Carolinas AGC Well-Represented on Business NC’s 2025 Power List

May 21, 2025

Carolinas AGC members and staff account for 26 award recipients on this year’s prestigious Business North Carolina’s Power List.

Business North Carolina recently released its fifth edition of the Power List, providing detailed information on the state’s most influential business and nonprofit leaders.

In its annual magazine detailing the Power List recipients, Business North Carolina says: “As noted annually, North Carolina’s population of 11 million includes many outstanding leaders, making this a small, subjective sampling of those with notable power.”

The Power List is divided into 17 categories, including Real Estate & Construction and Legal, representing a wide range of about 500 industry influencers. While executives at for-profit companies dominate, the list includes many leaders of nonprofit organizations that play key business and civic roles. The 2025 Power List recipients were honored at a reception in Raleigh on May 15th at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences.

 

Ty Edmondson,
Chair
CAGC’s Board of Directors

Mark Johnnie,
Past Chair
CAGC’s Board of Directors 

Dave Simpson,
President & CEO
Carolinas AGC 

CAGC Power List Recipients:

(read the full list here)

Real Estate and Construction:

Ty Edmondson, CEO, T.A. Loving, Current Chair of Carolinas AGC’s Board of Directors Dave Simpson, President & CEO, CAGC Mark Johnnie, COO, Balfour Beatty, Past Chair of CAGC’s Board of Directors Brian Allen, CEO, Precision Walls Mark Balling, Executive VP, General Manager, Skanska USA Rob Barnhill, Barnhill Contracting

John Dudas, Division Manager, Choate Construction Baker Glasgow, President, Clancy & Theys Construction Zeb Hadley, CEO, National Coatings Mike Lancaster, CEO, Blum Construction Eric Reichard, CEO, Rodgers Builders Eddie Vannoy, CEO, Vannoy Construction

Law:

Dan Cahill, Managing Partner, Poyner & Spruill, LLP Bradley Evans, Co-Managing Director, Ward and Smith Kimberly Bullock Gatling, Partner, Fox Rothschild LLP Tom Griffin, Managing Partner, Parker Poe & Bernstein

Byron Kirkland, Managing Partner, Smith Anderson Chris Kouri, Managing Shareholder, Maynard Nexsen Perry Safran, President, Safran Law Offices Devon Williams, Co-Managing Director, Ward and Smith, P. A.

Manufacturing

Hooper Hardison, Charlotte Pipe & Foundry Ward Nye, Martin Marietta

Glenn Sherrill, Steel Fab

Professional Services

Jim Canfield, Withers Ravenel

Jim Parker, Summit Design and Engineering Services

Economic Development

Kevin Price, CEO, National Institute of Minority Economic Development

Non-Member CAGC Allies:
Meantime, while they are not CAGC members, several Power List recipients have often spoken to CAGC and heavily influenced our commercial construction industry, including:

Christopher Chung, CEO, Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (Economic Development) John Kane, Founder/Chair, Kane Realty (Real Estate & Construction)

Michael Fox, Past Chair, NC Board of Transportation (Transportation)