James Lee transitions from Google, where he oversaw startups and AI operations
Bentley Systems has announced the selection of James Lee as chief operating officer. Lee transitions from Google, where he held the position of General Manager overseeing startups and artificial intelligence operations at Google Cloud.
Before his tenure at Google, Lee dedicated 12 years at SAP, serving in roles including chief operating officer for SAP Ariba and Fieldglass, alongside chief operating officer and general manager of sales for SAP Greater China.
Lee will enhance Bentley’s cross-functional coordination across planning and implementation, will champion operations, and will supervise operations in China, Japan, and portfolio advancement including growth ventures such as Bentley Asset Analytics.
Bentley System’s CEO Nicholas Cumins remarked, ““I am excited to welcome James, a world-class operational leader, to Bentley. His 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.”
To boost innovation and strengthen alignment between product execution and technology strategy, Bentley has also declared that product development responsibilities have been unified under chief technology officer Julien Moutte. Consequently, the chief product officer position has been removed, and through mutual understanding Mike Campbell will depart the organisation.
Cumins explained, “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. Without a doubt, AI is our generation’s paradigm shift and has huge potential for improving infrastructure delivery and performance.”
Caption: James Lee, Bentley Systems COO
