Riley Bechtel

Riley Bechtel serves as Vice President & Director at Oak Meadow Foundation. Bechtel served as the Board Member and Chairman at Bechtel. He also serves as Advisor at Fremont Group. He is also a Member of Advisory Board at Fremont Group. He also served as a Board of Director at Theranos. He joined Bechtel in 1966. After Bechtel, he joined the law firm of Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges, where he worked on matters for Bechtel and other clients. Rejoining Bechtel in 1981, he became contract coordinator and then piping superintendent at the Belle River Power Plant in Michigan. Two years later, he served as area superintendent at the Badak LNG Plant in Indonesia, with full responsibility for all construction activity in one of the two process areas of the plant. During 1984, he worked as general field superintendent on the New Zealand Gas-to-Gasoline project and in early 1985 he moved to London where he served as a business development representative, pursuing projects in the Middle East, Northern Ireland and Africa. He became assistant manager of operations for the London Division in late 1985 and division technical manager in early 1986. Later that year, he was named managing director of Bechtel Limited. He was named a director of Bechtel Group, Inc. in August 1987 and executive vice president three months later. In March 1989, he was elected president and chief operating officer of Bechtel Group, Inc. He became president and chief executive officer in June 1990 and chairman and chief executive officer in January 1996. Bechtel is also a director of Fremont Group. Bechtel received a combined JD/MBA degree from Stanford University's School of Law and Graduate School of Business. He is also an Angel Investor.