ST Engineering announced its appointment of Timothy (Tim) J. McBride as President of ST Engineering North America Inc., its U.S. headquarters in Alexandria, VA, effective November 1, 2021. ST Engineering has been operating in the U.S. since 2001, with major operations in 16 cities in 12 states, and employing about 5,000 people. In early October 2021, the Group announced the $2.68 billion proposed acquisition of TransCore, further reinforcing the U.S. as a key growth market. Tim joins the Group from Raytheon Technologies, where he was Senior Vice President of Global Government Relations, responsible for developing and executing advocacy strategies as well as advancing the company?s global business interests. Prior to that, he was the Senior Vice President of Government Relations for United Technologies (UTC), where he was involved in supporting the company?s commercial businesses and securing U.S. federal defense appropriations for the F-35 programme and many other defense programmes in which UTC was a participant. Tim began his Washington career in the White House as a Special Assistant to Vice President (and later President) George H.W. Bush. Timothy graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a Bachelor?s degree in Business Administration.