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virtually. The 2020 North Carolina Virtual Kidney Walk It has been a privilege to be a part of a team
will take place on Sunday, November 11. Registration dedicated to Gray, the customer, and their team.
can be found on the website: www.kidney.org/events/ A big shoutout to all the team members who are
kidney-walk/2020-charlotte-kidney-walk. making this group a success both from a field and
Last but not least we want to welcome our new office standpoint! Thank you for all your hard work!
team members to the Charlotte Office: Sonny
Johnson, Matt Pursley, Ben Poor, Mike Smith, and
Nick Nolen. A big congratulations to our newly Gray Architects &
promoted team members: Brooks Robinson (APM) Engineers
and Erik Nelson (APM). with Dowell Hoskins
President
We’re excited to start our new fiscal year. We'll be
nurturing new customer relationships, staying in touch This has definitely been an
with current and past customers and watching our interesting summer with approximately half of our
South Atlantic team continue to thrive. team members continuing to work from home,
8 however we have remained effective and connected
(albeit virtually) during this time. We have had many
Mission Critical professional and personal achievements in the last
with Ben Meurer couple of months. Currently, we are executing the
Vice President, largest design contract in Gray AE’s history with
Mission Critical Market
the Nestlé Purina Green Acres project. This team is
doing an outstanding job staying engaged with the
These are exciting times in the Mission Critical customer, collaborating with the Gray, Inc. family of
Group! We have recently become our own business companies, and expanding our Food & Beverage
unit, moved to a new space, and continued to resumé. We also have fantastic sales opportunities
win work. on the horizon, and I anticipate that Fiscal Year 21 will
As I have reflected on the past year and a half, be a record year in terms of revenue for Gray AE. Our
I am amazed at what the team has been able to team members have also recently had some personal
accomplish. We started with 0 experience, $0 in achievements and milestones – Emilio Santellan and
awarded projects, and 0 Mission Critical dedicated Abbey Li got married; Bryan Gatlin and Shelby Ewing
team members. Fast forward, we now have projects got married; Josh Cecil welcomed a new daughter,
in two regions, approximately $600 million in sales Lennyn; Arein Natour completed her Masters Degree
to date, and backlog for the next 2-3 years. We in Architecture; Adam Logsdon and Zach Becks
were recently awarded Operation Darkhorse and we became registered architects; and we also welcomed
are currently proposing on the remaining PDX-090 three new team members, Hussein Isaac, Seth Gover
buildings, both of which are campus awards. It has (welcome back) and Mike Smith. We are continuing
been a pleasure watching our team members turn to grow our team in AE and looking forward to a great
three zeros into where we are currently. Fiscal Year 21!
With success comes growth. Our team has
evolved from the initial PDX-090 team to the 23
team members we have now. Both the site and
project management staff truly exhibit one our core
values: they are customer and relationship driven.
The success we have experienced thus far is a direct
result of this commitment.
