Courtesy DPR Construction

Top Young Professional Maisie Gwynne Ingram, senior project manager at DPR Construction, served as integration manager for the Kaiser Permanente Medical Office Building project in Lakewood, Colo. She is one of 25 emerging regional leaders who ENR will recognize,.

The 2027 Top Young Professionals for the ENR Mountain States & Southwest region have been selected! The program, held annually by each of ENR's regional editions, recognizes rising construction and design leaders, all under 40, who demonstrate excellence in their careers, leadership roles and communities. 

The Mountain States and Southwest awardees will be featured in the March 1 issue of the magazine, detailing their successes and careers so far. This year our industry judges reviewed more than 70 applications from the region and chose 25 individuals for award.

The judges are former Top Young Pros Jennyfer LaBuff, director of data engineering and application development at Sundt Construction; Yanling Leng, chief bridge engineer with IMEG Corp.; and Ethan Walton, a project director for McCarthy Building Cos. A sincere thank you to our judges for their time and talent, as we could not hold this competition without you. 

Judges did not score applications from individuals working at their same firm or with whom they had any conflicts of interest. 

Each regional winner is automatically entered into ENR's national Top 20 Under 40 contest and those winners will be announced at a later date.

Congratulations to the 2027 Top Young Professionals awardees who are listed alphabetically below: 

Gwyndolyn Anderson

Partner

Studio Red Architects

Littleton, Colo.

Alex Anstey

Market Leader

Willmeng Construction

Phoenix

Will Carpenter

Director of Estimating & Preconstruction

CODA Construction Group

Denver

Ashley Clark

Director of Business Development

Mortenson

Denver

Brian Clark

Senior Project Manager

Adolfson & Peterson Construction

Aurora, Colo.

JT Core

Project Executive

Felix Construction Co.

Phoenix

Aimee Corn

Senior Structural Engineer, Group Leader Geotechnical Dams & Hydraulics, Office Principal

GFT Infrastructure

Greenwood Village, Colo.

DJ Gratzer

Principal

4240 Architecture Inc.

Denver

Christine Herrick

Structural Engineer

Kimley-Horn

Salt Lake City

Cooper Hicks

Project Executive

Felix Construction Co.

Phoenix

Maisie Gwynne Ingram

Senior Project Manager

DPR Construction

Greenwood Village, Colo.

Jason Karseboom

Operations Manager, Arizona

Rosendin Electric

Tempe

Nishanth Kathula

Design Manager

Performance Contracting Inc. (PCI)

Phoenix

Tyler Kay

Water/Wastewater Engineer

Kimley-Horn

Phoenix

Kyle LeBrasse

Water Department Manager

Burns & McDonnell

Englewood, Colo.

David Micnhimer

Director of Engineering

BCS Fabrication

Loveland, Colo.

Jaren Murphy

President

McCarthy Building Cos.

Phoenix

Kaya Orona

Preconstruction Manager

The PENTA Building Group

Phoenix

Brian Rankin

Director of Project Development

Saunders Construction Inc.

Englewood, Colo.

Tim Rhine

Vice President

Kimley-Horn

Tucson

Brody Riggs

Vice President of Construction

Riggs Cos.

Phoenix

Jamie Safulko

Area Manager, Civil West, U.S. Civil Infrastructure

PCL Construction Services Inc.

Denver

Michael Sukeyasu

Chief Operating Officer

Leading Edge Scaffold

Las Vegas

Alex Troyer

Executive Vice President, Internal Operations

Corbins, a Nox Group Co.

Phoenix

Ali Zalghout

Senior Civil Engineer

AECOM

Phoenix

ENR Senior Editor Jennifer Seward covers the Mountain States & Southwest region, which includes Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. She has more than two decades of experience writing for the AEC industry and reports from Denver.