Leadership transition announced by Ramboll Group board will see its CEO of more than a decade leave the global engineering company.
Ramboll has announced that its CEO Jens-Peter Saul will be leaving the company after 14 years in charge of the global engineering and consultancy company.
In a statement on the Ramboll website, the company announced that “after almost 14 years as CEO of the Ramboll Group, the group board of directors and Jens-Peter Saul have decided it is time for a change of guard”. Saul is expected to continue in his position until a successor has been found.
Jens-Peter Saul joined Ramboll as group CEO in 2012 and has since fronted the development of the company from being primarily a Nordic engineering company to becoming a global architecture, engineering and consultancy company with a leading position in sustainability.
Chair of the Ramboll Group board of directors, Claus V Hemmingsen, said: “I want to thank Jens-Peter for his enormous contribution to Ramboll. Under his transformational leadership Ramboll has grown and developed into a global, thought-leading and well-reputed company. We have the long-term sustainable direction for the company in place and as we are now approaching a new strategy period, we have agreed that it is time to pass on the baton to a new CEO who can both develop and execute the strategy over the coming years. This is therefore a well-considered transition of leadership and Jens-Peter Saul will continue in his position as CEO until a successor has been found.”
During Saul’s tenure as CEO, Ramboll has doubled in size and today has more than 18,000 experts operating in 35 countries. Through large acquisitions and organic growth Ramboll’s footprint in the US has grown from zero to more than 2,000 employees in ten years. The company also established a leading architecture profile through the acquisition of Henning Larsen in 2020. Ramboll is considered a leader in the green energy transition and has developed a strong market leading profile in environmental consultancy.
Ramboll CEO Jens-Peter Saul commented: “It has been an honour to lead such a great company as Ramboll for more than a decade. Ramboll is a company with a very strong sense of purpose, a broad international platform and, not least, 18,000 extremely talented employees who, through their expertise and passion, drive sustainable change for clients and societies all over the world. Being the CEO of a large organisation for almost 14 years is a long time and it is with a feeling of accomplishment that I look back on what we have achieved.”
The Ramboll Group board of directors have initiated the search for a new CEO that will be announced in the months to come. Until then, Jens-Peter Saul remains in position as CEO.
