Mike Dear serves as Chief Financial Officer and is based at UES’ Orlando headquarters. Mike is an experienced finance leader with more than 30 years of global expertise in engineering services and construction with both privately held and public organizations. Mike most recently served as Chief Financial Officer for PLH Group, a private equity-backed publicly-traded infrastructure construction group, where he significantly increased profitability, restructured and reduced debt, and administered a liquidity event for the founding shareholders.
Prior to that, he worked at John Wood Group, a publicly-traded global engineering and construction management firm. He served as CFO for Wood Group Mustang based in Houston, where he was responsible for worldwide financial, commercial, contracts and legal, IT, property and facility management activities. He previously worked as Group Financial Controller after initially joining as CFO of their Light Industrial Turbines Division. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program and is a Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA and CGMA).
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