Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced the appointment of James Lee as Chief Operating Officer. Lee joins Bentley from Google, where he served as General Manager for startups and artificial intelligence at Google Cloud. Prior to joining Google in 2020, Lee spent 12 years at SAP, including as Chief Operating Officer for SAP Ariba and Fieldglass, and as Chief Operating Officer and General Manager of Sales for SAP Greater China.
He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia, and is based in the Pacific Northwest. Lee will strengthen Bentley?s cross-functional alignment across planning and execution, will drive operational excellence, and will oversee China, Japan, and portfolio development including growth initiatives such as Bentley Asset Analytics. To accelerate innovation and better align product execution with technology strategy, Bentley also announced that the responsibility for product development has been consolidated under Chief Technology Officer Julien Moutte.
As a result, the Chief Product Officer role has become redundant, and by mutual agreement Mike Campbell will leave the company. Reporting to Cumins, alongside Lee and Moutte, are Chief Revenue Officer Brock Ballard, corporate functions including Marketing, Finance, Legal, and Colleague Success, as well as Seequent, Bentley?s subsurface company.