Midwest People: Construction business updates for November 2017
Lance Cage, who led HOK’s St. Louis office as managing principal, has left to join AECOM Buildings + Places as COO in the Americas. Before becoming managing principal of HOK’s St. Louis office in June 2016, Cage was the institutional business unit leader for St. Louis-based Clayco Inc. for six years. Prior to that he was a project manager for St. Louis-based ARCO Construction Co. for eight years.
Pete Burney has joined Kansas City-based JE Dunn Construction as vice president and director of diversity inclusion and compliance. Lesley Elwell has been hired by the contractor as chief people officer. Elwell, who has held similar roles at WalMart, Spring and DirecTV, will head JE Dunn’s human resources team. Burney will work with the contractor’s diversity team and legal/compliance teams to focus on internal project support, supply chain identification and compliance with government and municipal contracting programs. Burney previously worked for Hallmark for the past 27 years, most recently as senior vice president of supply chain and business enablement.