ABM Appoints Richard Sykes as SVP and President - UK & Ireland

Richard Sykes has joined ABM from M Group Services as Senior Vice-President, and President for the United Kingdom and Ireland.

In his new role Sykes will lead the American multinatinal facility services provider's European business and growth strategy, expanding its integrated hard and soft services offering into new services and segments.

Formerly at ISS where he served as CEO for the UK and Ireland, before becoming Regional CEO for Western and then Northern Europe, Sykes began his career on a graduate training programme at Taylor Woodrow (then one of the UK's largest housebuilders) before gaining an MBA degree and being appointed as the director of the group's construction services devision.