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Posted: August 16, 2016
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff names Dominguez and Montenegro Latin America region leaders
New York, NY WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, has named Jorge Chaves Dominguez as president and Asdrubal Montenegro as chief financial officer of its Latin America region.
“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, which is active in the advisory, buildings, environment, industrial & energy and transportation & infrastructure sectors.
Chaves brings more than 30 years of engineering and management expertise in the U.S. and Latin America to his new position as president, in which he will oversee more than 1,100 employees in offices in Colombia, Chile, Peru, Mexico, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Prior to joining WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, Chaves was the general manager of Schrader Camargo, an engineering firm based in Cundinamarca, Colombia, where he oversaw operations in Mexico, Panama, Peru, Colombia and 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.
He 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.
Montenegro 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, Colombia, and attended a mergers and acquisitions executive program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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