WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff on July 25, 2016 named Jorge A. Chaves Dominguez as President and Asdrubal Montenegro as Chief Financial Officer of its Latin America region.
Chaves brings more than 30 years of engineering and management expertise in the U.S. and Latin America to his new position, in which he will oversee more than 1,100 employees in offices in Colombia, Chile, Peru, Mexico and Trinidad & Tobago.
Prior to joining WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, Chaves was General Manager of Schrader Camargo, an engineering firm based in Cundinamarca, Colombia, where he oversaw operations in Mexico, Panama, Peru, Colombia and the Dominican Republic. Previously, he managed energy, aviation and petrochemical projects in Colombia in various managerial and board positions for multiple firms.
Chaves worked in the U.S. for several years in the infrastructure, energy and construction markets. His areas of expertise included overseeing global assets and regional operations while directing projects and regional business development.
Chaves earned an M.S. in civil engineering and a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Manhattan College in New York City.
Montenegro brings more than 20 years of financial and management expertise to his new position as CFO for Latin America. He has worked in the Middle East, Asia, the U.S. and Latin America, where he held financial and commercial positions at companies including DuPont, BHP Billiton, Schlumberger and Halliburton. He holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a C.P.A. from Politecnico Grancolombiano in Bogota, Colombia, a finance diploma from Universidad de la Sabana in Bogota and attended a mergers and acquisitions executive program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
“We look forward to growing our business in Central and South America under Jorge’s executive leadership and Asdrubal’s financial management,” said Gregory Kelly, President and CEO of WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff in the U.S., Central and South America.