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  "language": "en",
  "interfaceLanguage": "en",
  "url": "https://voltformer.com/news/ghd-jim-giannopoulos-ceo",
  "slug": "ghd-jim-giannopoulos-ceo",
  "category": "epc-contractors",
  "publishDate": "2024-04-02",
  "sourceName": "GHD",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.ghd.com/en-au/about-ghd/news/02-04-2024-ghd-names-jim-giannopoulos-as-new-global-ceo",
  "readingTimeMinutes": 1,
  "tags": [
    "GHD",
    "EPC"
  ],
  "content": {
    "title": "GHD names Jim Giannopoulos as new global CEO",
    "summary": "GHD announced that Jim Giannopoulos would succeed Ashley Wright as CEO effective 2 April 2024. He previously led GHD’s Americas region and joined the firm as a graduate chemical engineer more than 30 years earlier. GHD said he is based in Melbourne, Australia.",
    "sections": [
      {
        "heading": "Reported scope and milestone",
        "paragraphs": [
          "GHD announced that Jim Giannopoulos would succeed Ashley Wright as CEO effective 2 April 2024. He previously led GHD’s Americas region and joined the firm as a graduate chemical engineer more than 30 years earlier. GHD said he is based in Melbourne, Australia."
        ],
        "sources": [
          {
            "name": "GHD",
            "url": "https://www.ghd.com/en-au/about-ghd/news/02-04-2024-ghd-names-jim-giannopoulos-as-new-global-ceo"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "heading": "Engineering interpretation",
        "paragraphs": [
          "GHD’s announcement documents a corporate leadership transition, not an engineering contract. Giannopoulos’s Americas leadership and chemical-engineering background are career details, not project-delivery claims. Melbourne is his stated work base and should not be conflated with the company’s Sydney corporate contact."
        ],
        "sources": [
          {
            "name": "GHD",
            "url": "https://www.ghd.com/en-au/about-ghd/news/02-04-2024-ghd-names-jim-giannopoulos-as-new-global-ceo"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "heading": "Delivery responsibilities",
        "paragraphs": [
          "An organizational or community update should be interpreted within the activity it actually records. People, facilities and local relationships support a company’s presence, but they do not establish a new engineering award, completed project or guaranteed future delivery capacity. Published participation, fundraising and office-opening figures belong to that reported event. Buyers still need separate evidence of the project team, technical responsibilities and contract scope for a procurement decision. Keeping those distinctions visible makes the company record useful without turning corporate participation into an unsupported construction claim."
        ],
        "sources": [
          {
            "name": "GHD",
            "url": "https://www.ghd.com/en-au/about-ghd/news/02-04-2024-ghd-names-jim-giannopoulos-as-new-global-ceo"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "companies": [
    {
      "slug": "ghd",
      "name": "GHD",
      "href": "/epc-contractors/ghd",
      "website": "https://www.ghd.com/en-au",
      "aliases": [
        "GHD",
        "جي إتش دي"
      ]
    }
  ]
}