HOUSTON, TX — The Oil, Gas & Chemical Group of Burns & McDonnell promotes five individuals to expand services and capabilities.

Andrew Becker has been promoted to Technical and Strategic Adviser for the Oil, Gas & Chemical Group, working to streamline the firm’s strategic focus for future growth. Becker will provide his technical, strategic, and market knowledge to the managing directors as well as other internal and external stakeholders. With almost 15 years of industry experience, Becker has provided insight across all oil, gas, and chemical market sectors.

Meaghan McCaffrey has been promoted to Managing Director of Renewables and Emerging Markets, spearheading the Oil, Gas, & Chemical Group’s focus on renewable solutions. She will lead the oil, gas, and chemical group in the growing renewables market. With almost 15 years of industry experience, McCaffrey focuses on identifying and proposing innovative renewable project solutions.

Kevin Syphard has been promoted to Managing Director of the Chemicals Market Sector, providing business and technical solutions to clients in the petrochemical and chemical markets. With more than 25 years of leadership experience for EPC chemical projects, Syphard's background spans refining, petrochemicals, specialty chemicals, and renewable energy markets, with a focus on technology transfer and early-phase project development.

Jason Hetherington has been promoted to Managing Director of Logistics and Midstream, where he will focus on expanding the firm’s midstream, logistics, and storage business. In this new role, he leads a team engaged in large-volume storage and transportation projects for petroleum-based products. Hetherington has more than 16 years of experience executing midstream, logistics, consumer products, and refining projects.

Dave Nispel has been promoted to Managing Director of Refining. Nispel will continue to help clients in the refining space incorporate margin enhancing and renewable solutions. With almost 30 years in the refining and chemical space, Nispel’s experience spans developing and building client relationships, strategic planning, business development, process engineering, and project management for projects in refining, chemicals, agribusiness, and food and consumer products projects.