Michael A. Lucki, chief financial officer of CH2M Hill Cos. Ltd. since late 2010, has left the global engineering company, a spokesperson has confirmed.<br /><br />The Douglas County-based company has not publicly announced Lucki's departure, which was effective Jan. 31. It comes a few weeks after Jacqueline Hinman became president and CEO.<br /><br />A spokesperson offered no explanation and Lucki could not be reached.<br /><br />JoAnne Shea was named interim CFO. Shea held the interim position prior to Lucki's hiring, a spokesperson said.<br /><br />There have been changes at CH2M Hill in recent weeks after Hinman became CEO Jan. 1. At the end of January, Hinman announced plans to combine divisions to streamline the company’s operations.<br /><br />CH2M Hill, a privately held, employee-owned company, had $7 billion in revenue in 2012 and has 28,000 employees around the world.<br /><br />In September 2010, when CH2M Hill announced Lucki’s appointment as CFO, the company called him a seasoned veteran with "more than 30 years of global public accounting experience with engineering and construction companies."<br /><br />Prior to CH2M Hill, Lucki worked for Ernst & Young LLP where he was a partner and led the consulting firm’s Global Engineering and Construction Industry Practice and then its Global Infrastructure Practice.<br /><br />According to CH2M Hill’s announcement in 2010, Lucki was responsible for its oversight and leadership of the day-to-day global financial for the firm including financial reporting, accounting, corporate finance, taxation, and information technology. He also was to be a player in the company's mergers and acquisitions program.<br /><br />Lucki was part of a May 2013 story in the Denver Business Journal about the importance of CFOs for companies looking at complex mergers and acquisitions.<br /><br />“It’s like dating,” Lucki said in the story, of the need to research an acquisition target to make sure it’s a good fit for the acquirer and of the importance of planning how to integrate employees of the newly purchased company.<br /><br />“A lot of M&A strategy is developing a relationship before the actual marriage starts,” he said.<br /><br />Lucki worked on two big acquisitions for CH2M Hill during his tenure.<br /><br />The Colorado company acquired McLean, Va.-based transportation consultant Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.’s state and local transportation business for $28.5 million cash in mid-2011. The merger brought new expertise in rail transportation and mass transit to CH2M Hill, Lucki told the DBJ.<br /><br />He also was involved with CH2M Hill’s late-2011, $356 million purchase, including cash and assumed debt, of British engineering firm Halcrow Group Ltd. Lucki said Halcrow appealed to CH2M Hill due to its geographic assets in the United Kingdom and Middle East.