Kathleen Shanahan Biography and Net Worth

Kathleen Shanahan was elected to the board of directors in July of 2019. Ms. Shanahan presently is Co-Chief Executive Officer of Turtle & Hughes, Inc. Established in 1923, Turtle & Hughes ranks among the nation’s top twenty electrical distribution companies serving the industrial, construction, commercial, electrical contracting, export, and utility industries. Turtle & Hughes operates in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico and is a certified women-owned business. Ms. Shanahan is currently Chair, and was previously Chair and Chief Executive Officer, of Ground Works Solutions, formerly URETEK Holdings, Inc., a corporation focused on soil stabilization and densification through a patented polymer-based application process. She has also been the CEO and Chairman of WRSCompass, an environmental engineering and contracting company with a national footprint. She served as Chief of Staff for Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Chief of Staff for Vice President-elect Dick Cheney, Deputy Secretary of the California Trade and Commerce Agency for Governor Wilson, Special Assistant to then Vice President George H. W. Bush, and Staff Assistant to President Ronald Reagan’s National Security Council. Ms. Shanahan currently serves and has served in the past on several other boards of public and private corporations as well as government and civic organizations. She currently serves on the board of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation. She received her undergraduate degree in Nutrition and Biochemistry from the University of California, San Diego, Revelle College, and her Masters in Business Administration from New York University.