CEO of the Year 2023 Finalist: Rich Benenson

Colorado is full of devoted entrepreneurs, business leaders and tech-savvy visionaries who are constantly taking the business world to new heights. It’s no secret that here, at ColoradoBiz, we love the Colorado business community. That’s why, every year, we spotlight the most impressive CEOs throughout our Centennial state and give credit where credit is due — to the forward-thinking minds constantly chasing the next great idea and upholding their business practices to the most purposeful ideals. We’re proud to introduce our finalists for CoBiz’s prestigious 2022 CEO of the Year award.


Rich Benenson

Managing Partner

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Denver, Colorado

Website: www.bhfs.com

Under Rich Benenson’s leadership in 2022, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck saw an increase in revenue, growth in attorney and policy professional hiring, new comprehensive wellness and leadership development programs, and expansion of the firm’s DEI program. 

One of Benenson’s most notable challenges was moving the firm to Block 162, a new 30-story office tower in downtown Denver. The move was the culmination of three years of strategic planning that began in mid-2020. Benenson foresaw that Brownstein’s employees needed a fresh, hybrid office space, one that offered space for in-person collaboration, because a fully remote-working environment wasn’t a long-term solution for a firm that thrives on relationships in a team-oriented environment. 

Benenson joined Brownstein in 2002 as an associate in the litigation department and has had experience at almost every level of the firm and chaired almost every firm committee. This provides him with unique insight into the many perspectives of employees, allowing him to make informed decisions that serve everyone at Brownstein. 

In 2022, Brownstein posted the highest revenue in the firm’s history, and it was the No. 1 lobbying firm in Washington, D.C., for all of 2022 and the first two quarters of 2023. One of Benenson’s biggest challenges has been fully incorporating the thriving lobbying practice into a legal framework. As a lobbying practice headquartered outside of D.C. that only established a presence there 30 years ago, there is no other firm that is on the same trajectory to learn from.

Benenson has successfully articulated a vision that aligns the firm’s legal and lobbying efforts to offer expanded services to clients. From strategic hires to expand Brownstein’s state government relations capabilities to encouraging a cross-selling mindset among all attorneys and policy advisors, there has never been more synergy between the law and lobbying practices. Attorneys and policy advisers are collaborating to better serve clients and provide innovative solutions. What started as an immense challenge when Benenson took on the role as managing partner has been harnessed into his greatest opportunity. 

 

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CEO of the Year 2023 Finalist: John Barry

Colorado is full of devoted entrepreneurs, business leaders and tech-savvy visionaries who are constantly taking the business world to new heights. It’s no secret that here, at ColoradoBiz, we love the Colorado business community. That’s why, every year, we spotlight the most impressive CEOs throughout our Centennial state and give credit where credit is due — to the forward-thinking minds constantly chasing the next great idea and upholding their business practices to the most purposeful ideals. We’re proud to introduce our finalists for CoBiz’s prestigious 2022 CEO of the Year award.


John Barry

President and CEO

Wings Over the Rockies

Denver, Colorado

Website: www.wingsmuseum.org

Managing, inspiring and leading large groups of people during challenging times is John Barry’s superpower. That made him the perfect person for the job when he took over as president and CEO of Wings Over the Rockies in January 2017 and was tasked with opening a second site at Centennial Airport, now known as Exploration of Flight (EOF). 

Barry, a retired U.S. Air Force major general with a long list of career accomplishments, quickly assembled a team from the Wings board and staff that worked to negotiate a zero percent loan from the Walton Family Foundation for $3.3 million that allowed the first building to be completed within 18 months. This second Wings site also houses a charter middle school for more than 200 students that opened in 2020. In the works and slated to open in 2024 are a Food Hall and additional hangar. 

Other notable accomplishments of the past year under Barry’s watch include: welcoming more than 135,000 visitors representing 50 states and 31 countries to Wings; continuing the “Behind the Wings” video series on PBS, with airings in 100 markets and in 39 states and more than 9 million YouTube views; completing and updating two new Wings exhibits; developing new and innovative educational pathways that are at the core of Wings’ mission to help prepare and inspire Colorado’s youth for careers in aerospace; facilitating students building 80 percent of Wings’ RV–12iS aircraft with support and help from Wings staff and volunteers (Barry flew all the test flights for certification); awarding 22 Colorado students the James C. Ray Foundation Flight Training Scholarships in 2023, bringing the total to more  than 125 flight training scholarships worth more than $1 million since 2019. 

