MidAtlantic People: Construction business updates for October 2019
Wayne Stocks, managing principal at Thornton Tomasetti’s Washington, D.C.-based office, will become the firm’s president as of Jan. 1. He will lead the company’s business units, along with San Francisco-based managing director Gary Panariello as part of the New York City-based design firm’s larger management succession. Stocks, who has experience in structural design, construction and project management for new buildings and historic structures, has collaborated with private-sector and government clients on a diverse portfolio of education, hospitality, health care, entertainment, office and mixed-use projects. Stocks, who is on the Thornton Tomasetti Foundation’s board of governors—served in the Peace Corps designing farm structures in Nepal before joining Thornton Tomasetti in 1992.