During his more than two decades with GCI, Kaczmarek has worked on a variety of projects, including many of the company’s largest, such as the City of Marquette Municipal Service Center, Eagle Mine Humboldt Mill, as well as the Ojibwa Casinos in Marquette and Baraga. As President, his responsibilities include complete oversight and management of the Gundlach Champion business unit under the Champion, Inc. family of companies.
Kaczmarek is a graduate of Bessemer High School in Bessemer Michigan. He earned a degree in civil engineering from Michigan Technological University.
Gundlach Champion, Inc. is the marriage of two firms: Herman Gundlach, Inc. founded in 1898, and Champion, Inc. founded in 1921. For over a century, GCI has been providing preconstruction and project delivery systems to the commercial, educational, health care, industrial, and public facilities markets throughout the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the Midwest.