Board of Directors

David H. Watts
Mr. Watts served as our Chairman of the Board from May 1999 through August 2009. He also served as our Chief Executive Officer from October 1987 to December 2003 and as our President from October 1987 to January 2003. Mr. Watts was formerly President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Ford, Bacon & Davis, Inc., an industrial engineering and construction firm. Mr. Watts currently serves as a director of Elgin National Industries, Inc. (a private company), the California Chamber of Commerce, of which he is a past Chair, the Monterey Bay Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula, the California Business Roundtable, and Transportation California. He holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Cornell University.
Committee Memberships: Executive Committee; Strategic Planning Committee

William G. Dorey
Mr. Dorey has been an employee of Granite since 1968 and has served in various capacities, including Chief Executive Officer since January 2004 and President since February 2003. He also served as Chief Operating Officer between May 1998 and January 2004, Executive Vice President between November 1998 and February 2003, Senior Vice President between 1990 and 1998, Manager, Branch Division from 1987 to 1998, and Vice President and Assistant Manager, Branch Division from 1983 to 1987. Mr. Dorey has been a director of Granite since January 2004 and is also a director of Wilder Construction Company. Between 1997 and 2002, he served as a director of TIC Holdings, Inc. Mr. Dorey holds a B.S. degree in Construction Engineering from Arizona State University.
Committee Membership: Executive Committee

Claes G. Bjork
Mr. Bjork served as Chief Executive Officer of Skanska AB, Sweden, one of the world’s largest construction companies, from 1997 to 2002. He also served as President of Skanska USA from 1984 to 1996, Vice President from 1978 to 1985 and held various project management and field positions within Skanska USA and Skanska Sweden from 1969 to 1977. Mr. Bjork served as Chairman of Scancem Cement Company from 1998 through 2000 and is currently on the board of Qlik Technologies, Inc., the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce and Consolidated Management Group. He studied Civil Engineering in Sweden.
Committee Memberships: Executive Committee; Compensation Committee

James W. Bradford
Mr. Bradford has served in various capacities at Vanderbilt University, Owen School of Management. From March 2005 to present, he has served as Dean and Ralph Owen Professor for the Practice of Management. Between 2002 and March 2005, he served as Acting Dean, Associate Dean Corporate Relations, Clinical Professor of Management and Adjunct Professor. Between 1999 and September 2001, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of United Glass Corporation, and from 1992 to 1999, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of AFG Industries. Mr. Bradford is currently a director of Genesco, Inc. and Clarcor, Inc. He holds a B.A. degree in History and Political Science from the University of Florida and a J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University.
Committee Memberships:Audit/Compliance Committee; Strategic Planning Committee (Chair)

Gary M. Cusumano
Mr. Cusumano retired in 2006 as Chairman of The Newhall Land and Farming Company, a developer of new towns and master-planned communities in north Los Angeles County, in which capacity he served since Lennar and LNR Properties acquired Newhall Land in 2004. Prior to the acquisition, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Newhall Land from 1989 to 2001, Chief Executive Officer from 2001 to 2004, and director since 1995. He is currently a director of Forest Lawn Memorial Parks and Mortuaries and Simpson Manufacturing Co. Mr. Cusumano holds a B.S. degree in Economics from the University of California, Davis and is a graduate of the Sloan Program at the Stanford University Business School.
Committee Memberships: Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee; Compensation Committee (Chair); Strategic Planning Committee

David H. Kelsey
Mr. Kelsey has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Sealed Air Corporation, an S&P 500 manufacturer of specialty packaging for food and other protective applications, since December 2003 and served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer between January 2002 and December 2003. From 1998 to 2001, he served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Oglebay Norton Company, a Russell 3000 company in the industrial mineral and aggregates industry. Mr. Kelsey holds a B.S.E. degree in Civil and Geological Engineering from Princeton University and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Business.
Committee Memberships: Executive Committee; Audit/Compliance Committee (Chair)

Rebecca A. McDonald
Ms. McDonald has served as Chief Executive Officer of Laurus Energy Inc. since December 2008.  She previously served as President of Gas and Power, BHP Billiton from March 2004 to September 2007 and was  the President of the Houston Museum of Natural Science from October 2001 to January 2004. Ms. McDonald holds a B.S. degree in Education from Stephen F. Austin State University.
Committee Memberships: Executive Committee; Compensation Committee; Strategic Planning Committee ; Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee (Chair)

J. Fernando Niebla
Mr. Niebla has served as President of International Technology Partners L.L.C., an information technology consulting company based in Orange County, California since August 1998. Mr. Niebla is a director of Union Bank of California, Pacific Life Corp, LifeModeler, Inc. and Integrated Healthcare Holdings, Inc. He holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arizona and an M.S. QBA from the University of Southern California.
Committee Memberships: Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee; Audit/Compliance Committee; Strategic Planning Committee

William H. Powell
Mr. Powell has served as our Chairman of the Board since September 2009. Mr. Powell retired in 2006 from National Starch and Chemical Company where he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since 1999. Accordingly, he also stepped down as a director of ICI PLC and American Chemistry Council. Currently he is the Chairman, Board of Trustees of State Theatre Performing Arts Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey and serves as a director of Arch Chemical Company, Inc. and PolyOne, Inc. Mr. Powell holds a B.A. degree in Chemistry and an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and an M.A. in Business Administration from the University of North Dakota.
Committee Memberships: Executive Committee (Chair); Compensation Committee; Strategic Planning Committee