10 Jacobs executives
The chief financial officer, presidents and executive and senior vice presidents on this page are Jacobs executives over global operations, named business units, regions and growth functions. A reader can learn how executives lead Jacobs from people who have held the role.
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Eva Wood
LinkedInExperience: Executive Vice President | General Manager | Buildings and Infrastructure Americas | West · Jacobs
Eva Wood has been Executive Vice President | General Manager | Buildings and Infrastructure Americas | West at Jacobs since January 2025. Wood also holds the Jacobs rows Vice President | General Manager | Australia and New Zealand (since July 2023) and Vice President | Executive Director of Operations (since January 2021).
Jennifer House
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President, Growth and Sales, Global Federal & Environment · Jacobs
Jennifer House has been Senior Vice President, Growth and Sales, Global Federal & Environment at Jacobs since January 2025, and the profile says House leads market development for the Global Federal and Environmental Solutions business unit. At Jacobs House was also Vice President, People & Places Solutions, Geographic Operations Manager (2020 to 2023).
Keith Lawson
LinkedInExperience: Executive Vice President · Jacobs
Keith Lawson has been Executive Vice President at Jacobs since January 2025. At Jacobs Lawson was also Senior Vice President Europe, Asia Pacific & Middle East (2022 to 2025), Senior Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific and Middle East (2021 to 2024), where the profile says Lawson led the People & Places Solutions line of business across the region, and Vice President & Regional Director - Asia (2018 to 2021).
Kelly Maslin
LinkedInExperience: EVP International Growth and Sales · Jacobs
Kelly Maslin has been EVP International Growth and Sales at Jacobs since October 2025. At Jacobs Maslin was also SVP APAC and ME, Growth and Sales (January to October 2025), VP APAC and ME, Growth and Sales (2021 to 2025) and Vice President and Executive Director of Operations, People & Place Solutions, Delivery, NZ & SEAus (2014 to 2021).
Patrick Hill
LinkedInExperience: Executive Vice President | President - Global Operations · Jacobs
Patrick Hill has been Executive Vice President | President - Global Operations at Jacobs since December 2023. At Jacobs Hill was also Executive Vice President | President - People & Places Solutions (2021 to 2023), Executive Vice President - People & Places Solutions (2020 to 2021) and Senior Vice President - People & Places Solutions (International - EMEA & APAC) (2019 to 2020).
Rhianna Rose MEng CEng FICE
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President and Executive Director of Operations - Canada · Jacobs
Rhianna Rose has been Senior Vice President and Executive Director of Operations - Canada at Jacobs since February 2026. At Jacobs Rose was also Head of Design and Build for Water & Environment Europe (2025 to 2026), Head of Operations Cities And Places Europe (2024 to 2025) and Senior Director, Head of Commercial Delivery, Water & Environment Europe (2021 to 2023).
Sean Sommer
LinkedInExperience: Executive Vice President, Advanced Facilities · Jacobs
Sean Sommer has been Executive Vice President, Advanced Facilities at Jacobs since October 2025, and the profile describes Sommer as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Advanced Facilities business unit. Sommer was also Vice President Advanced Facilities at Jacobs from 2017 to 2025.
Shannon Miller
LinkedInExperience: President - Strategy, Growth & Digital · Jacobs
Shannon Miller has been President - Strategy, Growth & Digital at Jacobs since September 2024, and the profile says Miller leads global business development, corporate strategy and digital transformation there. At Jacobs Miller was also Executive Vice President, President of Divergent Solutions (2022 to 2024) and Executive Vice President, Chief Growth Officer (July to October 2022).
Susannah Kerr, AIA
LinkedInExperience: Executive Vice President, Global Director- National Security & Defense · Jacobs
Susannah Kerr has been Executive Vice President, Global Director- National Security & Defense at Jacobs since October 2025. At Jacobs Kerr was also Executive Vice President, General Manger- Federal & Environment (January to October 2025), Senior Vice President & General Manager, Federal & Environmental Solutions (2023 to 2025) and Vice President- Federal Operations Manager (2016 to 2023).
Venk Nathamuni
LinkedInExperience: Executive Vice President and CFO · Jacobs
Venk Nathamuni has been Executive Vice President and CFO at Jacobs since June 2024 and a Board and Audit Committee Member at Synaptics Incorporated since January 2026. Nathamuni's other roles shown include Chief Financial Officer at Cirrus Logic (2022 to 2024) and Head of Corporate Finance, M&A, IR, IT at Arista Networks (2021 to 2022).
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