Lenexa, Kansas-based Henderson Companies has appointed Darrell Stein as chief operations officer for Henderson Engineers and Henderson Building Solutions.
A Henderson veteran since 1999, Stein will spearhead strategic and day-to-day operations for the firm in collaboration with the executive team and other leadership.
Stein’s most recent role was business sector operations director, overseeing operations for the Henderson market sector that services core and shell, mission critical, mixed use, warehouse, and workplace projects nationwide.
In addition to projects in a variety of markets including higher education, K-12 and sports, his extensive resume includes serving as director of Henderson’s fire and life safety team for nearly two decades and growing it into one of the largest in-house fire protection engineering teams in the United States.
Stein succeeds Dave Haake, Henderson’s longtime COO who will remain with the company as an operations executive to guide the transition before retiring. An architectural engineer by training, Haake joined the firm in 1993 as a project manager and held a variety of progressively responsible roles before becoming COO and joining the Henderson Board of Directors in 2013. His executive tenure has been the most successful period in Henderson history with the company more than doubling to 1,000 employees.
