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Jacqueline (Rast) Hinman - Outstanding Engineering Alumni 2013

Jacqueline (Rast) Hinman has 29 years of experience in the engineering and construction industry and has held key executive leadership, and management, operations, and technical roles, in the fields of transportation, infrastructure, water, buildings, military facilities, environmental cleanup, sports, and industrial facilities.

Ms. Rast currently serves as the President of CH2M HILL's International Division, comprised of CH2M HILL's operations outside of the United States (including the operations of UK-Headquartered Halcrow Group, acquired by CH2M HILL in November 2011, for which she serves as Chairman and CEO). The International Division has approximately $2.5 billion in annual revenue and 10,000 employees worldwide. Ms. Rast’s main personal focus geographies in 2012-2013 include the UK, UAE, Qatar, India, Singapore, Australia, Brazil and Argentina. Prior to this role, Ms. Rast served as President of CH2M HILL’s Facilities and Infrastructure Division, which included 7,000 employees and $2 billion in annual revenue in the global business lines of Transportation, Industrial & Advanced Technology, Operations & Maintenance, and Urban Programs.

Previously Ms. Rast oversaw the Major Programs group, overseeing the delivery of large engineering, construction, and operations programs worldwide, including the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Panama Canal Expansion, the Qatar 2022 World Cup, the Rio 2016 Olympics, and the MASDAR sustainable city in Abu Dhabi. Ms. Rast also concurrently served as Director of Mergers & Acquisitions, responsible for overseeing the firm’s acquisitive growth strategies worldwide. She was responsible for the acquisition of the $900 million revenue Halcrow Group, and its subsequent integration into CH2M HILL.

Prior to these positions, Ms. Rast oversaw the firm’s Center for Project Excellence, which ensures the development of the company’s innovative processes, tools, data, and standards for application to worldwide consulting, design, engineering, construction, operations, and management projects. She also served as CH2M HILL’s Senior Vice President for International Development. In that capacity she was responsible for development, capture, and mobilization of strategic opportunities internationally, such as the London 2012 Olympic Games, the Panama Canal Expansion, and the Mumbai International Airport Expansion.

From 1997 to 2001, Ms. Rast was the CEO of a management consulting firm that she founded, providing financial risk analysis services to government and industrial facility and infratructure owners. After selling that firm to engineering firm Earth Tech (a Tyco Company), she served on Earth Tech’s leadership team in operations and strategic development roles. Ms. Rast also previously worked for CH2M HILL for 10 years at the beginning of her career, where she held management, business development, operations and project engineering roles.

Ms. Rast serves on CH2M HILL’s Board of Directors and also serves on the Board of Directors of Catalyst Europe. At CH2M HILL she currently serves on the Board’s Governance Committee, and previously served on the Audit and Finance Committee, and chaired the Diversity Committee. She is also a member of the World Economic Forum Global Advisory Council on Infrastructure.

Ms. Rast has a bachelor’s degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. She is a registered professional engineer, and is accredited under the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Program.

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