Ingrams September 2023

Greg Graves PHILANTHROPIST, GRAVES FAMILY FOUNDATION

Mike Heitmann PRESIDENT/CEO, GARNEY CONSTRUCTION

This retired Burns & McDonnell CEO hasn’t been letting the grass grow under his feet. He’s a frequent flyer on influential boards, including the University of Kansas Health System and UMB Financial. He and his wife, Deanna, continue their devotion to The Barstow School, which has celebrated the opening of both the Graves Family Faculty Lounge and the new Graves Family Baseball Stadium. Word on the street is that he and Deanna have a major new fundraising effort in the works.

After 33 years with just one company, Mike Heitmann’s last rodeo is winding down: The water infrastructure builder has announced that he’s turning the reins over at the end of this month, and exiting the stage next spring. What he leaves behind is a national power. It has grown from just under $300 million since he took command in 2011 and last year stood at $1.5 billion in revenues and had a workforce 1,000 stronger than he found it.

COLLEGE: B.S., Mechanical Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines RECESSION ODDS: “The American economy is incredibly resilient, and the glide path certainly looks ‘soft landing’ to me. All credit to the American worker, who always seems to rise to the occasion.” ON THE NEW KCI: “A long overdue project that the city needed desperately. Glad it’s done … on to bigger things.” MORNING READ: “One chapter from Create Amazing: Turning Your Employees into Owners keeps it fresh for me.” DREAM CHARITY MISSION : “To put the joy back in teaching.” EMPLOYEES: Across the range of his board and personal interests with the health system, bank school and foundation, he expects all to be slightly up with near-term hiring.

COLLEGE: B.S., Architectural Engineering, University of Kansas SUCCESSION: The company announced just this month that Heitmann’s successor would be David Burkhart, who also has been a career Garney employee. MORE MOVES: Heitmann isn’t going out alone; Scott Parrish, the company’s president, is also retiring. The C-suite furniture is being rearranged with a pair of presidents—Matt Foster in pipeline operations and Matt Reaves for plant operations. WHAT LIES AHEAD?: “My wife and I plan to travel. We have four daughters in all different parts of the country. I’m hoping I won’t miss many KU football and basketball games. I also enjoy restoring old homes, and have done several and have got another in the works—Sauer Castle. It’s a beautiful home and I’m excited about tackling it in my retirement.”

Jason Hendricks PRESIDENT/CEO, PERFORMANCE CONTRACTING GROUP Jason Hendricks’ stint in baseball’s major leagues further stoked the competitive fire he had playing for the Arizona Wildcats in college, and it carried over to the world of business for one of the region’s biggest construction services companies. His PCG team absolutely hit it out of the park last year, with a 17.72 percent increase in year over-year revenues. The firm is a specialty contractor in industrial, commercial, and non-residential markets.

Adam Hill PRESIDENT/CEO, THE SCARBROUGH GROUP

Adam Hill is proud to be part of a logistics enterprise that values the people who make it a success. Looking at the recent past, he says, “Growing our business and employee headcount in the current market was significant. While many of our competitors locally, re gionally, and nationally implemented layoffs, we stayed true to our team. While business may not be as bright as it was just 12 months ago, our dedication to our team remains unwavering.”

2022 REVENUES: $2.11 billion COLLEGE: B.S., Finance, University of Arizona QUOTABLE: What does leadership mean to Hendricks?

COLLEGE: B.A., William Jewell College; MBA, Fogelman College of Business & Economics, Univ of Memphis RECESSION: “During the Pandemic (MAY20-SEP22) companies quickly learned that their supply chains were one of their most valuable possessions as they could not sell what they did not have. That realization, along with excess stimulus funds flowing into consumers’ hands, created an inventory storm surge. As with any storm surge, the water (inventory) must recede to ‘normal.’ What we’re witnessing today (and have been since OCT22) is a slowly receding inventory. We have seen the volumes dip year-over-year (I don’t think we could have taken too many more months of the surge), but we are seeing a start of a return to normal levels. While the storm surge has peaked and is now receding, I do think it will take until the second half of next year (JUL24) to get back to where we need to be, and some normal shipping patterns start to emerge again.” NEXT BIG THING: “As KC has so much going for it right now, the focus should be turned to the World Cup and the international stage it will put Kansas City on.”

“It’s my mission to inspire a teamwork structure that harnesses the strength of the total and provides our organization opportunities for growth, innovation, and success,” he says. OFF THE CLOCK: Hendricks’ commitment to civic causes includes being a board member for CASA of Johnson & Wyandotte Counties; he’s also a supporter of the Susan G. Komen foundation’s breast cancer advocacy. CAREER PATH: Hendricks had a memorable 2020—a year many of us would like to forget—as he added CEO to the title of president, acquired just a year earlier. He started with the company in the Los Angeles office in 2003, rising through the ranks in branch operation, division, and corporate management roles.

Michael Hoehn PRESIDENT/CEO, ASI

Jason Hooper PRESIDENT/CEO, KVC HEALTH SYSTEMS

As leader of a thriving automated conveyor systems company, Mi chael Hoehn spent the past year revamping a system at the heart beat of his organization. ASI has implemented a new enterprise resource planning system and integrated it throughout the Kansas City parent’s operating companies. “It’s helped us re-imagine our business systems and processes from the ground up and kick off our future,” he said. It must be working: 2022 revenues were up more than 40 percent.

It might be hard to top the year Jason Hooper and his team of 2,400 have had at KVC: “We formed a joint venture with Children’s Mercy to build a best-in-class mental-wellness campus, welcomed St. Louis-based Great Circle’s 800 employees into the KVC family, and employee feedback about KVC’s culture made us a top 1 percent em ployer nationally on Indeed’s Work Wellbeing scale,” he beams. His enterprise addresses children’s mental-health issues at 60 locations

2022 REVENUES: $157 million COLLEGE: B.S., Psychology/Sociology, Baker University, M.S., Social Work, University of Kansas KC’S NEXT BIG THING: “Advancing well-being for all children and families. This includes early child hood education, healthcare including mental health, food, housing, and more.” ON THE NEW KCI: “Love it! Proud to be a Kansas Citian.”

2022 REVENUES: $342.15 million ON THE NEW KCI: “Fantastic. The front door to the city now reflects our world-class city.” SALUTING A MENTOR: “My dad taught me from a young age that business is about people. People buy from people they trust, they stay or leave companies because of the people, and we work hard to win because it’s fun to do it with people you enjoy.” ESSENTIAL LEADERSHIP SKILL: “The ability to see and connect the big picture vision all the way down to the daily tasks needed to execute on that vision.”

SALUTING A MENTOR: “My Mom is a mentor to me in many ways. She taught me to work hard, tell the truth, and always do the right thing.”

BEST BUSINESS BOOK: “One of my favorite reads is Let My People Go Surfing , by Yvon Chouinard.” LEADERSHIP HIRE TRAIT: “At KVC, we promote leaders from within as often as possible because those leaders embody our values. That’s how we shape culture.”

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