Barry, who grew up in a one-bedroom apartment in the Bronx, served in the U.S. Air Force for more than 30 years before retiring in 2004. He was a fighter pilot, logging 270 hours of combat time. He served as president and CEO of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver (BGCMD) from 2014 to 2016 and was superintendent of Aurora Public Schools for seven years, from 2006 to 2013.  

 

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CEO of the Year 2023 Finalist: Robin Wise

Colorado is full of devoted entrepreneurs, business leaders and tech-savvy visionaries who are constantly taking the business world to new heights. It’s no secret that here, at ColoradoBiz, we love the Colorado business community. That’s why, every year, we spotlight the most impressive CEOs throughout our Centennial state and give credit where credit is due — to the forward-thinking minds constantly chasing the next great idea and upholding their business practices to the most purposeful ideals. We’re proud to introduce our finalists for CoBiz’s prestigious 2022 CEO of the Year award.


Robin Wise

President and CEO

Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain

Greenwood Village, Colorado

Website: www.jacolorado.org

Robin Wise has been president and CEO of JA-Rocky Mountain since 1992, and during that time, the organization has grown from serving 8,000 students in the 1990-91 school year to more than 70,000 in 2022-23. 

The worldwide organization’s mission is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy through entrepreneurship, financial literacy and career-readiness programs in elementary, middle and high school classrooms.  

In the past year, Wise oversaw the construction of the new JA Free Enterprise Center in Greenwood Village, a 25,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility that is home to the Daniels Fund JA Dream Accelerator and Robert and Judi Newman JA Finance Park. These two learning labs fuse the digital and physical worlds to deliver innovative and inspirational experiences for students and will allow JA-Rocky Mountain to serve an additional 25,000 students annually.  

Over her career, Wise has engaged hundreds of thousands of educators, donors and volunteers to act on behalf of the area’s young people. 

Since JA has always delivered its programs in person via volunteer role models, the COVID-19 pandemic posed a particular challenge, forcing all programs to be implemented virtually. Wise’s response included reverse job shadows, which brought careers to students; virtual town halls that allowed students to ask questions to business leaders; and game-like simulations where students learned about the aspects of running a company and investing in the stock market.  

 

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CEO of the Year 2023 Finalist: Deron Brown

Colorado is full of devoted entrepreneurs, business leaders and tech-savvy visionaries who are constantly taking the business world to new heights. It’s no secret that here, at ColoradoBiz, we love the Colorado business community. That’s why, every year, we spotlight the most impressive CEOs throughout our Centennial state and give credit where credit is due — to the forward-thinking minds constantly chasing the next great idea and upholding their business practices to the most purposeful ideals. We’re proud to introduce our finalists for CoBiz’s prestigious 2022 CEO of the Year award.


Deron Brown

President and COO, U.S. Operations

PCL Construction

Denver, Colorado

Website: www.pcl.com

Deron Brown leads the U.S. operations and strategic direction of PCL Construction, one of the largest contractors in North America. Under Brown’s leadership, PCL has achieved record levels of new work across its U.S. operations, projecting upwards of $4.5 billion in 2023.  

Additionally, PCL was recognized on the 2023 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list and 2023 Fortune Best Workplaces in Construction list.  

Having held almost every role in construction in his working life, Brown has a deep understanding of the industry and is able to weigh different perspectives and positions that arise in prospective developments. He encourages employees to reach out to him with questions or new ideas. 

Brown is a board member of Mile High United Way, and in 2022, PCL’s Colorado office donated nearly half a million dollars to the organization, through both employee donations and company match donations. Also in 2022, the company donated $60,000 to nine food banks nationwide, including the Food Bank of the Rockies. Over the past decade, PCL’s contributions to food banks have exceeded $1.42 million. 

PCL faced significant challenges during the COVID pandemic: Maintaining safe operations for construction workers who were deemed essential while continuing to deliver critical community infrastructure; rethinking how and where people could work; assessing how to maintain productivity while adhering to safe-distance protocols; and developing secure network infrastructure to enable remote work were among the issues brought on by the pandemic that called upon Brown’s leadership.    

