural member of its ASEAN-Australia Centre advisory board – which additionally contains Mandala engagement supervisor Hayley Winchcombe – together with its earlier ‘Enterprise Champions’ initiative, with Adams tasked with constructing commerce relations with Vietnam.
“I’ve labored intently with Louise for various years and might’t consider a greater particular person for the job,” Cox said. “Louise has buckets of power and a deep and intimate understanding of our business, purchasers and challenges, and her experience in Asia will advance our imaginative and prescient of a linked Aurecon well-positioned to answer the immense modifications occurring throughout the Asia Pacific.”
