Publish Date : 17-Jan-2015
ARCADIS, the world's leading natural and built asset design & consultancy firm, today announced it has appointed John Jastrem to the position of CEO of its North American activities effective January 15, 2015. Per the same date, ARCADIS appointed Joachim Ebert to the position of COO for North America. Both men will succeed Gary Coates, who will retire after having effectively combined these roles over the past 22 months, to manage the transition after the departure of Steve Blake as CEO in 2013.
John Jastrem has been with ARCADIS since the acquisition of Callison in October 2014, where he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Callison Architecture Holding, LLC and Subsidiaries ("CAH "), since January 2011 and as Executive Chairman since August 2010. Jastrem has a long and successful history serving in chief executive roles. He joined Viad Corp. in October 2006 as Chief Executive Officer of Exhibitgroup/Giltspur, a division of Viad, and subsequently merged two other divisions into one integrated company rebranded as Global Experience Specialist. Previously, he was with Omnicom Group Inc, where he started in 1998 as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Rapp Collins Worldwide-Dallas - and then served as President of The Marketing Arm. He concluded his tenure as an executive of DAS Corporate, a division of Omnicom, overseeing 182 companies generating $6.5 billion in annual revenue. Prior to his tenure at Omnicom, Jastrem held senior management positions in both private equity and industry. Jastrem began his career with Andersen where he served for eight years and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Commerce and Finance, Cum Laude from Wilkes University.
To ensure continuity, John will remain a member of the Callison Board of Directors while also joining the Board of RTKL. Joachim Ebert has been a Partner with McKinsey & Company in Dallas since October 2011. Experienced in strategy, organization, and operations, he has a strong track record in leading large-scale transformations aimed at significantly improving top and bottom line performance. He has worked on six continents and has served leading companies across a variety of capital intensive, B2B and consumer industries. Prior to McKinsey, Joachim Ebert was a Partner at A.T. Kearney, where he held a variety of management positions, including leader of the Operations Practice for the Americas and leader of the Competence Team for Complexity Management and Innovation.
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