{"id":19359,"date":"2016-08-30T14:29:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T14:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/taiwan\/press\/aecom-appoints-john-priestland-reinforce-drive-growth\/"},"modified":"2017-10-19T07:17:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T11:17:11","slug":"aecom-appoints-john-priestland-reinforce-drive-growth","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/press-releases\/aecom-appoints-john-priestland-reinforce-drive-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"AECOM appoints John Priestland to reinforce its drive for growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>30 August 2016 <\/b>\u2013 AECOM, the global infrastructure services company, has hired John Priestland as Chief Executive, Major Bids and Corporate Development, Europe, Middle East, India and Africa (EMIA). Reporting to EMIA Chief Executive Steve Morriss, John will serve as a member of the EMIA Executive team and will focus on growing AECOM\u2019s business across all markets in the region. He joined the company this week and will be based in London.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Steve Morriss, Chief Executive, Europe, Middle East, India and Africa, said: \u201cWe are ambitious to attract the best in the industry so that we can continue our exciting growth journey and keep improving our integrated offer to our clients.\u00a0John has an exemplary and proven record of winning major bids and successful acquisitions and is a great addition to our team.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">John\u2019s career spans strategy and major pursuits, as well as mergers and acquisitions, in the built environment sector. He was previously Global Strategy and Major Pursuits Director at WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff. Between\u00a02009 and 2015 he served\u00a0on the Executive Main Board at Hyder Consulting, which was acquired by Arcadis\u00a0in 2014. He has also held senior roles at Atkins and Amey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Commenting on his appointment, John added: \u201cAECOM\u2019s reputation and global reach is unrivalled in the industry. At a time of increasing change \u2013 for example in the use of technology and integration across the whole design, build, finance and operate (DBFO) cycle \u2013 AECOM is ideally placed to be the industry leader.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">John started his career in the civil service, where he worked for a number of departments, including the Cabinet Office. He holds an MBA from London Business School and a First Class degree in physics from Oxford University. John is a fellow of both the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Institute of Physics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Media contact:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Muna Al-Azzawi<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mobile: +44 (0) 7917 574 766<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"mailto:muna.al-azzawi@aecom.com\">muna.al-azzawi@aecom.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-19359","press-release","type-press-release","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/19359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-release"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/19359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}