Skanska names new strategy chief, market VP

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Sweden-based builder and developer Skanska made two major promotions inside its U.S. constructing operations, the agency introduced Oct. 2.

Efficient instantly, Jenny Chandler Graham has been promoted to govt vp and chief technique officer and Tieg Murray Rustam to vp of market technique and artistic providers, in keeping with a information launch.

A 20-year Skanska veteran, Graham most just lately served within the position Rustam is assuming. As CSO, Graham will lead Skanska USA Constructing’s long-term strategic planning, drive inside alignment and oversee a 120-person technique crew within the areas of promoting, information analytics and rising tech. Graham will report on to Clay Haden, president and CEO of Skanska USA Constructing as a part of the agency’s senior management crew.

Graham will succeed Anita Nelson, who just lately assumed govt oversight of Skanska Superior Know-how and Skanska Built-in Options. 

Skanska introduced it was increasing its superior tech unit in September. The transfer mixed its information middle building crew with its semiconductor supply group to raised capitalize on the market’s opportunity.

In her earlier position, Nelson oversaw the corporate’s rollout of a set of inside artificial intelligence products, or “Sidekicks,” to its workers. Transferring ahead, Graham will oversee the info options crew, which is answerable for the Sidekick instruments, Peggy Cook dinner, communications director for Skanska USA, instructed Development Dive through electronic mail.

Much like Graham, Rustam is a Skanska veteran, having labored on the U.S. arm of the builder for nearly 19 years, per the announcement. Serving most just lately as senior director of market technique, Rustam led development planning throughout sectors together with larger training, Okay-12, science and expertise, mission essential and healthcare. 

“Jenny and Tieg exemplify the sort of management that drives Skanska ahead—strategic, collaborative, and deeply dedicated to our individuals and our objective,” Haden stated within the launch. “Jenny’s imaginative and prescient and enterprise-wide influence have helped form our future, and Tieg’s potential to attach technique with execution makes her the right chief to proceed that momentum.”