CDM Chairman and CEO Furman Announces Retirement
April 16, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS—On Tuesday, April 8, CDM Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Thomas D. Furman, Jr., P.E., BCEE, announced that he will be retiring at the end of 2008. CDM President Richard D. Fox, P.E., BCEE will take over as Chairman and CEO on January 1, 2009.
As CEO, Mr. Furman has led CDM through an unprecedented decade of growth in sales, services, and staff. He has been instrumental in crafting and implementing the firm's vision statement and strategic direction, as well as establishing a legacy of learning as a founder of CDM's internal university, which is accredited by the International Association of Continuing Education & Training.
Mr. Furman joined CDM in 1974 as a vice president when Ross Saarinen Bolton & Wilder, a Florida-based environmental engineering firm, merged with CDM. In 1989, he was promoted to chief operating officer and was elected president in 1991. He was named chief executive officer of the firm in 1998, in addition to his existing role as president. In April 1999, he added chairman of the board to his leadership responsibilities.
Mr. Fox has served as president of CDM since 2001. He has 33 years of experience in program management, environmental engineering, and labor relations. Career highlights include serving as director of the successful Boston Harbor cleanup project, program manager of the multi-faceted upgrade to 225-million-gallon-per-day (mgd) wastewater facilities system serving Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, and senior program management advisor to the Hong Kong Drainage Services Department on the $900 million effort to clean up Victoria Harbor with a new 410-mgd wastewater treatment works.