Brown and Caldwell names chief strategy officer

Brown and Caldwell has announced Ravi Chadha has joined the firm as senior vice president and chief strategy officer (CSO), succeeding Jay Patil, who is retiring after more than three decades in the environmental consulting sector.

With more than 25 years of experience leading business strategies, organizational transformations and product/service team management for several Fortune 500 companies, Chadha brings a wealth of knowledge in driving company performance. In executive roles, he has directed change and business process initiatives to achieve growth objectives for multi-billion-dollar revenue organizations in various industries, including strategic consulting, automotive and heavy machinery manufacturing.

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“We congratulate Jay on his retirement and thank him for dedicating the last 18 years of his career to shaping Brown and Caldwell’s growth and sales strategies,” Brown and Caldwell CEO Rich D’Amato says. “He has been instrumental in transforming our business model to deliver sustained double-digit growth. In Ravi, I am delighted to welcome an accomplished, results-driven leader who brings deep experience in varying sectors, which will help us continue to innovate and find new ways to achieve the best possible outcomes for our clients and communities.”

As CSO, Chadha will develop, implement and oversee Brown and Caldwell’s strategic direction. He will work closely with company leadership to ensure the employee-owned firm is well-positioned to sustain its measured growth and build on its reputation as a water and environmental market leader. In addition to strategy, he will direct business transformation, change management, mergers and acquisitions and communications initiatives.

Chadra’s hire is the latest in a string of personnel moves by the company, which also has hired a vice president of strategic funding, a senior vice president and its new chief people officer and a senior director of digital solutions since the beginning of the year.

Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Brown and Caldwell is a full-service environmental engineering and construction services firm with 52 offices and more than 1,900 professionals across North America and the Pacific.