Samir Brikho
Samir Brikho is chief executive of AMEC plc.
Prior to joining AMEC in October 2006, Samir, a member of the ABB Executive Committee, headed the Power Systems Division of ABB, the Swedish-Swiss engineering group. He was also Chairman of ABB Lummus Global, ABB’s international projects and services business.
Mr Brikho (48), a Swedish citizen, born in Lebanon, joined ABB in 1983, and for 10 years led sales in a range of world markets, rising to Senior Vice President and MD of ABB Kraftwerke in 1995. In 1999, he became CEO of ABB Alstom Kraftwerke, moving to head the international operations of Alstom Power in 2000.
He rejoined ABB in 2003 as Chief Executive of ABB Lummus Global in Switzerland, an international business focused on the oil and gas, petroleum refinery and petrochemical process industries. While in this post he returned this previously loss-making business to profit.
Samir Brikho holds an engineering degree, Master of Science in Thermal Technology from the Royal High School of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, and completed the YMP Program at Insead in France in 1991. He completed a Senior Executive Programme, Stanford, USA in 2000. He speaks Swedish, Arabic, English, German and French fluently.
Samir has two children and his interests include sports and music.
AMEC plc (www.amec.com) is an international project management and services company that designs, delivers and supports infrastructure assets for customers across the public and private sectors. AMEC employs more than 20,000 people working from a network of offices throughout the UK, US and Canada, as well as regional offices and projects worldwide. AMEC's shares are traded on the London Stock Exchange where the company is listed in the Support Services sector (LSE: AMEC.L).