Bentley Systems gets new COO from Google

US-based Bentley Systems, an infrastructure and engineering software company, has revealed James Lee – formerly of Google – as its newest chief operating officer (COO).

Bentley Systems executives and Year in Infrastructure (Image: Mitchell Keller) Bentley Systems executives talk to press during the company’s annual Year in Infrastructure conference held in Vancouver, Canada, in 2024. Pictured from left are chief marketing officer Kristin Fallon, former chief product officer Mike Campbell, chief technology officer Julien Moutte and CEO Nicholas Cumins. (Image: Mitchell Keller)

Lee previously served as general manager for startups and artificial intelligence (AI) at Google Cloud.

“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,” said the company.

Prior to joining Google in 2020, Lee spent 12 years at SAP, including as COO for SAP Ariba and Fieldglass, and as COO and general manager of Sales for SAP Greater China.

He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia.

Bentley CEO Nicholas Cumins said, “[Lee’s] 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.”

Alongside the move, the company announced the redundancy of the chief product officer (CPO) role.

James Lee, COO of Bentley Systems (Image courtesy Bentley Systems) James Lee (Image courtesy Bentley Systems)

“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,” said Bentley.

Former CPO Mike Campbell has left the company by mutual agreement, Bentley said.

“Streamlining our organisational 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,” noted Cumins. “Without a doubt, AI is our generation’s paradigm shift and has huge potential for improving infrastructure delivery and performance.”

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