DPR Building introduced this week it has appointed Mark Whitson as president, efficient this month. He’ll lead the agency with CEO George Pfeffer to “information DPR’s shared management workforce and the group into the long run,” in accordance with a press launch. The Redwood Metropolis, California-based common contractor and building supervisor focuses on life sciences, healthcare, greater schooling and industrial markets.
Whitson, who’s now based mostly in Cary, North Carolina, has been with DPR for greater than 20 years. He began proper out of faculty in 2001 working as a carpenter on a drywall crew, then transitioned to undertaking engineer
Mark Whitson
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Later he led undertaking groups on healthcare and mission vital initiatives, together with a $1.2 billion NSA information heart in Camp Williams, Utah. In 2013 Whitson shifted to enterprise unit chief, and most just lately, elevated integration and collaboration amongst DPR areas as a member of the administration workforce.
Final 12 months Whitson and Pfeffer led DPR’s Tradition Con Roadshow, which introduced administrative and craft staff collectively in particular person to ask questions. The corporate used suggestions from that discussion board to implement a set of enhancements, in accordance with the discharge, together with complete advantages packages for these working within the area. Whitson believes it’s that type of connection that makes DPR a hit.
“On the core, our success and talent to construct nice issues are workforce pushed,” stated Whitson within the launch. “All of us play a vital half within the supply of initiatives, and our confirmed mannequin of shared and targeted management exemplifies our collaborative spirit that helps construct raving followers each internally and externally.”