Robert G. Card

Robert Gordon Card (born February 1953) is an American businessman, engineer, and former government employee who was the CEO of SNC-Lavalin, Canada's largest engineering and construction firm.

Early life and education Card was born to Brad, an engineer and farmer, and Dorothy Card in California. He grew up in Yakima, Washington and received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the University of Washington. He then earned a master of science degree in environmental engineering from Stanford University. He completed the Harvard Business School Program for management development.

Career CH2M Hill Card's career began in the summer of 1975 as an intern at CH2M Hill, where he became a Group CEO, board member and the largest shareholder of the Denver, Colorado-based global engineering firm. At CH2M Hill, he was the sponsoring executive and deputy project director for the delivery partner for the London 2012 Olympics. He managed over 40,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenues, and initiated a revamp of the firm's governance, ethics and compliance program and transformed initiatives in health and safety, environment, sustainability and other aspects of corporate social responsibility. He also developed a strategy to maintain the firm's position at the top of the rapidly consolidating engineering and construction sector by selling interests in the firm's substantial infrastructure, power and mining assets to create global Tier-1 engineering and construction capability in oil and gas, mining, power and infrastructure.

Card was the CEO of joint venture Kaiser-Hill in the decommissioning of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant.

He was ranked among Canada's 100 highest paid CEOs in 2015.

Card was appointed a member of the board of Amec Foster Wheeler in 2017.

Personal life Card's wife, Nancy, is an engineer who earned her MBA from Harvard University.