Laing O’Rourke, the London contractor that is the U.K.’s largest privately owned construction firm, said on Nov. 29 that its co-founder and 45-year CEO Ray O’Rourke will leave that role next September. It named as his successor Seamus French, a division CEO of Anglo American plc, a U.K.-based multinational mining firm.
He takes the new CEO job under a three-year contract, Laing O’Rourke said.