 

Mike TaylorMike Taylor is the editor of ColoradoBiz.CEO of the Year 2023 Finalist: Vinay Nair

CEO of the Year 2023 Finalist: Jim Reuter

Colorado is full of devoted entrepreneurs, business leaders and tech-savvy visionaries who are constantly taking the business world to new heights. It’s no secret that here, at ColoradoBiz, we love the Colorado business community. That’s why, every year, we spotlight the most impressive CEOs throughout our Centennial state and give credit where credit is due — to the forward-thinking minds constantly chasing the next great idea and upholding their business practices to the most purposeful ideals. We’re proud to introduce our finalists for CoBiz’s prestigious 2022 CEO of the Year award.


Jim Reuter

CEO, FirstBank

Lakewood, Colorado

Website: www.efirstbank.com

Jim Reuter’s career at FirstBank has spanned more than 35 years, the past seven as CEO. His commitment to stakeholders is evident throughout the $28 billion organization.

Reuter guided FirstBank to develop many of its mobile banking applications in-house and pushed the organization to be among the first banks in the nation to introduce new technologies and faster payment services (such as Zelle).

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) has flourished under Reuter’s leadership. More than 40% of FirstBank’s employees identify as minorities, and nearly 60% of the bank’s management team – from assistant manager to C-suite – are women. Reuters also helped launch FirstBank’s Multicultural Banking Centers, which offer customers banking services and financial education resources in their native or preferred language with an understanding of their culture.

FirstBank has been recognized nationally for digital banking and customer experience; for the third consecutive year, it was ranked No. 1 in customer satisfaction by J.D. Power.

Reuter, who grew up on a farm in rural Wisconsin with three brothers, attributes much of his persistence and professional acumen to his father who, despite having only an eighth-grade education, became one of the region’s most successful farmers and created a profitable trucking business.

Reuter’s business sense shows up in many ways. For instance, many consultants advised him to automate FirstBank’s customer service center, a 24/7 department with nearly 200 staff members. But Reuter didn’t believe that would provide an optimal customer experience, and he didn’t like the idea of eliminating staff. And when FirstBank’s support of the LGBTQ community drew angry calls and threats, Reuter handled those calls himself, believing it’s important to stand by all employees and communities, especially those that face opposition. Those are some reasons Reuter boasts a 90%+ approval rating on Glassdoor.

 

Mike TaylorMike Taylor is the editor of ColoradoBiz.CEO of the Year 2023 Finalist: Vinay Nair

CEO of the Year 2023 Finalist: Vinay Nair

Colorado is full of devoted entrepreneurs, business leaders and tech-savvy visionaries who are constantly taking the business world to new heights. It’s no secret that here, at ColoradoBiz, we love the Colorado business community. That’s why, every year, we spotlight the most impressive CEOs throughout our Centennial state and give credit where credit is due — to the forward-thinking minds constantly chasing the next great idea and upholding their business practices to the most purposeful ideals. We’re proud to introduce our finalists for CoBiz’s prestigious 2022 CEO of the Year award.


Vinay Nair

Founder & CEO

TIFIN

Boulder, Colorado

Website: tifin.com

Vinay Nair is a serial entrepreneur, academic and author whose latest venture, TIFIN, is harnessing data, AI and other technologies to improve wealth management practices and outcomes.  

The Boulder-based platform — TIFIN stands for “Technology In Finance” — started as a fintech incubator in 2018 and became an operating business in 2020. TIFIN consists of four divisions, each with a specific focus: Magnifi, an advanced investment search and discovery marketplace for intermediaries and retail brokerages to democratize investment intelligence; TIFIN Wealth, which uses AI to transform client personalization and intelligence for wealth intermediaries such as financial advisers, workplaces, neo-banks and other consumer fintechs; TIFIN AMP, which combines marketing, data science and sales capabilities to drive more intelligent distribution; and TIFIN.AI, which the company describes as a ”thematic innovation platform designed to launch companies that provide B2B AI assistants for better wealth outcomes.” 

READ: AI in Mobile App Development — Top 8 Tools and Strategies

Previously Nair founded and led 55ip, another fintech company used by financial advisers to improve their efficiency and effectiveness, which was acquired by JPMorgan Chase.  

