Leadership Team

Executive Leadership Team

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Des Bell

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
 
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Jason Leong

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
 
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Andrew Philip

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT
TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE
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Adam Bosek

VICE PRESIDENT
INDUSTRIAL & MANUFACTURING
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Bojan Bogdanovic

VICE PRESIDENT
ENERGY & UTILITIES
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Chris Swail

VICE PRESIDENT
BUILDINGS & FACILITIES
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Candice Foster

VICE PRESIDENT
PEOPLE & CULTURE
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Sandra D'Alessandro

DIRECTOR
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
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Hugo Blasutta

SENIOR ADVISOR
 
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Senior Leadership Team

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Elie Dagher

VICE PRESIDENT,
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
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Silvano Florindi

VICE PRESIDENT,
TRANSIT
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Houtan Seirafian

VICE PRESIDENT,
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
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Jason Claxton

CHAIR, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

As Comtech's founder and Chair of the Board of Directors, Jason Claxton establishes the overall vision and direction of the firm, ensuring Comtech moves toward achieving its strategic goals. Jason is a Professional Engineer with over 25 years of demonstrated experience in integrated project delivery, executive leadership, and business planning and development. Under his governance, Comtech continues to grow as the preeminent provider of program management and advisory services in North America.

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Des Bell

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Des Bell is a seasoned industry leader who provides executive oversight to the business. He has a record of driving growth, efficiency and financial excellence in operationally intensive businesses, spanning from public utilities to privately held professional engineering firms. Through his tenure in the industry, he has fostered and led significant enterprise transformations and managed major programs and enterprise risk. Notable accomplishments include leading the development of an electric utility national transportation electrification strategy with the White House and other federal agencies and spearheading one of the largest environmental remediation efforts in the United States.

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Hugo Blasutta

SENIOR ADVISOR

Hugo Blasutta provides counsel to the Executive Leadership Team. With 45 years of experience in the Canadian and international consulting services industry, Hugo has a comprehensive background in strategic planning, corporate development, business development, risk management, corporate compliance and operational management. Formerly serving as the President and CEO of Comtech Group, he brings a wealth of leadership experience. Hugo holds the Institute of Corporate Directors' ICD.D designation and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario.

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Jason Leong

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Jason Leong leads finance, innovation and risk management at Comtech, and oversees other critical business functions such as information technology, real estate and strategic planning. He has over 20 years of experience as a finance executive and business partner across several industry sectors. A Chartered Professional Accountant, Jason excels at leading transformational change and collaboration, enabling organizational efficiencies and optimized performance.

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Andrew Philip

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE

Andrew Philip leads Comtech's Transportation and Infrastructure Business Line providing integrated program management, program controls, technical advisory and project management services to public sector transportation clients. Andrew is a Professional Engineer with over 35 years of experience in the consulting engineering industry helping clients plan, design, construct and manage complex infrastructure programs and projects.

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Adam Bosek

VICE PRESIDENT, INDUSTRIAL & MANUFACTURING

Adam Bosek leads Comtech's Industrial and Manufacturing Business Line. With over 30 years of experience, Adam has managed and implemented multi-million dollar projects at high-volume manufacturing facilities across North America. Excited for the future of manufacturing and the technology improvements evolving today, Adam helps clients increase manufacturing efficiencies and production outputs.

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Bojan Bogdanovic

VICE PRESIDENT, ENERGY & UTILITIES

Bojan Bogdanovic is an Energy and Utilities business line leader, and specializes in project delivery, supply chain management and engineering in the nuclear and mining sectors. Bojan's expertise spans operations, business development and project delivery. He has successfully led various business endeavors and strategies, including the execution of multifaceted EPC projects, commercial management and contract negotiations, and key client management.

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Chris Swail

VICE PRESIDENT, BUILDINGS & FACILITIES

Chris Swail leads our Buildings and Facilities Business Line working with public and private sector clients throughout Canada and the United States on project development and delivery, including public-private partnership (P3). Based in Ottawa, Chris has more than 20 years of experience leading teams to develop, integrate and achieve program and project delivery success. He also leads Comtech's growth in Ottawa and Eastern Canada.

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Candice Foster

VICE PRESIDENT, PEOPLE & CULTURE

Candice Foster leads People and Culture at Comtech, overseeing all human resources, employee development and environment, health and safety programs, as well as key change management initiatives. Candice has over 25 years of leadership experience in almost every organizational department, helping lead organizations through efficiency and change initiatives. She holds a Masters of Business Administration from Schulich School of Business.

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Sandra D'Alessandro

DIRECTOR, MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Sandra D'Alessandro leads Marketing and Communications at Comtech Group. She has over 15 years of experience within the AEC industry specializing in branding, marketing, corporate communication and business development. Sandra excels at formulating and implementing integrated marketing plans and building brand awareness, pushing Comtech's plans for growth throughout North America forward.

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Elie Dagher

VICE PRESIDENT, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Elie Dagher is a leader in our Transportation and Infrastructure group focused on delivering technical advisory, engineering and project management services to our clients. He also leads Comtech’s business development efforts in the United States. Elie is a Professional Engineer and certified Project Management Professional.

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Silvano Florindi

VICE PRESIDENT, TRANSIT

Silvano Florindi is responsible for Comtech’s transit advisory and project management business, supporting Comtech’s clients on some of the most complex transit projects in North America. Silvano has more than 30 years of experience delivering transit projects through all lifecycle phases, including early planning stages, design, environmental assessment, procurement, construction, commissioning, and final acceptance and handover to clients. Silvano is a Professional Engineer and a member of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering.

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Houtan Seirafian

VICE PRESIDENT, PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

Houtan Seirafian leads Comtech’s program management and program controls business, delivering complex capital infrastructure programs using integrated digital solutions and advanced program management processes and techniques. A certified Project Management Professional, Houtan has over 25 years of experience in program and project management, project controls and business information system implementation and management, and project controls for high-value infrastructure projects up to $50 billion in capital value.

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Charles Wheeler

SENIOR ADVISOR, TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE

Charles Wheeler has 38 years of experience managing large, complex, urban transit infrastructure and rapid transit projects. His portfolio of work includes TTC’s Transit City Light Rail Program, the Spadina Subway Extension, Scarborough Subway Extension (SSE), and Yonge North Subway Extension (YNSE); as well as York Region vivaNext BRT and the City of Ottawa Light Rail Transit (OLRT) Programs. As a Senior Advisor to Comtech, Charles provides technical expertise and thought leadership to clients, staff and industry peers.

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Kishan Dhanjal

DIRECTOR, PROJECT PURSUITS

Kishan Dhanjal leads the Project Pursuits team for Comtech's various market sectors throughout North America. Through his leadership, he and his team support Comtech's Business Lines with market intel, opportunity mining and management, partnership development, and pursuit stage management services. Kishan is a certified Project Management Professional.

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Amanda Hurley

DIRECTOR, PROJECT RESOURCING

Amanda Hurley leads Project Resourcing and Talent Acquisition for Comtech's key market sectors throughout North America. Since joining Comtech in 2008, Amanda has continued to build and enhance our talent acquisition strategies to support continued growth and attract industry-leading teams to effectively support our clients in delivering their capital programs and projects.

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Pasha Mohsenin

DIRECTOR, PROJECT CONTROLS

Pasha is responsible for sustaining and expanding high-quality project control services provided to Comtech's clients across all key market sectors, with a specific focus on our Energy and Utilities Business Line. Pasha is a certified Project Management Professional with over 25 years of experience specializing in program and portfolio management, strategic advisory, program/project control, and PMIS tools.