Infrastructure advisory firm has named its Chief Innovation Officer John McGuire as its new Global Managing Director, to lead its built environment team worldwide.
According to a statement form the company, the new leadership appointment is to address an industry in ‘catch-up mode’.
The statement read that while momentum is building in property and construction to embrace the benefits that digitisation and automation bring, Aurecon believes the pace of change remains too slow and has made significant alterations to its leadership cohort to address what it’s calling ‘an industry in catch-up mode’.
To drive this transformation across its built environment business, the firm has appointed Mr. McGuire, and has extended the role of its Global Director of Excellence and Expertise, Dr. Kourosh Kayvani, to include full responsibility for innovation across the company.
“No industry is immune to change and the impacts of digital transformation, but some industries have been faster than others in embracing the benefits that digitisation and automation can bring. By comparison, the building industry has been a slow mover and is now feeling both the disruptive impacts of digital, as well as the benefits it can bring for those who embrace it and innovate,” said Giam Swiegers, Aurecon’s Global CEO.
“John has successfully reshaped Aurecon’s innovation culture, and I am delighted that he will now be at the forefront of transformation of our built environment business as its Global Managing Director,” says Mr Swiegers, going on to thank departing Managing Director, James Bennett, for his contribution to the role over the past two years and his many years of service to Aurecon.
To date, Mr. McGuire has been instrumental in developing and leading Aurecon’s innovation strategy, the result of which saw Aurecon named among the top five most innovative companies for 2017 by the Australian Financial Review. As an experienced mechanical engineer with a 30-year history in the building space, he has a passion for design, innovation and the built environment and is poised to transform the way Aurecon delivers to its built environment clients.
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