Bechtel promoted Catherine Hunt Ryan to chief financial office on Monday, the company announced in a press release.
Hunt Ryan previously served as CFO at Bechtel’s Oil, Gas & Chemicals business for more than two years and has been with the company for 11 years. She has also worked at Credit Suisse and the World Bank, according to her LinkedIn profile.
She will manage Bechtel’s finance operations, including controller, tax, and treasury functions.
“Catherine is uniquely suited to build on the strong legacy of the CFO role as both a financial steward and a catalyst for growth,” Bechtel Chairman and CEO Brendan Bechtel said in the release. “We welcome her fresh outlook on finance and strategy, as well as her passion for our work, to the leadership team.
Hunt Ryan succeeded longtime CFO Peter Dawson in September. Dawson, who was CFO for 14 years, held many leadership posts during his 40-year career at Bechtel, including president of the former Civil Infrastructure business. He will join the Bechtel board as a non-executive director effective Jan. 1, 2019.
In the same news release, the company said Mary McLaughlin, who leads engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) functions at the company, has been named to the Bechtel Group’s board.
McLaughlin has held a number of management posts in nearly 20 years at Bechtel, including overseeing construction of new natural gas-fueled power plants.
“Mary brings deep competence in project delivery and has been an outstanding leader at the project, business unit, and corporate levels, consistently contributing to the strong performance of Bechtel,” Brendan Bechtel said.
Bechtel is a major player in the DOE cleanup space, holding a long-term contract for construction of the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant at the Hanford Site in Washington state. It is also one of the partners in AECOM-led Savannah River Remediation, holder of the current $5 billion-plus contract for liquid waste management at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
Meanwhile, Las Vegas-based consulting firm Longenecker & Associates has hired James Veres for its newly created post of chief financial officer and vice president of business operations, effective Oct. 22, according to a Monday news release.
Veres, who will be based in Washington, was since 2011 chief financial officer at BCS, a government services firm and subsidiary of Montero Williams International. He will be in charge of day-to-day financial management of Longenecker, a small-business subcontractor to the Department of Energy’s management and operations and waste-cleanup contractors at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
