Michael McNally
Michael McNally, the president and chief executive of Skanska USA, struggles with Swedish. As the president of the American branch of the Swedish parent company, Skanska AB, McNally said he tried to use Rosetta Stone to learn the language, but found his progress laughably slow. McNally, who sat down with the New York Times recently for an interview, is currently overseeing more than 1,000 projects — or about $5.5 billion of business in the United States. The firm is managing construction for the Brooklyn Bridge Park, repainting and redoing the surfaces in the ramps, and building the underground part of the PATH station in the World Trade Center and the steel of the Calatrava entrance hall there, too. They’re also extending the No. 7 subway line. And while Skanska just finished the new Meadowlands stadium, McNally admits that he’s a Patriots fan (Skanska built Gillette Stadium, too.) [NYT]