Staff Report
Published Feb. 3, 2012

Fluor Corp. announced Thursday that its board of directors elected David T. Seaton as the company’s new chairman.

Seaton, 50, was named CEO and company director in February 2011. He will hold both chairman and CEO positions.

David T. Seaton was elected as the new chairman of Flour Corp.’s board. He will now hold both chairman and CEO positions at the company. (Photo/Provided)

Seaton is a native of Aiken and holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of South Carolina. He chairs the President’s Initiative Council at USC and is chairman for the university’s $1 billion capital campaign.

Fluor Corp. is the lead partner in Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, which manages operations at the Savannah River Site. Fluor’s partners are Honeywell International Inc. and Newport News Nuclear Inc.

At Fluor, Alan L. Boeckmann is retiring from the company’s board, having served the last year as the non-executive board chairman and the previous nine years in the role as Fluor’s chairman and CEO. The leadership change was voted on and approved during the company’s February board meeting. All changes were effective Feb. 2.

“I have worked closely with Alan as well as the other board members over the last several years and I am appreciative of their confidence in my stewardship,” Seaton said. “I look forward to leading our global workforce in my expanded role as we strive together to grow our end markets and strengthen Fluor’s global presence.”

Boeckmann said Fluor has a very bright future under Seaton’s leadership.

“David Seaton is the right person to lead Fluor and I know the board is fully supportive of where David wants to take the company,” Boeckmann said.

Seaton is a board member of The Mosaic Co. and the Partnering Against Corruption Initiative within the World Economic Forum. He is also a board member of the American Petroleum Institute and the U.S.-Saudi Arabian Business Council. Seaton serves as co-chair of the B20/G20 Task Force on Corruption and as co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Corruption.

Fluor Corp. designs, builds and maintains projects worldwide. The company maintains a major engineering center in Greenville. Fluor also has a global network of offices on six continents, providing expertise in engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, operations, maintenance and project management. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Fluor is a Fortune 200 company and had revenue of $20.8 billion in 2010.