Asset integrity services provider EM&I has appointed Pat Lawless as CEO of the EM&I Group.

Lawless has been with the company nearly five years through his role as COO and takes over from Danny Constantinis who heads up the board as executive chairman.

In a recent statement, Constantinis, who is also the founder of the EM&I Group, said, “EM&I has always been a leader in the field of asset integrity and as we continue pioneering developments in digitization and robotics I am confident that this is the right time to hand over the day to day management to a new and highly experienced CEO and his newly formed Leadership Team. We have been planning this move for some time which will enable me to focus on strategic growth and key relationships with clients, regulators, Joint Industry Projects (JIPs) and Joint Venture (JV) partners."