New Year Brings New CEOs at Swiss Equipment Giant Ammann and Atlanta CM Firm
Schneider
Hans-Christian Schneider has been elevated to CEO of Ammann Group, the construction equipment and materials production firm based in Langenthal, Switzerland. He was deputy CEO. Schneider, 33, is the sixth generation of family members to run the 143 year-old company with 2,900 global employees. He replaces Ulrich Meyer, who has run the firm since 2010 when Schneider's father, Johann Niklaus Schneider-Ammann, became Swiss economics minister. As of Jan. 1, Schneider-Ammann became minister of economics, education and research.
Joseph P. McGonagle has joined construction management firm Project Time & Cost Inc.(PT&C), Atlanta, as CEO. He succeeds James P. Rispoli, who becomes senior executive advisor. McGonagle is formerly a senior vice president at Parsons Corp. and also was CEO of HNTB Federal Services. Rispoli, who also becomes professor of practice at North Carolina State University's Center for Nuclear Energy Facilities and Structures, had been an assistant secretary of energy.