Peter Dawson is CFO of Bechtel Corporation, reporting to company CEO Riley Bechtel. In this capacity, he guides the organization’s finance side, putting him in charge of: the Controller, Treasury and Tax functions. He is also a sponsor of Bechtel Enterprises (BEn), Risk Management, Human Resources, Information Systems & Technology and Corporate Affairs. Dawson has held many roles at the company since he started back in 1978, having been promoted to Senior VP in 2002 and, a few months later, elected to its Board of Directors. Other roles he has held include: responsibility for Bechtel’s corporate headquarters in San Francisco (whereby he set up and ran the corporate Strategic Marketing and Analysis group); Principal VP (serving in a variety of management roles in London for the company’s Europe, Africa, Middle East, Southwest Asia’s regional organization); regional manager for its telecommunications and industrial businesses; senior VP of the company in Maryland; executive VP of its Telecommunications & Industrial global business unit.