Over the past year, I have been monitoring McLaren Software‘s gradual expansion of its AEC interests following its November 2011 acquisition and subsequent merger of SaaS collaboration specialist CTSpace with its engineering document management business, plus a more recent acquisition of a UK-based FM software business (post). The latest phase of its international strategy sees the opening of a new office in Perth, Western Australia, and the appointment of a new director to head up that unit.
Richard Beck, formerly head of information management at WorleyParsons and, before that, Vice-President of AVEVA’s VNET Business Unit, has 12 years mining and a further 12 years EPC industry experience – a background that will help him in the fast growing energy and natural resources sector in Australia, which is also being targeted by both indigenous suppliers and new entrants (post).