Nair holds a Ph.D. in financial economics from the Stern School of Business at New York University, where he was awarded best thesis. He began his career as a faculty member at The Wharton School. After launching and managing a quantitative hedge fund that led him to start 55ip in 2016, he launched TIFIN to tap into the potential of science and technology to deliver better investor experiences and results. 

With 245 employees, TIFIN has attracted ample investor interest, most recently a Series C round valued at $447 million that included support from existing investors J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Morningstar and Broadridge, while adding investment management firm Hamilton Lane to its pool of investors. 

 

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CEO of the Year 2023 Finalist: Steve Swinney

Colorado is full of devoted entrepreneurs, business leaders and tech-savvy visionaries who are constantly taking the business world to new heights. It’s no secret that here, at ColoradoBiz, we love the Colorado business community. That’s why, every year, we spotlight the most impressive CEOs throughout our Centennial state and give credit where credit is due — to the forward-thinking minds constantly chasing the next great idea and upholding their business practices to the most purposeful ideals. We’re proud to introduce our finalists for CoBiz’s prestigious 2022 CEO of the Year award.


Steve Swinney

Founder and CEO

Kodiak Building Partners

Highlands Ranch, Colorado

Website: kodiakbp.com

Under Steve Swinney, Kodiak Building Partners acquired seven new companies in the last year and grew to more than 6,000 employees, a 5 percent increase from 2022. Since 2019, Kodiak has more than doubled its staff to become one of the largest private employers in the state. 

After an impressive career in finance, acquisitions and private equity-backed ventures, Swinney launched KBP in 2011 with the idea of bringing economy of scale to the building-materials sector with a decentralized business model. Since its founding, the company has acquired interests in more than 100 locations in 25 states. 

A key to KBP’s strategy has been Swinney’s belief in preserving the individual cultures and identities of acquired companies. For example, Kodiak maintains a small corporate team that supports, rather than controls, acquired companies, thus avoiding excessive layers of management/corporate regulation. It’s also an affirming nod to the people who made these acquired companies desirable in the first place.  

In 2017, Swinney established The Kodiak Building Partners Foundation to expand the company’s capabilities for philanthropic giving, which surpassed $1 million in 2022. The foundation facilitates Kodiak’s operating partners in collecting donations for various organizations and enables Kodiak to accept donations to help employees in need. He also introduced the “Patriot Project” at Kodiak to support the Tunnel to Towers Foundation and its mission to assist families of American veterans and first responders. The month-long initiative raised more than $20,000 for Tunnel to Towers. 

 

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CEO of the Year 2023 Finalist: Peter Svedin

PETER SVEDIN 

Founder and CEO: Lifetime Windows & Siding

Denver, Colorado

Website: lifetimewindows.com 

Peter Svedin grew up in Sweden, dreaming of playing professional hockey and idolizing former Colorado Avalanche great Peter Forsberg. But business, not hockey, would be Svedin’s destiny. He came to the United States on a student visa, and in 2006 he took a job in Denver, selling windows. 

“I knew I could do it better,” he says. In 2009, from his one-bedroom apartment, Svedin devised a winning formula that would combine sales, customer service and high-quality products. Lifetime Windows & Siding was born. Today the home-remodeling company generates annual sales of $65 million, with 150 employees and locations throughout the Denver and Phoenix metro areas. Along with windows and siding, the company’s offerings have expanded to include doors, baths and showers, roofing and solar. From 2021 to 2022, the company’s sales grew 21 percent. 

“At Lifetime, we believe growing people is the key to our success,” Svedin says. “The way we take care of our people is how our people are going to take care of our customers.” 

The company supports a number of community causes. Through the Stout Street Foundation, Lifetime offers employment and mentorship to program participants and graduates. Since 2021, it has helped provide 1.4 million meals to Food Bank of the Rockies through donations and on-site volunteering. It has partnered with other suppliers for the Veterans Community Project of Longmont to provide roof and solar supplies for 26 homes in a veterans’ tiny home community; it supports Firefly Autism by providing campus building solutions and sponsoring annual events; and it partners with the Colorado Rockies to sponsor the annual Strike Out Hunger program, contributing approximately 10 meals for each strikeout to the Food Bank of the Rockies.  

 

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CEO of the Year 2023: Kerry Siggins 

Some lead by example, others by words. Kerry Siggins, CEO of Durango-based StoneAge Inc., is one of those rare leaders seemingly adept at both: equipped with the perspective of someone who knows what it’s like to hit rock bottom, and with a gift for convincing those around her to reach for their dreams. 

Siggins, a Colorado School of Mines grad, took the helm at StoneAge 14 years ago at age 30. In that time, she’s helped guide the company to consistent sales growth and developments such as the 2020 acquisition of Nevada-based Breadware, an industrial IoT product-development company; and last year’s acquisition of Terydon, an Ohio-based waterjet company that will expand StoneAge’s development and adoption of fully automated robotic solutions. Siggins was StoneAge’s 33rd employee when she was hired as director of operations; the company now employs more than 200.  

Siggins also is the author of  “The Ownership Mindset: A Handbook for Transforming Your Life and Leadership,” which she wrote during the pandemic. Launched in October, the book covers her own transformative journey, from the darkness of substance abuse to recovery, to CEO of a worldwide leader in the manufacturing and design of high-pressure water-blasting tools used in industrial cleaning. 

An ownership mindset is not just a catchphrase for Siggins. It’s what she’s sought to instill at StoneAge, too. Though it offered profit-sharing when she came aboard, the company became 100 percent employee-owned in January this year, capping an eight-year process of buying back shares from existing shareholders that started when the company formed an ESOP (employee stock ownership plan) in 2015. For Siggins, the ESOP is a critical piece of StoneAge’s “own-it” culture. 

READ: Building a Strong ESOP Employee Culture — Five Lessons Learned for Success

“We want people to think and act like owners, where they take responsibility for their work ethic, for their efforts, their attitudes, their teamwork, how they show up every day,” Siggins says. “We want this to be a place where people feel like they can be their very best selves, where they can live their dreams while working. You have to create a culture that says, ‘Hey, we’re all in this together, and we’re going to win together. If we have to tighten our belts, we’re going to do that together, but as the company is successful, we’re going to share in that success with you.’” 

Contrary to its name, StoneAge has been synonymous with innovation since its beginning in 1979. Founders Jerry Zink and John Wolgamott met at Colorado School of Mines in the late 1970s and developed a water-blasting tool that would bore through rock. 

“The rock-drilling equipment we developed in the laboratory at CSM caught the attention of the energy companies that were investing heavily in underground uranium mining in New Mexico and Colorado,” Zink says. “John saw the opportunity to launch into private manufacturing.” 

That opportunity proved fleeting. The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant meltdown in 1979 caused the appeal of nuclear power to dim and the demand for uranium to plummet. 

Zink and Wolgamott pivoted, though, and soon found there was a robust demand for their high-pressure water-blasting equipment in industrial cleaning applications. Today StoneAge holds hundreds of patents and sells its products throughout the world, with more than 100 dealers in about 30 countries. 

Siggins seemed a natural fit for the growing Southwest Colorado company when she applied for a job in late 2006. She grew up in Montrose and after college had been working in Austin, Texas, when she returned to Colorado’s Western Slope. She was hired at StoneAge in 2007 as director of operations at the age of 28. Less than three years later, the company’s board of directors named her CEO. 

Though young for the job, it didn’t hurt that founders Zink and Wolgamott also had backgrounds with the School of Mines, the state’s premier engineering and applied-science university. It also impressed Zink that she’d thrived as a student-athlete, a four-year letter winner and three-year captain on the Mines softball team. 

“Her path through Colorado School of Mines as a woman on an athletic scholarship demonstrated grit,” Zink says. “She listened well and convinced me she was prepared to learn our inventive, small-company, disruptive culture.” 

Siggins considers her mother, Sue Petranek, one of the inspirations that gave her confidence she could succeed in a male-dominated field. A single parent, Petanek raised Siggins and her brother in Montrose, working two or three jobs. When Siggins was 12, her mother returned to college to earn her teaching degree, driving 60 miles from Montrose to Gunnison to attend school while still holding down two jobs. 

