Ricardo rail managing director Iain Carmichael has been appointed managing director for intelligent infrastructure at WSP UK & Ireland.
The promotion comes five months after the Canadian consulting engineer acquired the British automotive engineering consultancy.
Carmichael has with a professional background spanning systems engineering, operational safety, risk management and third party certification. He began his career in Hong Kong in the 1990s and was managing director of Ricardo鈥檚 Asia office there between 2015 and 2018 before returning to the UK.
WSP managing director for transport & infrastructure Darren Reed said: 鈥淚ain brings an exceptional track record in systems integration, safety, operations and complex programme delivery. His global leadership experience, combined with Ricardo鈥檚 depth of expertise, strengthens our ability to help clients transition to more digital, data enabled and resilient infrastructure. We鈥檙e delighted to welcome him into the WSP team.鈥�
Iain Carmichael added: 鈥淚鈥檓 excited to be joining WSP at a pivotal moment, as our combined capabilities with Ricardo create new opportunities to shape the future of intelligent, connected infrastructure. Having spent much of my career delivering safety critical, technically demanding programmes across the world, I鈥檓 looking forward to working with colleagues and clients to integrate systems, data and engineering in ways that improve performance, reliability and long term resilience.鈥