10 Facts About Brendan Bechtel

Brendan Peters Bechtel was born on 1981 and is an American businessman who is the chairman and chief executive officer of Bechtel, the second largest construction company in the United States, which has operations in 160 countries.

Brendan Bechtel first worked at Bechtel as a paid summer intern when he was 14, the minimum legal working age in California, in the corporate IT group.

Dudley had been appointed CEO in late 2013, when Riley Brendan Bechtel stepped down as CEO four years earlier than planned, after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

At the age of 35, Brendan became the second youngest CEO in the history of the company since it was founded by Warren Bechtel in 1898; the youngest was his great-grandfather, Stephen Bechtel Sr.

Since then, Brendan Bechtel has held the dual titles of chairman and CEO.

In 2020, the company experienced what Brendan Bechtel called "the toughest year in our company's history" and was overtaken by Turner Construction as the No 1 contractor in the United States on ENR's Top 400 Contractors List for the first time since 1999, following a decline in revenue across nearly all market sectors.

Brendan Bechtel is on the board of directors of the Business Roundtable and is the chair of its infrastructure committee.

Brendan Bechtel has served as a trustee of the National Geographical Society and the Center for Strategic and International Studies for several years.

Brendan Bechtel is on the board of advisers for the Fremont Group, the private investment office for the Bechtel family, which invests in real estate and venture capital.

Brendan Bechtel married one month before leaving for Australia to work on the Queensland Curtis LNG project in early 2012.