ABM Industries Names Scott Salmirs CEO

(RTTNews) - ABM Industries Inc. (ABM) said Monday that its board of directors has named executive vice president Scott Salmirs to succeed current president and chief executive officer Henrik Slipsager, effective March 31.

Salmirs, 52, has been appointed to the ABM board of directors effective immediately.

While Slipsager has agreed to stay on in a consulting role with ABM following the transition through September 30, his term on the board will end on March 4 at the company's Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

Salmirs joined the company in 2003 and currently serves as executive vice president of ABM and has global responsibility for ABM's aviation division and all international activities. Until December 2014, Salmirs led ABM's Onsite services division focused on the Northeast. Prior to ABM, Salmirs was a senior vice president at Lehman Brothers responsible for their North American Facilities Group. He previously served in leadership positions in the Facilities Groups at Goldman Sachs and CBRE.