Another source of inspiration for Siggins was her grandfather, who relocated from the Midwest to Montrose and bought an army surplus store, which he converted to a sporting goods outlet. At 12, Siggins convinced her grandfather to let her work in the store, and she often tended to celebrities who stopped in to shop for cold-weather gear on their way to tony Telluride. Siggins recalls those encounters as her first inkling of an exciting world out there awaiting discovery. 

StoneAge is on the move, too, from a business-development standpoint, increasingly tech-driven in its product offerings. 

“We will always be manufacturing, but we’re building our own software platform,” Siggins says, citing robotics and software that will enable customers to make better decisions about how they’re cleaning equipment and how they’re training their employees. “That will lead to developing efficiency ratings for the overall hydro-blasting system, which will help our customers with their sustainability goals.” 

Siggins is immersed in many causes, most of them stemming from her desire to share experiences and ideas as a thought leader. She’s a frequent speaker at schools, including her alma mater, and other venues; along with appearances for her book, she maintains a blog and podcast on her website, kerrysiggins.com; she sits on Gov. Jared Polis’ Commission for Employee Ownership; she’s vice president of the Waterjet Technology Association, the industry’s safety organization; and she’s partnered with two former School of Mines softball players to spearhead a fundraising campaign to upgrade the team’s facilities and playing field. 

Siggins also hopes to encourage girls in their formative years to consider STEM careers. StoneAge serves as a welcoming example. 

“Half of the executive team here is female, and we have women in all kinds of positions throughout the company,” she says. “We have women in mechanic positions, we have women in assembly positions, in engineering positions. I think because we’re a women-led company with so many women in leadership positions, it makes it a safe place for women to apply for those types of jobs.” 

As for why women tend to be under-represented in STEM fields, she says, “I think it’s a complex answer. I know many, many women who I think would have made fantastic engineers, but they didn’t believe in themselves in those really formative years of junior high and high school where you would need to start making those decisions to get on that track, because they had self-doubt about their math skills. Then, I think part of it is that it’s tough to make it in a male-dominated industry, right? I recognize that it’s not easy to be in a male-dominated school or a male-dominant industry if you don’t feel like you belong.” But, she says, “The reasons are different for every single person out there.” 

CEOs tend to wear many hats, but Siggins has a clear vision of what her most important role at StoneAge is: “My number one job is to hire the right people on the team and create a culture that attracts the people who are going to help us drive our vision forward, and then inspire them to do their very best work and to be their very best self,” she says. “When people feel inspired, when people are engaged, when people are on fire about what they do, you drive results. So my number one job is to ensure we have a culture that attracts and retains the kind of people who want to be here helping us change the world.” 

 

Mike TaylorMike Taylor is the editor of ColoradoBiz.

Seth Anderson — CEO of the Year Finalist 2022

Colorado is full of devoted entrepreneurs, business leaders and tech-savvy visionaries who are constantly taking the business world to new heights. It’s no secret that here, at ColoradoBiz, we love the Colorado business community. That’s why, every year, we spotlight the most impressive CEOs throughout our Centennial state and give credit where credit is due — to the forward-thinking minds constantly chasing the next great idea and upholding their business practices to the most purposeful ideals. We’re proud to introduce our finalists for CoBiz’s prestigious 2022 CEO of the Year award.

READ: 2022 CEO of the Year — John Street

 

Seth Anderson  
CEO, Weifield Electrical Contracting 
Centennial 

Seth Anderson started Weifield in 2002 with three other owners during a downturned economy — in the basement of a partner’s home. Today Weifield is the third-largest of the top 11 electrical contractors in the region, with annual revenues exceeding $158 million — and climbing. 

Karla Nugent, Weifield’s chief business development officer, credits the 48-year-old Anderson with keeping the company, now 580 employees strong, on the cutting edge of the industry. 

“We were one of the first to utilize LiveCount estimating systems, Trimble robotic stations, and other technologies – which really unified our workflow, from preconstruction to operations to prefabrication,” she says. “We were also the first to invest in our own virtual modeling company, which does work for ourselves and other companies. He really pushed to make Weifield more innovative – and others followed.” 

The company’s innovative thinking is also apparent in its formation of the Weifield Council, a cross-functional group that advances Weifield’s corporate initiatives and resolves issues – as well as Weifield’s Up-and-Coming Leaders (WULF) group, which grows promising young apprentices into leaders in the field.