Hill International Restructures Operations of its Construction Claims Group and Promotes Three Key Executives.MARLTON, N.J. -- Hill International (Nasdaq:HINT), the worldwide construction consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , announced today that it has reorganized its Construction Claims Group into three operating regions worldwide: the Americas, Europe/Middle East/Africa, and Asia/Pacific. This reorganization was necessitated by Hill's acquisition last year of James R. Knowles (Holdings) Ltd., a UK-based construction claims firm, which nearly quadrupled the size of Hill's construction claims practice and substantially increased its geographic reach. As a result of the reorganization, three of Hill's key executives were promoted to manage those regional operations, all effective January 1, 2007. Frank J. Giunta, P.E., was promoted to Senior Vice President and Managing Director (Americas), which includes Hill's operations throughout the U.S. and Canada. He was previously Senior Vice President in charge of Hill's Eastern U.S. claims operations. Giunta, who joined the firm in 1981, has managed complex consulting assignments on behalf of public and private owners, engineers, contractors, insurance and financial institutions for more than 25 years. These assignments have involved a wide range of projects which include highways and bridges, dams, power related facilities, water and wastewater treatment, airports, and building projects. Giunta earned his B.S. in civil engineering from Temple University and his M.B.A from Drexel University Drexel University, at Philadelphia, Pa.; coeducational; founded 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, opened 1892, chartered 1894 as Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry. It was renamed Drexel Institute of Technology in 1936 and gained university status in 1970. , and he is a licensed professional engineer in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Renny Borhan, was promoted to Senior Vice President and Managing Director (Europe/Middle East/Africa). He was previously Senior Vice President in charge of Hill's European and Middle Eastern claims operations. Borhan, who joined Hill in 1993, has over 20 years of claims and dispute resolution experience as well as project and construction management experience. His experience includes major projects such as Disneyland in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , EuroDisney in Paris, the Petronas Twin Towers The Petronas Twin Towers (also known as the Petronas Towers or Twin Towers), in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia are the world's tallest twin buildings. They were the world's tallest buildings from 1998 to 2004 if measured from the level of the main entrance to the structural in Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur (kwä`lə l m`p r), city (1990 est. pop. , and the Hrasdan 300mw power plant in Armenia. Borhan earned his B.S. in industrial engineering from the University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB)See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. and two M.B.A. degrees, from Columbia University Columbia University, mainly in New York City; founded 1754 as King's College by grant of King George II; first college in New York City, fifth oldest in the United States; one of the eight Ivy League institutions. and the London Business School Around 800 degree students, from 70 countries, graduate from the school each year. Over 80 percent of students, and over 70 percent of faculty, come from outside the UK. A further 6,000 executives attend the school executive education programmes each year. . Rodney L. Martin, MRICS MRICS Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors , PFIArb, was promoted to Senior Vice President and Managing Director (Asia/Pacific), which includes Hill's operations throughout Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. and Australia. He was previously a Group Regional Director with Knowles. Martin, who joined Knowles in 1995, is a chartered quantity surveyor quantity surveyor Noun a person who estimates the cost of the materials and labour necessary for a construction job quantity surveyor n → aparejador(a) m/f with over 20 years experience in the construction industry. He has a broad range of experience in claims preparation, contractual advice, dispute resolution and dispute avoidance on projects worldwide. Martin earned his B.Sc. in quantity surveying and an LL.B. (Honors) in law from Westminster University, as well as M.Sc. in construction law and arbitration from King's College, London. "These three deserving leaders bring diverse construction experience and a strong track record of success," said Fred Samelian, President of Hill's Construction Claims Group. "I look forward to working closely with them in the coming year as we move from integration to the realization of the success that I expect our combined operations will achieve," Samelian added. Hill International, with 1,400 employees in 60 offices worldwide, provides program management, project management, construction management, and construction claims services. Engineering News-Record magazine recently ranked Hill as the 17th largest construction management firm in the United States. For more information on Hill, please visit our website at www.hillintl.com. This press release may include certain statements that fall within the definition of "forward-looking statements" under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Any such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, overall economic and market conditions, competitors' and clients' actions, and weather conditions, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated, including those risks identified in Hill's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Accordingly, such statements should be considered in light of these risks. Any prediction by Hill is only a statement of management's belief at the time the prediction is made. There can be no assurance that any prediction once made will continue thereafter to reflect management's belief, and Hill does not undertake to update publicly its predictions, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. (HINT-G) |
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