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DPR Construction, one of the nation’s top technical builders, announced three key leadership transitions in the Southwest region. These moves strengthen DPR’s expertise in technical building and reinforce DPR’s dedication to bringing best-in-class construction solutions to customers throughout Southern California and Arizona.
Gretchen Kinsella transitions to lead the region’s self-perform work teams as the Southwest Region Self-Perform Work (SPW) Leader after years of work leading DPR’s Arizona operations. Nathan Lentz will lead DPR’s Arizona Business Unit, encompassing the Phoenix and Tucson offices. Marc Ness will serve as a co-leader alongside Alicia Loh Ortiz of DPR’s Southern California Business Unit which comprises the firm’s Newport Beach and Pasadena offices.
Gretchen Kinsella joined DPR as an intern in 2001 and has since gained extensive experience in risk management, operations, people development and work acquisition, leading her to be the youngest DPR project executive in Phoenix. With project experience across DPR’s core markets and a keen understanding of how self-perform work drives value for customers, Kinsella will scale her expertise to support the region.
“I am excited to step into this region-wide role and continue building on the successes our project teams and self-perform crews have produced,” said Kinsella. “Our industry faces an acute labor shortage while our customers depend on speed-to-market and quality work. We believe self-perform work can help alleviate these pressures and drive predictable outcomes even in times of market uncertainty.”
Taking Kinsella’s role is Nathan Lentz, who joined DPR in 2010 and has served in several leadership roles, including as DPR’s Special Services Group (SSG) Lead and as the Business Unit Leader for Digital Building Components, a manufacturer of prefabricated custom exterior wall systems. In his new role, he will combine best practices from those tenures and help Arizona-based projects leverage them to the benefit of customers.
In Southern California, Marc Ness will work alongside Alicia Loh Ortiz in leading teams and projects across the region. Ness joined DPR as a project manager in 2014 and most recently served as the Southwest Region Self-Perform Work Leader. Ness brings knowledge from the field and years of self-perform experience that he plans to scale across Southern California to help customers assess value and provide cost and schedule certainty.
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