Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> November 26, 2003
FRANK T. MACINNIS is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EMCOR
Group, Inc. He has spent more than 25 years in the international
construction and facility management industry. A native of Camrose,
Alberta, Mr. MacInnis is a graduate of the University of Alberta Law
School. His law practice included specialties in construction and
hospital law; he participated as legal counsel in a lengthy inquiry into
medical staff qualifications in Canadian hospitals. In 1975 Mr. MacInnis
began his construction career in Tehran, Iran, as an officer of Paris-
based Spie Batignolles S.A. The following years included postings and
construction operations in such diverse locations as Baghdad, Bangkok,
the United Arab Emirates and London, England. Mr. MacInnis moved to
Oklahoma from London in 1981, when he was named Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of H.C. Price Construction, a continent-wide builder
of large diameter oil and gas pipelines. From a base in Oklahoma and
later in Dallas, Texas, Mr. MacInnis participated in the construction of
some of the premier oil and gas development projects in history. During
this period he also founded a pioneering company in the new field of
horizontal directional drilling. After serving for several years as the
Chairman of Comstock Group, Inc., a New York-based construction group,
Mr. MacInnis joined JWP, Inc., in early 1994 and successfully managed
its reorganization and emergence from Chapter 11. Today, EMCOR Group,
Inc., the successor company to JWP, is a Fortune 500 firm with more than
28,000 employees worldwide, eight years of consistent profits, and 2002
revenues of $4 billion. Mr. MacInnis also serves as a member of the
Board of Directors of The Williams Companies, ITT Industries, Inc., and
The Greater New York Chapter of the March of Dimes. Profile
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