Team player Kevin Antonelli went from bidder on Google’s Bay View Campus in Mountain View, Calif., in its first iteration a decade ago to later becoming the revamped project’s biggest cheerleader from the owner’s side, helping to successfully and safely complete its ultra-sustainable, complex structures.
Growing up as an apprentice in a family of Italian stone masons in the Boston area, Antonelli decided at a young age that the backbreaking work wasn’t for him. After heading off to college and developing an interest in law, he served as a police officer for five years, but construction drew him back in after he began flipping houses with several former police officers. A chance conversation at a friend’s wedding led to an interview with Turner Construction’s Bay Area office, and Antonelli launched a nearly 25-year career with the contractor, beginning as assistant superintendent and working his way up to vice president and general manager of the contractor’s San Francisco Bay Area operations.