Mark Garvey appointed as New CEO for M+W GROUP’S Asia-Pacific Region

Mark Garvey, 48, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region of the global engineering and Construction Company M+ W Group. Effective from 1st May, 2015 he will take over this role from Helmut Kurzboeck, who will pursue new opportunities outside M+W group.

Garvey will be responsible for the complete APAC-business of M+W Group, with about 2,600 employees in 10 countries (Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam). He was born in the United States and holds a Bachelor's degree from Drew University, Madison, New Jersey.

In the last 25 years Garvey was working with the engineering and construction company Foster Wheeler in various parts of the world, including 9 years of international assignments. In his latest assignment he was based in Houston, Texas, and responsible for the engineering and construction business of the company in the US and Latin America. Prior to that, he spent 6 years in Shanghai as CEO of Foster Wheeler's Power Group Asia. There he was responsible for the power business across the Asia region, including manufacturing locations in China and Thailand. Further to assignments in the corporate centre near New York City, his earlier experience also includes 3 years (1998 - 2001) in Singapore managing part of the Asian engineering and construction business.

Helmut Kurzboeck will leave M+W Group end of June 2015. M+W Group CEO Dr. Herbert Demel expressed his thanks for Kurzboeck's dedication to M+W Group over the past decades: "Helmut Kurzboeck has certainly contributed to our company's overall success in Asia and beyond." In the APAC-region M+W Group is one of the leading global players in the field of high-tech engineering and construction, with more than 25 years of project experience in Asia. Customers come from many industries including semiconductors, flat panel displays, photovoltaic, life science, chemicals, energy, infrastructure, science & research.