Skanska AB named Richard Kennedy an Executive Vice President of Skanska AB and President and Chief Executive Officer of Skanska USA, overseeing the company's construction operations in the United States, the US corporate staff functions and Skanska's infrastructure development operations. Kennedy will be a member of Skanska AB's six-member Group Leadership Team (GLT). He succeeds Anders Danielsson, who recently assumed the role of Skanska AB President and CEO. Kennedy has been with Skanska for 14 years. In his most recent role as business unit president, he oversaw a tremendously stable building construction operation, delivering consistently profitable projects for Skanska while supporting the goals of its customers to ensure repeat and new business. First joining the company as a general counsel, Kennedy then served as Chief Operating Officer of New York and New Jersey building operations beginning in 2009 before ascending to oversee all US building construction operations in 2016.