Lee McIntire

Former Positions

CEO, TerraPower
Chairman, CEO, and President of CH2M Hill

Lee McIntire became a Senior Advisor to EFCG in 2019, bringing more than 40 years of executive leadership and governance experience to the company.  Mr. McIntire has led and grown several large, global businesses: he joined TerraPower (Bill Gates’ nuclear power company) as CEO and served from August 2015 to October 2018.  Previously, Mr. McIntire served as Chairman, CEO and President of CH2M Hill variously from 2006 to 2014.  Under his tenure, CH2M Hill doubled its revenue, growing to 29,000 employees in over 100 countries.  Prior to that, Mr. McIntire was a Partner, Executive Vice President and served on the Board of Directors of Bechtel Corporation from 1989 to 2004, also serving as President of several of the multi-billion dollar businesses.

Mr. McIntire also lends his leadership to a number of organizations around the world as an advisor to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (Presidents’ Circle); National Academy of Construction; and Denver Art Museum. He has served on the Business Roundtable; World Economic Forum (Governor of Infrastructure and Urban Development Industries); World Business Council on Sustainable Development; National Petroleum Council; Council on Competitiveness; Aspen Institute’s Commission on Arctic Climate Change; and BAE Systems (British Aerospace) PLC Board of Directors. Mr. McIntire is a presidential appointee to the US-Brazil CEO Forum, and a recipient of both the Woodrow Wilson Award and the Korbel Award for International Business.

Mr. McIntire holds a BS from the University of Nebraska College of Civil Engineering, and a Master’s degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona. He also attended the Executive Management Program at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and served as Executive-in-Residence at the University of California, Davis, Graduate School of Management.