The Simpson Gumpertz & Heger board of directors appointed a new executive partnership on Jan. 1 to lead the Waltham, Mass.-based national design firm. James Parker is its new CEO, and Niklas Vigener is chief technical officer. Parker had been head of structural engineering and structural mechanics, and Vigener had been head of building technology.
The Boston-based Building Trades Employers Association Northeast named Thomas S. Gunning as executive director. The group represents union building contractors in six New England states, Pennsylvania and parts of upstate New York. Gunning, who was BTEA’s director of labor relations, succeeds Thomas J. Gunning, who now is executive director emeritus.