Biography|Claes Björck — The Beach Street Board That Made Him Chairman

After 2002 he did not leave construction.

Granite Construction, the Watsonville contractor listed as GVA, put him on its board in 2006.

The published headquarters is 585 West Beach Street, a working road of packing houses and cold storage on the Pajaro side of town.

In 2018 the board made him independent chairman.

He held that seat until 2 June 2021.

The proxy biographies written while he served are consistent on the résumé.

Civil engineering studies in Sweden.

Chief executive of Skanska from 1997 to 2002.

Earlier chairman of Scancem Cement.

Director of the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce.

Trustee of the American-Scandinavian Foundation.

They do not invent a childhood house.

Granite grew up supplying California highways from this agricultural town.

A Swedish tunnel engineer chairing a Watsonville contractor is the afterlife of the 1972 posting to New York.

The pin is the public company office, not a residence.

The cover photograph is the Lettunich Building at Beach and Main, a few blocks east of the headquarters on the same street.

Photo: Robert Ashworth, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons