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Ray Bond

President and CEO

Ray Bond is president and CEO of Balfour Beatty Infrastructure, Inc., Balfour Beatty Rail, Inc., and Fru-Con Construction, LLC, industry-leading heavy civil and rail infrastructure contractors. Prior to being named president and CEO in September 2010, Bond worked seven years as chief financial officer for Balfour Beatty, LLC., the holding company for the U.S. interests of Balfour Beatty. As CFO, Bond was responsible for managing the financial and tax reporting for the group’s six U.S. operating companies. He was also involved in operational issues for Balfour Beatty Infrastructure and Balfour Beatty Rail, and played a key role in numerous U.S. acquisitions for the group. Bond joined Balfour Beatty in 1996 in the U.K. as finance director for the group’s new rail division in London.  Two years later he was promoted to operations director of the division’s largest subsidiary, the £220 million Balfour Beatty Rail Maintenance Ltd. In 2000 Bond was asked to take on a general manager role and assist with the turnaround of Balfour Beatty Rail Maintenance’s Wessex Region, responsible for 1300 track miles in southwest England. Originally from Clapham, London, he received a Bachelor’s in Accountancy and Finance from Heriot-Watt University in 1983 and became a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in 1987.