Delivering Success
Celebrating the People Behind the Projects
Every day, our people are doing great things that matter to the rest of the world, developing and delivering solutions that help our customers accomplish their most critical objectives. But without talented and dedicated business development expertise, we wouldn’t have the access we need to take those solutions to market, or opportunities to take our business further.
We’re proud to feature just a few of those global team members who — despite a pandemic, global shutdowns and the rise of virtual working — have continued helping us win work and enabling us to deliver solutions that are changing the world while maintaining a continual appetite for professional growth.
We also thank and acknowledge all of those not listed here who are helping us deliver on our mission and execute with excellence.
Paul Whitcombe
Business Development Director, Government Solutions International (GSI)
Projects – Ascent Flight Training
A close, trusted client of Harmonic’s for several years, Ascent Flight Training delivers flight training to the UK Ministry of Defence with work focused on change planning and data analysis. The biggest current program is a full end-to-end plan for Ascent's flight training delivery that integrates multiple parts of the organization, including finance, operations and human resources.
Paul’s role is to build confidence in Harmonic’s delivery. He facilitates the link between the team and their customers, and his unique understanding of the customer’s problems enables the team to design a bespoke solution. Paul also oversees the people in the Harmonic delivery team, supporting their exceptional delivery to the customer.
YoungKyu Park
Sales and Business Development, Sustainable Technology Solutions (STS)
Projects – Energy Transition and Plastic Recycling
YoungKyu is responsible for sales and business development supporting KBR’s energy transition initiatives, specifically for blue and green ammonia and hydrogen and Hydro-PRT®, KBR’s breakthrough plastics recycling technology, in Korea, where three projects have been awarded recently.
He sites his excellent team members — experts who work together to change the world through leading-edge technologies — and the thrill of introducing niche technologies to the market as the things that keep him excited about KBR.
YoungKyu Park began his career as a process simulation engineer in 1996 and joined KBR in 2019 as a process engineer at KBR’s Korea Olefins Technology Center (KOTC). Following a slew of interesting sales support activities, he switched to his current role in sales in February 2020.
Suzanne Cathro
KBR Head of Social Value, GSI
Projects – Social Value for KBR
In February 2020, Suzanne Cathro took on the role of dedicated head of Social Value within Government Solutions EMEA (Europe the Middle East and Africa). In her role, Suzanne is responsible for developing KBR’s social, economic and environmental social value offering through our projects and corporate activity.
KBR is a proud supporter of social value, a corporate member of Social Value UK, and has met all requirements for delivering social value on UK-based projects.
Suzanne has been with KBR for over six years, working at both a corporate level and embedded within our projects, to ensure our ongoing innovation in social value.
David Ribeiro
Vice President, Global Business Development, STS
Projects – Technology-Led Industrial Solutions Projects
Based in Dubai, David Ribeiro, vice president of Global Business Development for KBR's Technology-Led Industrial Solutions (TLIS) business, is responsible for driving KBR business growth and customer engagement globally. He has worked with KBR for nearly nine years but brings approximately 20 years of energy sector experience — including in refining, petrochemicals and renewable energy — to TLIS.
He does this by supporting customers with a suite of industrial, operational technology and digital transformation solutions (including advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning applications), helping to capture value through improved industrial asset performance. He is also KBR’s global account manager for various Middle Eastern national oil companies, including Saudi Aramco and SABIC.
David began his career in South Africa as a mechanical engineer and has worked in various technical, project management and commercial roles for some of the industry’s leading engineering contractors.
Tim Myall
Senior Business Manager, Frazer-Nash–GSI
Projects – Future Mobility
Passenger and freight travel are experiencing significant challenges created by rapidly changing technology, industry efforts to decarbonize and become net zero, and the need to meet customer expectations while on a tight budget. However, these challenges also represent significant opportunity for our business. Enter Tim Myall.
Tim is a chartered aerospace engineer who has worked with Frazer-Nash for 14 years. Tim is responsible for what is known as future mobility work, which spans civil aerospace and aviation, highways, and, of course, the rail sector.
Tim collaborates with technical specialists from across Frazer-Nash, drawing on their skills in systems engineering, safety assurance, drone integration, technology evaluation, cyber security and technical analysis to deliver leading future mobility projects that support our clients.
Edward (Ted) Kromer
Senior Field Engineer, GS U.S.
Project – United States Geological Survey
In August 2022, KBR won a $20m contract with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory (ASL) for sustained support of more than 330 operational or proposed stations in 69 countries, including approximately 230 stations in the continental U.S.
Ted, who has worked for KBR for 22 years, keeps the USGS Global Seismographic Network (GSN) operating. The GSN is a permanent digital network of more than 150 seismographic stations in over 80 countries, from the South Pole to Siberia and from the Pacific basin to the southern tip of Africa.
Over his 22 years working at the ASL, Ted has visited all seven continents and over 30 countries and says: “The most rewarding part of my job is experiencing cultural diversity in remote parts of the globe.”
