Aurecon has appointed infrastructure leader Ben Stapleton as managing director, infrastructure.
The appointment reflects Aurecon’s commitment to providing user-focused, innovative solutions to government and private sector clients as they tackle current and future infrastructure challenges such as unprecedented urbanization, changing community expectations and the significant impact of emerging technologies.
Stapleton has significant experience as a leader and advisor in the infrastructure industry across many geographies and roles. His expertise on major, multi-faceted infrastructure projects will help Aurecon position itself to assist clients to navigate mounting complexities, including changing funding mechanisms and delivery models as needs for nation-building infrastructure increase.
Stapleton’s experience in leading high performing multidisciplinary teams as they address these infrastructure planning, design, operation and maintenance challenges, as well as his deep understanding of social, technical and financial influences, will assist Aurecon’s global team in helping clients advance their business.
“Some of the things that attracted me to this role at Aurecon are the company’s energetic approach to leveraging disruptive technology and best practice innovation to help clients make better decisions about all lifecycle stages of their infrastructure assets,” says Stapleton.
“Aurecon is ideally positioned to help clients make better use of design and technology for long term infrastructure planning, development and maintenance.”
Aurecon’s Global CEO Giam Swiegers says that experts like Stapleton bring strong leadership and advisory capabilities to major growth markets for Aurecon.
“Appointing the right people is one of the many steps that Aurecon takes to ensure that our global teams are able to lead amidst ongoing disruption in our industry.
“Ben will play an important role in contributing subject matter expertise to clients working in a complex global environment and who need asset optimisation, support with digitisation and smart infrastructure solutions.”
