About
Charlie Hocking founded CSH Strategies, LLC in 2022 to provide executive management and strategy consulting services to professional and technical service companies in the engineering and infrastructure industry. The objective of these services is to help CSH Strategies' clients develop a vision and corporate strategy that will create and realize value for their stakeholders that is inclusive of organic growth, acquisitive growth, margin improvement, and competitive differentiation.
Charlie provides these executive management and strategy consulting services as either a consultant or as an Independent Director. Charlie's active engagements include:
Independent Director for Consor Engineers, which is a transportation and water engineering portfolio company of New Mountain Capital that can tacle every need across the lifecycle of transportation and water infrastructure projects including advisory, planning, design, program management, and construction management.
Independent Director for Azuria Water Solutions, which is a water infrastructure portfolio company of New Mountain Capital that is the industry's leading trenchless technology solutions provider. Aegion's mission is to strengthen and protect drinking water, wastewater and stormwater pipelines that serve communities throughout North America.
Independent Director for Inframark, which is a water/wastewater infrastructure and community management portfolio company of New Mountain Capital that provides technology-enabled solutions to both public and private clients throughout North America in the areas of operations and maintenance, automation and intelligence, utility management, and community management.
Strategic Advisor for Transcend whose mission is to transform the way asset owners, technology suppliers and engineering firms assess and design critical infrastructure. To accomplish that mission, Transcend has developed the Transcend Design Generator (TDG) platform to accelerate the design and construction of innovative and sustainable critical infrastructure.
Executive Advisor for Brown and Caldwell which is a privately-held, 100 percent environmental firm that is the largest engineering consulting firm solely focused on the U.S. water and environmental sectors.
Charlie's prior engagements include:
Independent Director for CHA Consulting, Inc. which is an innovative, full-service engineering consulting and construction management portfolio company of First Reserve that delivers sustainable, integrated solutions to the world's most challenging infrastructure projects.
Prior to founding his own company, Charlie spent nearly 25 years with Hazen and Sawyer including six years as the company’s Director of Strategic Planning and then over ten years as the company’s President, CEO, and Chairman. Under Charlie’s leadership, Hazen and Sawyer was transformed into a national leader in water engineering with over 1,300 employees in 51 offices generating more than $300 million in gross revenue. Charlie accomplished this by leading the development and implementation of a corporate strategy that resulted in significant value creation through geographic growth, service line growth, direct and indirect cost efficiencies, and competitive differentiation. During his tenure as CEO, Hazen and Sawyer's revenues doubled, earnings tripled, pre-bonus profit margins increased by 50%, and voluntary turnover was maintained at industry leading low single digits. All of this was achieved in a tenure that was book ended by both the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic – two extremely disruptive events that the company overcame and prospered through Charlie’s leadership.
If you desire to create and realize value for your company's stakeholders and are considering ways to improve your current trajectory, CSH Strategies can help.