John Freeman
Engineering company McDermott International has hired John Freeman as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, effective August 14.
Freeman succeeds Liane Hinrichs, who McDermott says has announced her intention to retire from the company at the end of the year. He joined McDermott from TechnipFMC, where he was most recently special adviser to the integration of Technip and FMC. The merger was completed in January of this year. A TechnipFMC spokesperson declined to comment.
Before the merger of Technip and FMC, Freeman was group (corporate) general counsel for Technip, based in Paris, where he had responsibility for the company’s legal and compliance matters globally. Earlier in his career, he held a number of different legal and compliance positions with Baker Hughes.
McDermott describes itself as a leading provider of integrated engineering, procurement, construction and installation services for upstream field developments worldwide.
‘The company is grateful for Liane's contributions to McDermott over the past 18 years, and her leadership of the company's legal group. We extend our best wishes to Liane for the future,’ president and CEO David Dickson says in a statement. ‘As McDermott continues to grow, John's versatility and global experience in our industry will be of particular benefit to the company. I am looking forward to working closely with him.’
Ben Maiden
Ben Maiden is the editor-at-large of Governance Intelligence, an IR Media publication, having joined the company in December 2016. He is based in New York. Ben was previously managing editor of Compliance Reporter, covering regulatory and compliance...
