Courtesy DPR Construction
Best Young Professional Maisie Gwynne Ingram, senior project manager at DPR Construction, served as a project integration manager for the Kaiser Permanente Medical Office Building in Lakewood, Colorado. He is one of 25 emerging regional leaders that ENR will recognize.
The Top Young Professionals of 2027 have been selected for ENR’s Mountain States and Southwest Region! The program, hosted annually by each of ENR’s regional editions, recognizes emerging leaders in construction and design, all under the age of 40, who demonstrate excellence in their careers, leadership roles and communities.
The Mountain States and Southwest honorees will be featured in the March 1 issue of the magazine, detailing their accomplishments and careers to date. This year, our industry judges reviewed more than 70 applications from the region and chose 25 people to be awarded.
The judges are former Top Young Pros Jennyfer LaBuff, director of data engineering and application development at Sundt Construction; Yanling Leng, chief bridge engineer of IMEG Corp.; and Ethan Walton, project manager for McCarthy Building Cos. A sincere thank you to our judges for their time and talent, as we could not hold this competition without you.
Judges did not score applications from people who worked at the same company or with whom they had conflicts of interest.
Each regional winner is automatically entered into ENR’s national Top 20 Under 40 contest and those winners will be announced at a later date.
Congratulations to the Best Young Professionals of 2027 honorees listed alphabetically below:
Gwyndolyn Anderson
partner
Studio Red Architects
Littleton, Colo.
Alex Anstey
Market leader
Willmeng construction
phoenix
Will Carpenter
Director of Estimation and Preconstruction
CODA Constructor Group
Denver
Ashley Clark
Director of Business Development
mortenson
Denver
Brian Clark
Senior project manager
Adolfson & Peterson Construction
Aurora, Colo.
JT Core
Project executive
Felix Construction Company
phoenix
Aimee Corn
Senior Structural Engineer, Geotechnical Dams and Hydraulics Group Leader, Office Manager
GFT infrastructure
Greenwood Village, Colo.
DJ Gratzer
principal
4240 Architecture Inc.
Denver
Christine Herrick
Structural Engineer
Kimley-Horn
Salt Lake City
Cooper Hicks
Project executive
Felix Construction Company
phoenix
Maisie Gwynne Ingram
Senior project manager
DPR construction
Greenwood Village, Colo.
Jason Karseboom
Director of Operations, Arizona
Electric Rosendin
weather
Nishanth Kathula
Design manager
Performance Contracting Inc. (PCI)
phoenix
Tyler Kay
Water/Wastewater Engineer
Kimley-Horn
phoenix
Kyle LeBrasse
Head of the Water Department
Burns and McDonnell
Englewood, Colo.
David Michnhimer
Director of Engineering
BCS manufacturing
Loveland, Colo.
Jaren Murphy
president
McCarthy Building Cos.
phoenix
So Orona
Responsible for pre-construction
The PENTA Construction Group
phoenix
Brian Rankin
Director of Project Development
Saunders Construction Inc.
Englewood, Colo.
Tim Rhine
vice president
Kimley-Horn
Tucson
Brody Riggs
Vice President of Construction
Riggs Corp.
phoenix
Jamie Safulko
Area Manager, Civil West, US Civil Infrastructure
PCL Construction Services Inc.
Denver
Michael Sukeyasu
Director of Operations
Cutting-edge scaffolding
las vegas
Alex Troyer
Executive Vice President, Internal Operations
Corbins, at Nox Group Co.
phoenix
Ali Zalghout
Senior Road Engineer
AECOM
phoenix
