CECO Environmental Corp. announced Lynn Watkins-Asiyanbi has joined CECO as its new Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Watkins will lead the overall legal strategy for CECO, manage SEC regulatory compliance, work across various functional and business leaders to support the overall strategic growth plan, and support the Board of Directors as corporate secretary.

With nearly 20 years of legal experience, both in private practice and with global industrial companies, such as John Bean Technologies, W.W. Grainger Inc. and U.S. Foods Inc. Watkins brings a multitude of experience and skills, particularly with mergers and acquisitions, ethics, corporate governance, CSR and ESG, and financial and regulatory compliance. Watkins earned a joint J.D. and MBA from the Pritzker School of Law at Northwestern University and the Kellogg School of Management, and was selected, upon graduation, for Cargill's MBA Leadership Development program. Lynn earned her undergraduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Chemical Engineering and Economics.