LOS ANGELES—AECOM's board of directors has named CEO Michael Burke chairman of the board. Burke succeeds John M. Dionisio, a 43-year veteran of the company, who is retiring. The appointment also comes on the heels of Burke's recent to promotion to CEO in March of last year.

“Personally, I'm very grateful to our board of directors for their continuing leadership and the trust they are placing in me,” Burke tells GlobeSt.com. “Since becoming CEO in March 2014, our focus as a company has been to execute against AECOM's vision to be the premier fully integrated infrastructure firm in the world, and we're well on our way.” The firm's latest project—a $144-million mixed-use complex, which it is developing in partnership with Mack Urban and Capri Capital Partners—broke ground this week.

Burke is the 25-year-old company's fourth chairman. He joined AECOM is 2005, and was quickly promoted to chief financial officer in 2006. Then, in 2011, he was named president of the company. Since he became CEO last year, he has overseen some major growth, including doubling the company's revenue and workforce and a merger with URS Corp. And, he assures that there is more growth ahead.

“We're very enthusiastic about the opportunities ahead of us and privileged to build upon the tremendous legacy of our company's visionaries,” he says. “Today we have nearly 100,000 employees in more than 150 countries. These talented people are qualified to work anywhere in the industry, but they choose to work at AECOM because we offer a truly differentiated platform that delivers our clients the best in integrated thinking and solutions and offers extraordinary career opportunities for our employees. We earned Fortune Magazine's distinction as a World's Most Admired Company in February, for which I'm quite proud; we're involved in many of the world's most iconic and complex projects; and our global clients will continue to benefit from our unsurpassed design, build, finance, and operations capabilities across our market sectors.''

Dionisio will remain on the board of directors.

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.

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