TUTOR PERINI CORPORATION - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Corporate Secretary
- Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
- Executive Vice President, Tax, Treasurer, and Corporate Secretary
- Executive Vice President, Treasurer, Corporate Secretary and Clerk and Tax
Anthony C. Fiore has served as Executive Vice President, Tax, Treasurer, and Corporate Secretary of Tutor Perini Corporation since January 2020. Mr. Fiore is a finance leader and Certified Public Accountant with 31 years of global finance experience working for multinational publicly held companies spanning various industries. He has served in leadership roles in global tax, treasury, internal audit and corporate restructuring, as well as insurance, claims and risk management. Most recently, he served as Chief Tax Officer at XPO Logistics. Prior to that, Mr. Fiore served as Senior Vice President, Global Tax, Insurance and Risk Management at The Hertz Corporation for nearly a decade. He began his career in the tax practice of Arthur Andersen & Co. in New York City. Mr. Fiore holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting from Hofstra University and a Master of Science degree in Taxation from Fordham University.
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- Vice President of Operations / Fisk Electric Company
- VICE PRESIDENT, OPERATIONS / Desert Mechanical, Inc.
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- President
- President / Perini Management Services, Inc.
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- Director
- Member of the Board of Directors
Dale Anne Reiss has served as a director since May 2014. Ms. Reiss served as Senior Partner at Ernst & Young LLP, and its predecessor Kenneth Leventhal & Company, for over 25 years, where she was the Global and the Americas Director of Real Estate, Hospitality and Construction from 1995 until her retirement in 2008. Ms. Reiss has served as Managing Director of Artemis Advisors LLC, a real estate restructuring and consulting firm, since June 2008 and as Senior Managing Director of Brock Capital Group LLC, a boutique investment bank, and as chairman of its affiliate, Brock Real Estate LLC, both since December 2009. Ms. Reiss serves as a director, Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee, and member of the Audit Committee of DigitalBridge Group, Inc. (formerly Colony Capital, Inc.), a publicly traded global digital infrastructure, real estate, and investment management firm, since June 2019 and as a director and Chair of the Audit Committee of Starwood Real Estate Income Trust, a public non-traded real estate investment trust, since November 2017. Ms. Reiss was formerly a director, Chair of the Audit Committee and member of the Nominating and Governance Committee of iStar Inc., a publicly traded real estate investment company, from July 2008 through May 2019, a director of CYS Investments, Inc., a publicly traded mortgage real estate investment company, from January 2015 through July 2018, and a director and Chair of the Compensation Committee of Care Capital Properties Inc., a publicly traded healthcare real estate investment company, from August 2015 through August 2017. She is a governor of the Urban Land Institute Foundation, a non-profit organization, and she also previously served as a member of the Board of Directors. Ms. Reiss brings to the Board extensive expertise in financial and accounting matters from her experience over an extended period at several major public accounting firms, her leadership experience in management and operations at those firms, and her experience as a director of other public and private companies. Ms. Reiss holds a Bachelor of Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago. She is a Certified Public Accountant.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Board of Directors
Dennis D. Oklak has served as a director since May 2017. Mr. Oklak served as Chief Executive Officer of Duke Realty Corporation, a publicly traded real estate investment trust focused on industrial and office properties, from April 2004 through December 2015 and served as Director from April 2004 and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Duke Realty Corporation from 2005 until April 2017. Mr. Oklak serves as Lead Independent Director of Xenia Hotels and Resorts, a publicly traded lodging real estate investment trust, on whose Board of Directors he has served since February 2015. He has also served as NonExecutive Chair of the Board of Managers of ITR Concession Company LLC, lessee of the Indiana Toll Road, since March 2016. Mr. Oklak serves on the Boards of the Eskenazi Health Foundation and Conexus Indiana, both of which are non-profit organizations. Mr. Oklak contributes to our Board real estate industry, consulting, operations, development and executive leadership expertise, as well as finance, accounting and auditing expertise from nine years at Deloitte prior to joining Duke Realty Corporation. The Board also values his experience as a chief executive officer and a public company director. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Ball State University.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- President & Chief Executive Officer / Lunda Construction Company
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Executive Vice President
- Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
Gary G. Smalley has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Tutor Perini Corporation since September 2015. Previously, he held several financial management roles during nearly 24 years with Fluor Corporation, a multinational engineering and construction firm. With Fluor, he served as Senior Vice President and Controller for seven years, as Group Chief Financial Officer for one of Fluor's business segments, as Vice President of Internal Audit and in several other financial operations roles in Australia, Chile, Mexico and the United States. Prior to joining Fluor, he held audit positions with Ernst & Young and J.P. Stevens and Company. Mr. Smalley holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master of Business Administration degree from Northwestern University. He is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner and a Chartered Global Management Accountant.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
- Executive Vice President of the Building
- Executive Vice President, Building & Specialty Contractors Groups
Ghassan M. Ariqat has served as Executive Vice President of the Building and Specialty Contractors groups since September 2022. Mr. Ariqat previously served in several executive positions with Tutor Perini since 2008, most recently as Senior Vice President and Project Executive for the California High-Speed Rail project, one of the Company's largest civil projects. He originally joined the Company's predecessor, Tutor-Saliba Corporation, in 1987 and successfully managed numerous projects, including public works buildings, institutional buildings and wastewater treatment plants.
