Parsons promotes Thomas Topolski EVP, infrastructure business development

US engineering services firm Parsons has promoted Thomas Topolski executive vice president, infrastructure business development to help extend the company’s infrastructure portfolio while also leading proposal operations. In his new role, Topolski will be based at the company’s Centreville office in Virginia and report to Carey Smith, Parsons’ chief operating officer. Smith says Topolski has more than 30 years of experience in strategy, business development and operations for infrastructure companie
January 3, 2019 Read time: 2 mins

US engineering services firm Parsons has promoted Thomas Topolski executive vice president, infrastructure business development to help extend the company’s infrastructure portfolio while also leading proposal operations.

In his new role, Topolski will be based at the company’s Centreville office in Virginia and report to Carey Smith, Parsons’ chief operating officer.

Smith says Topolski has more than 30 years of experience in strategy, business development and operations for infrastructure companies.

“Over the course of his career, he has focused on emerging and disruptive events transforming the ways people and goods move from place to place,” Smith adds.

Topolski was previously senior vice president for rail & transit business development. Prior to that, he was executive vice president at Turner & Townsend North America, where he was responsible for the professional services firm’s infrastructure business in the US and Canada.

Topolski is a member of the International Road Federation’s board of directors and the American Institute of Certified Planners.

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