Bentley Systems, a leading infrastructure engineering software company, has appointed James Lee as its Chief Operating Officer. Lee brings extensive experience from Google, where he served as General Manager for startups and artificial intelligence at Google Cloud. Before Google, Lee spent 12 years at SAP, holding roles such as Chief Operating Officer for SAP Ariba and Fieldglass, and COO and General Manager of Sales for SAP Greater China. He holds an MBA from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia. Lee will be based in the Pacific Northwest.
Lee will strengthen Bentley’s cross-functional alignment across planning and execution, will drive operational excellence, and will oversee China, Japan, and portfolio development including growth initiatives such as Bentley Asset Analytics.
Nicholas Cumins said, “I am excited to welcome James, a world-class operational leader, to Bentley. His energy and experience managing operations and investment initiatives at SAP and Google will be instrumental to Bentley as we continue to scale up and drive our ambitious growth agenda”.
To accelerate innovation and better align product execution with technology strategy, Bentley also announced that the responsibility for product development has been consolidated under Chief Technology Officer Julien Moutte. As a result, the Chief Product Officer role has become redundant, and by mutual agreement Mike Campbell will leave the company.
“I would like to thank Mike for his leadership and many accomplishments as Chief Product Officer during the last two years, and wish him much success in his future endeavors”, Cumins added.
“Streamlining our organizational reporting structure and consolidating product development under Julien puts us in a stronger position to capture the many growth opportunities that we have opened up with infrastructure AI and that are incremental to our core business and consistent momentum. Without a doubt, AI is our generation’s paradigm shift and has huge potential for improving infrastructure delivery and performance”.
Reporting to Cumins, alongside Lee and Moutte, are Chief Revenue Officer Brock Ballard, as well as corporate functions such as Marketing, Finance, Legal, and Colleague Success, along with Seequent, Bentley's subsurface division.