Job Titles:
- EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT
- Executive Vice President / Rudolph and Sletten, Inc.
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- Director
- Member of the Board of Directors
Jigisha Desai has served as a director since December 2021. Ms. Desai has over 30 years of financial management, business leadership, and corporate strategy experience. Ms. Desai most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of Granite Construction Incorporated ("Granite"), a heavy civil infrastructure construction company, from January 2021 to December 2021. She also served as Granite's Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from July 2018 to January 2021, Vice President of Corporate Finance, Treasurer & Assistant Financial Officer from September 2013 to July 2018, and in other financial management roles at Granite prior to that. Ms. Desai has served as a director and Audit Committee Chair of QualTek Services, Inc., a publicly traded infrastructure services provider, since February 2022. She has also served as a director of 1st Capital Bank, a publicly traded community bank, since July 2020, and ElementUS Minerals, a privately held company, since January 2022. Ms. Desai is a member of the Association of Financial Professionals and a Certified Treasury Professional. Ms. Desai holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Houston, a Master of Business Administration in Corporate Finance from Golden Gate University, and completed Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program. Ms. Desai brings to the Board extensive, industry-relevant and public company financial and accounting experience through the various positions she has held over her career.
Job Titles:
- President & Chief Executive Officer / Roy Anderson Corp
- President & Chief Executive Officer / Rudolph and Sletten, Inc.
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- Vice President, Investor Relations & Corporate Communications Tutor Perini Corporation 15901 Olden Street Sylmar, CA 91342
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- Chief Executive Officer
- President
- President & Chief Executive Officer / WDF Inc.
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- Senior Vice President & General Manager / Becho, Inc.
- Senior Vice President & General Manager / Black Construction Corporation
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- Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
- Civil
- Executive Vice President of the Civil
- Executive Vice President, Civil Group
Michael F. Smithson has served as Executive Vice President of the Civil group since September 2022. Previously, Mr. Smithson led the Building and Specialty Contractors groups since joining Tutor Perini in May 2021. Prior to that, Mr. Smithson was a Senior Vice President at Skanska USA for nine years, where he was responsible for Skanska's heavy civil projects located within Los Angeles County and its underground heavy civil projects in the western United States. Prior to Skanska USA, he worked for Kenny Construction in Chicago for seven years. Mr. Smithson holds a Bachelor of Science in Geologic Engineering from Purdue University and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Lead Independent Director
- Member of the Board of Directors
Michael R. Klein has served as a director since January 1997 and as Vice Chairman of the Board since September 2000. He is also the Lead Independent Director. Mr. Klein has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of CoStar Group, Inc., a publicly held provider of commercial real estate information of which he was a co-founder, since August 1987; and as a director of ThinkFood Group, LLC, a privately held food services company, since December 2011. Mr. Klein also serves as the Chairman of the Shakespeare Theatre Company and of the Aspen Music Festival and School, as a trustee of the Aspen Institute and as a director of DC Central Kitchen, all non-profit organizations. Mr. Klein's 40 plus years as a corporate lawyer, investor and director of multiple corporations, both public and private, qualify and enable him to contribute sound judgment and leadership to the Board and the Company in his role as Lead Independent Director. Mr. Klein holds a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School and Juris Doctor and Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Miami.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- President
- PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER / Fisk Electric Company
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Board of Directors
Peter Arkley has served as a director since May 2000. Since March 2022, he has served as President of Alliant Retail Property and Casualty for Alliant Insurance Services, Inc. ("Alliant"), an insurance and bonding brokerage firm. Prior to his current position, Mr. Arkley served as President of Alliant Specialty Group, which included 14 specialty insurance operations including agribusiness, aviation, construction, energy, executive risk, financial institutions, health care, marine, mergers and acquisitions, public entity, real estate and trade credit, from April 2017 to March 2022. He also previously served as Senior Managing Director, Construction Services Group of Alliant from June 2011 to April 2017. Before joining Alliant, Mr. Arkley was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aon Construction Services Group, a global insurance broker servicing the construction industry, for 18 years. He has extensive knowledge and expertise in insurance and surety and provides the Board insight on risk management and financial services. Mr. Arkley holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Wagner College.
