Englewood Construction has hired four new team members including Tina McGrath as senior business development manager, Juan Rojas as assistant controller, Ron Koepl as project manager and Richard Mendonsa as project engineer.
As senior business development manager, McGrath brings more than 10 years of industry experience and an extensive background in retail and restaurant construction to Englewood, complementing the firm’s already impressive reputation in these sectors. Additionally, she will leverage her relationships in the industry to support Englewood’s growing presence in healthcare, assisted living and hospitality construction.
As assistant controller, Rojas provides accounting, budgeting, cash management, treasury, and tax handling functions for Englewood Construction. Rojas gained more than 16 years of accounting experience at several Chicago-based construction firms. He previously was a project accountant for Power Construction Co., where he worked on the $135 million Block 37 project in Chicago and a $60 million hospital expansion project in Elkhart, Indiana.
Koepl, the firm’s newly hired project manager, comes to the firm with 38 years of construction experience. In his new role he will oversee projects in new construction, food service and hospitality. Most recently, Koepl was project manager at Chicago-based Powers & Sons Construction Co. where he oversaw the 10-story, 110,000-square-foot interior build-out of the University of Chicago’s offices at Harper Court, which earned LEED Platinum accreditation.
Mendonsa, the firm’s new project engineer, is a 2015 graduate of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis with a bachelor’s degree in construction engineering management technology. He previously served as an intern for Englewood Construction.
