CH2M is pleased to announce that Susannah Kerr Adler has joined the practice, leading the transit team in the Americas in the areas of architecture and sustainability, with a primary focus on building the practice on the East Coast. In addition to her work with the CH2M team as a lead technologist she will also serve as the firm’s client manager for the Washington, DC, Department of Transportation.
Kerr Adler is a transportation services market leader with a track record of successfully developing and diversifying business lines, delivering results focused strategies and building, leading and growing high performance teams. She is also a recognized and visible leader with extensive professional and personal relationships in particular within the transit industry.
With more than 23 years of experience, she previously served in an executive role at SYSTRA; and was vice president at both Parsons Brinckerhoff and URS, leading sustainability, transit and rail, and architecture and building practices for the firms.
Kerr Adler is a member of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Board of Directors and chairs the Leadership APTA Program as well as the Sustainability Committee. She is a graduate of MIT, holding a bachelor of science, and master’s degrees in city planning and architecture.
Says Thomas Donahue, vice president and director of CH2M’s Rail and Transit Americas Group, “Susannah’s expertise and her industry network are important assets for CH2M in strengthening and expanding our East Coast capabilities and bringing high-quality delivery services and solutions for our transit and rail clients.”