Aaron Retherford has been promoted to president of Kadean Construction, based in St. Louis. He will oversee business strategy and organizational alignment while leading the industrial business unit and advancing Kadean’s business unit model. He joined Kadean in 2020 as Vice President of Business Strategy. Kadean has aligned the operations of its healthcare business unit across the country under the leadership of Travis Muldervice president Mulder will also oversee the work of the company’s commercial business unit in St. Louis and Kansas City. Jim Driscoll has been named vice president of industrial strategy to focus on guiding industrial customers through early decision-making, facility assessment and long-term planning. Joe Kelley has been promoted to senior director of business strategy. He will oversee inside sales coordination, pipeline governance and consistency in early customer engagement across all business units.
Burns & McDonnell has made several promotions in its Kansas City, Missouri office. Chris Freeman was elevated to director and food and beverage leader of the global facilities group; Julie Koncak now director of community relations and foundation; Mike Lombardo is general manager, transmission and distribution group; Andy Mashek is a Department of Defense project manager for the aviation and federal group; Brad Schilhab is director of field operations for the construction group; Jim Swanski is Chief Information Officer of Corporate Services; Shallis Winder is a project manager for the oil, gas and chemical group; i Andy Wozniak director of operations for the Great Lakes region, based in the Chicago office.
Columbus, Ohio-based VanTrust Real Estate has promoted Anna Brown from development manager to director of development. In this role, you will focus on identifying, evaluating and executing on both speculative and speculative development opportunities. In addition, Alex Lord has been appointed Director of Development Services. Prior to joining VanTrust, Lord spent more than a decade with The Opus Group in the Minneapolis and Phoenix offices.
The construction company PARIC, which has offices in St. Louis and Kansas City, has promoted Michael Picker to the new position of vice president of strategic growth. In his new role, Picker, who has more than 25 years of construction experience, will be responsible for the growth and development strategy to maintain and enhance the company’s current and recent growth.
Nexus, a Cleveland-based engineering, contracting and construction management firm, has promoted Jason Didion to the senior director of engineering and Steve Wilson i Gary Ventimiglia to the engineering directors. The appointments reflect Nexus’ continued investment in leadership development and technical capabilities to support growth in its offices in Cleveland, Maumee and Midland, Ohio, and Oak Brook, Illinois.
Ellen Zimmer has joined Tarlton, a general contracting and construction management firm based in St. Louis, as chief financial officer and vice president to oversee the company’s financial strategy, accounting, treasury and long-term planning initiatives. Tarlton has also promoted Michael Trettel to the senior vice president. Trettel will provide executive oversight and drive growth in Tarlton’s energy, industrial, water/wastewater and civil markets, as well as special projects and self-execution groups. Trettel joined Tarlton in 2022 as director of strategic markets.
Cincinnati, Ohio-based Messer Construction has promoted seven employees: Brian Campbell to the Vice President of Operations for the Cincinnati office, Jason Brett to the vice president of operations in the Columbus office and Jim Glassener to the vice president of operations in the Indianapolis office. In addition, Matt Barney has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Jason Aspinwall has been named vice president of development at craftforce and Kyle Kingery i Bruce Tumlin senior project executives have been appointed.
