When George Nash joined U.K.-based engineer-construction manager Atkins in 2016 as its North America CEO, it was his first time working for a company with a non-U.S. headquarters in a more than 30-year career. According to the executive, the experience had a profound effect on him professionally—and personally.
With the firm then acquired one year later by Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., Nash says he was an American minority on Atkins’ international management team, but adds that it was “fascinating for me to feel that, understand it and integrate it into the team.”