Richard Sheehy
Director, Advanced Planning and Site Selection
CH2M HILL Industrial and Advanced Technology
Richard Sheehy has more than 29 years of site evaluation and selection experience, including 26 years with Jacobs/CH2M HILL as director of Advanced Planning and Site Selection. Site evaluation expertise includes semiconductor; advanced technology manufacturing; solar/PV and data centers. He has served both as a private industry consultant in real estate development and as an economic development public official with the state of Oregon.
Sheehy has also held economic development positions with the Portland Development Commission and the Oregon Economic Development Department (OEDD), where he used his knowledge of industrial development and marketing to recruit world-class manufacturers to Oregon. On behalf of the OEDD, he worked with Fujitsu Microelectronics, Hewlett-Packard, Hyundai Electronics, Integrated Device Technology, Nypro, Samsung Semiconductor, Sony Disc Manufacturing, Symantec, and Tokyo Electron America.