ASSENT is pleased to introduce Mr. Karl Roberts as Chief Business Development Advisor for their North America Operations
ASSENT, a market leader in the manufacture of hot-rolled structural steel structures, pre-engineered buildings, cold form cladding & decking, is pleased to announce that it has retained Mr. Karl Roberts as Chief Business Development Advisor for their North America operations.
Mr. Karl Roberts is an established global senior executive with over 35 years of EPCI experience within the Energy, Infrastructure, Power, Life Sciences and Government market sectors, with a proven track record delivering significant business growth. He has held senior executive management roles both domestically and internationally in operations, business development, corporate strategy, and risk management, including CEO, CBDO, EVP, Business Unit President with world leading General Contracting Companies, including KBR, Lamprell Energy and IMCC Investment LLC.
Niall O’Connell, Managing Director, ASSENT, commented:
“On behalf of ASSENT, I would like to welcome Mr. Roberts’ into the Group and I look forward to working closely with him. I am confident that Mr. Roberts’ wealth of experience in business development will help position ASSENT in its strategic aspiration to establish an office in Houston, Texas, USA and become a leading supplier of fabricated steel products for the North American market from our base here in Dubai, UAE. ASSENT’s products are in demand in many parts of the globe, and we have a differentiated delivery model and lower cost to similar products manufactured in Asia and neighboring competitors”.
ASSENT is a subsidiary of the market leading vertically integrated construction conglomerate, ASGC Group which employs more than 18,000 personnel and has a portfolio of iconic mega projects executed in the GCC region, Africa, and UK. ASSENT is an Internationally recognized leader in the manufacture of hot-rolled structural steel structures, pre-engineered buildings, cold form cladding & decking that can produce 130,000 tons per year of fabricated steel products for diverse projects in the Energy, Industrial & Manufacturing, Infrastructure, Mining & Metals, and Building’s market sectors.
ASSENT has a factory size of 2.7million square feet including a 1.1million square feet fully covered state-of-the-art manufacturing facility located in Dubai, UAE, that is equipped with the GCC region’s largest single collection of advanced steel fabrication equipment capable of delivering competitively priced products on a worldwide basis to the highest international QHSE standards. ASSENT self-performs most of its services with its highly skilled workforce of 1,250 employees.