Bryan Kuster, who previously served as Senior Vice President, Business Unit Leader in the McCarthy Southwest Region, has been promoted to Southern Region President. McCarthy’s Southern Region maintains offices in Austin, Channel View, Dallas, and Houston, Texas, as well as Atlanta, Georgia. Both Jouvenal and Kuster will be based in the firm’s Dallas office.
“McCarthy has been building across the southern U.S. for more than four decades, and these leadership transitions represent our ongoing commitment to the region,” said Ray Sedey, Chairman and CEO of McCarthy. “Having worked alongside Joe and Bryan for years, I have full confidence in their abilities to succeed in their new roles. Joe is well known across the Southern Region and among his employee-partners for his willingness to collaborate and to lead cross-functional teams. Bryan is an outstanding business leader who has a proven track-record of building strong client relationships and high performing teams.”
In his new role, Jouvenal will oversee the day-to-day management of the firm’s national departments, including facilitating national collaboration with regional offices and strategy to support the growth and scale of the organization.
Jouvenal began his career with McCarthy in 1998 as a Project Engineer and moved up to Project Director as he gained experience working on some of the company’s most challenging projects, including work for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, a National Emerging Infectious Disease laboratories project at Boston University Medical Center, and the Parker H. Petit Science Center at Georgia State University.
Jouvenal joined the Dallas office as Vice President of Operations in 2012, and was promoted to Senior Vice President in 2016, Executive Vice President in 2018, and ultimately Regional President in 2019. In these roles he led management and operations while assisting with preconstruction strategy.
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Jouvenal is an active advocate for industry and workforce development and is involved in community organizations, including sitting on the boards of Children’s Health of Dallas Foundation and the American Heart Association in Dallas. Jouvenal earned a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Kuster has been with McCarthy for 17 years, and prior to his transition to Dallas, served as Senior Vice President and Business Unit Leader in the McCarthy Southwest Region. Specializing in higher education and commercial construction, Kuster’s team has completed dozens of projects in Arizona and New Mexico over the past decade. These projects include more than $700 million in complex higher education and laboratory projects, such as the Biodesign Institute C research lab at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, and more than $1 billion in K-12 education facilities.
Kuster holds a Bachelor of Science in construction management from Arizona State University. He is a LEED Accredited Professional and a member of the U.S. Green Building Council. He is also an associate of the Design-Build Institute of America.