Job Titles:
- PRESIDENT / Nagelbush Mechanical, Inc.
- President / WDF Inc.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Board of Directors
Raymond R. Oneglia has served as a director since March 2000. Since 1997, he has served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of O&G Industries, Inc. ("O&G"), a Connecticut corporation engaged in the construction industry, and prior to that, he served in various operating and administrative capacities with O&G since 1970. Mr. Oneglia's more than 50 years of experience at O&G allow him to contribute an in-depth industry perspective to the Board. Mr. Oneglia holds a Bachelor of Science from Union College.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Chief Executive Officer / Perini Management Services, Inc.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Executive Managing Director of Island Capital Group LLC
Robert C. Lieber has served as a director since August 2014. Mr. Lieber is the Executive Managing Director of Island Capital Group LLC, a leading international real estate merchant bank, and of C-III Capital Partners LLC, a fully-diversified asset management and commercial real estate services company, of which Island Capital Group LLC is the controlling parent. He joined the firm in July 2010, after having served under New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg as Deputy Mayor for Economic Development. Mr. Lieber also has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Resource REIT, Inc. (previously Resource Real Estate Opportunity REIT, Inc.), a public non-traded real estate investment trust, since February 2018. In addition, he served as Chief Executive Officer (but not a director) of Exantas Capital Corp. (now known as ACRES Commercial Realty Corp.), a publicly traded real estate investment trust, which was managed by a subsidiary of C-III Capital Partners LLC, from September 2016 to August 2020. Mr. Lieber brings to the Board extensive expertise and insight into financial and political matters pertaining to real estate and infrastructure development projects, gained through his experience in the financial and governmental sectors. Mr. Lieber holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Colorado and a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
Ronald N. Tutor has served as our Chief Executive Officer since March 2000, as Chairman of the Board since July 1999, and as a director since January 1997. Mr. Tutor also served as Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Tutor-Saliba Corporation ("Tutor-Saliba"), a privately held California corporation engaged in the construction industry, until Tutor-Saliba merged with the Company in September 2008. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Southern California. With over 20 years at the Company and over 55 years in the industry, Mr. Tutor brings to the Board an industry acknowledged leadership role and in-depth knowledge of our Company and the construction industry. Mr. Tutor holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Southern California.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- President
- President & Chief Executive Officer / Five Star Electric Corp.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Board of Directors
Sidney J. Feltenstein has served as a director since November 2013 and has served as a Senior Operating Partner of Sentinel Capital Partners, an American private equity firm focusing on mid-market companies, since February 2010. He retired in February 2003 from the roles of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Yorkshire Global Restaurants, Inc., the holding company for A&W Restaurants and Long John Silver's, which he founded in 1994. Mr. Feltenstein serves as a director of The HoneyBaked Ham Company, Captain D's, TGI Fridays, Hooters, Inc. and Newk's, all of which are privately held food-related companies. In addition, he is a former Trustee and Audit Committee Chairman and is currently an Overseer of Boston University, and is a Trustee of One Family Health, both of which are non-profit organizations. Mr. Feltenstein brings extensive operational and marketing management expertise to the Board through various positions held over his career and through his experience as a director of other public and private companies. Mr. Feltenstein holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Boston University.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- President
- President & Chief Executive Officer / Frontier - Kemper Constructors Inc.
Job Titles:
- Chief Business Development Officer
- Executive Vice President
- Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
William J. Palmer has served as the Executive Vice President, Chief Business Development Officer of Tutor Perini Corporation since July 2020. He joined the company in May 2016 as Senior Vice President, Chief Business Development Officer. Mr. Palmer is responsible for driving growth, market diversification and expanding Tutor Perini Corporation's service offerings. Prior to joining Tutor Perini, Mr. Palmer was Executive Vice President, Director of Strategic Alliances, North America for Tishman AECOM. Prior to that, he served as Vice President of Business Development, Strategic Alliances with Hunt Construction Group, Inc. Mr. Palmer brings more than 30 years of experience to Tutor Perini, having spent equal amounts of time in both Canada and the United States. A specialist in Strategic Alliances, his career has spanned the fields of real estate development and construction management.