OVERLAND PARK, KS — Black & Veatch announces that Ashley Davidson has joined the company as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) to streamline how the company’s clients make their best-informed capital investment decisions in sustainable infrastructure and rely on their partnerships with Black & Veatch for innovative engineering and construction solutions.

In her role, Davidson will spearhead the company’s global marketing strategy with responsibility for amplifying the Black & Veatch brand. She will support commercial growth and client engagement through omnichannel marketing to create a consistent brand experience for clients across multiple industries.

“Ashley brings a new level of enterprise marketing excellence, leadership, and passion to connect with and guide our clients with proven ways to deal with the world’s macro issues of energy resiliency, abundant water, clean transportation, and expanding AI cloud compute capacity to help us grow around the world,” said Patrick Hogan, Black & Veatch Chief Client Officer and Enterprise Evolution Leader. “We’re looking to Ashley to raise the bar on data-driven, performance marketing with the targeted content and thought leadership to support the next generation of infrastructure operators and investors.”

Davidson most recently served as Vice President and Head of Global Marketing at Royal Philips, an $18 billion Dutch multinational company, with responsibilities of marketing for its global portfolio of emerging technology, health care, and sustainability solutions powered by data science and artificial intelligence. Prior to that, she held marketing executive roles of increasing responsibility at Cerner Corporation (now Oracle Health) for 22 years, most recently serving as its Vice President, Integrated Marketing and Client Experiences.

Davidson earned a Master of Science in integrated marketing communications from The University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, and a Bachelor of Arts in English and Bachelor of Science in public relations from William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri.

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Davidson will report to Hogan and will be based in Overland Park, Kansas.