One afternoon this May, a group of journalists and market analysts convened in London at the Royal Society headquarters in Carleton House to hear the CEO of Salini Impregilo unveil the Italian engineering and construction conglomerate’s strategy for the next four years.
Acknowledging the society’s historic past, Pietro Salini began with a droll aside, saying, “It’s a little intimidating to be here in the same room with Sir Isaac Newton and Benjamin Franklin.”