Austin Commercial LP

Bernard Hewett serves as executive vice president of operations for Austin Industries, and was named president of Austin Industrial in 2020. He brings significant leadership experience, previously serving as senior vice president of operations at Austin Commercial and president of Austin Bridge & Road. Since joining Austin in 1982, Bernard’s experience includes serving in estimating, project management, and project executive capacities for projects across the U.S. A significant part of Bernard’s service includes working closely with teams at each operating company to make improvements to process, platforms, and people systems (3P). In 2005, Bernard helped to commission Austin Industries’ Leadership Development Group and has served to develop current and future leaders across the enterprise.

Bill Heathcott currently serves as Vice President of AustinBridge & Road, having joined Austin in 2022. He brings more than threedecades of construction  experience inall phases of utility, roadway and  heavycivil  infrastructure, with particularexpertise in managing large projects. His background includes multiple largeinfrastructure and heavy highway projects via multiple delivery methods, andextensive experience in all phases of construction operations.

Bill Thomas currently serves as Vice President of Austin Bridge & Road for the South Texas region. He joined Austin in 2022, bringing more than three decades of construction and engineering experience in all phases of utility, roadway, heavy highway, asphalt, and construction aggregates. His background includes multiple large infrastructure and heavy highway projects, major quality and restructuring initiatives, and asphalt/ready-mix production.

Brian Salerno currently serves as Senior Vice President of Austin Bridge & Road. He joined Austin in 2014 as Vice President. He oversees Austin Bridge & Road’s preconstruction operations and brings more than three decades of experience in heavy/civil construction managing project life cycles from pursuit to planning to execution. Brian's background consists of experience in large technical structure projects, high-production concrete paving projects and complex earthmoving projects. The extent of his career has been on the contractor side of the civil infrastructure business.

Mr. Walls is president and CEO of Austin Industries, the parent company to Austin Commercial, Austin Bridge & Road and Austin Industrial. He began his career with Austin Commercial in 1980 as a project engineer. He advanced to become one of Austin Commercial’s premier field project managers before being named vice president and director of operations in 1988. He has served as president of Austin Commercial and president of Austin Bridge & Road, in addition to his current CEO position. Mr. Walls currently serves a co-chair on the commission leading implementation of the Safety Certification for Transportation Project Professionals™ (SCTPP) program. He also serves as a trustee of Baylor Scott & White Health Care System.

Elliott Goodman serves as Senior Vice President and oversees large construction programs in North Texas. He has served in many project management positions since beginning his construction career with Austin Commercial in 1994.

Janya Kieffer serves as Chief Information Officer for Austin Industries. Before joining Austin, she served as Vice President of Technology for Acme Brick, and in prior leadership roles with PrimeSource Building Products. She is a collaborative IT leader, business partner, and solution visionary who excels at driving value through strategic and transformative business projects.

Joe McLaughlin is Chief Financial Officer of Austin Industries. He began his career at Austin in 2002 and has held several financial management roles, most recently serving as Chief Accounting Officer for Austin Industries. Prior to this, he served as Austin Industries Corporate Controller and Operations Controller for both Austin Commercial and Austin Bridge & Road.

Mr. McLaughlin is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the State of Texas and became a Certified Construction Industry Financial Professional (CCIFP) in 2015. He has more than 27 years of accounting experience, with 21 of those years in the construction industry.

Mr. McLaughlin served as the 35th National Chairman of the Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA). He has been a member of the CFMA for 16 years, and served two years as Chapter President for the Dallas/Fort Worth CFMA Chapter. Mr. McLaughlin is also a Director on the Board of the CMiC Users Group, which includes IT and financial professionals from 27 of the top 100 construction companies ranked in Engineering News-Record magazine’s Top 400 Contractors.

Mr. Mills is president of Austin Bridge & Road, the oldest of Austin’s operating companies. Prior to this position, he served as senior vice president of Austin Bridge & Road. He began his career at Austin in 1999. Richard has led Austin’s asphalt division, reorganized the concrete paving division and managed numerous organizational changes.

Robert (Bob) Kasubinksi leads human resources, employee relations, craft and staff hiring, training, retention, and workforce development strategies in his role as vice president of people for Austin Industrial. Bob has helped streamline the delivery of human resources services for Austin. Prior to joining the company in 2016, Bob spent 26 years in positions of increasing responsibility for Marathon Petroleum and Marathon Oil Corporations, managing corporate human resources both domestically and internationally. He was integrally involved in HR supervision and administration at several Marathon Refining operations in Louisiana, Texas, and Ohio.

Mr. Henry is the Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer for Austin Industries. Prior to joining Austin, he served as the Chair of the Construction Practice Group for the law firm of Gardere Wynne Sewell. He was regularly Chambers-rated in Construction Law while in private practice.

Mike Landen currently serves as Vice President of Estimating for Austin Bridge & Road. Mike joined Austin in 2004, and has also held roles as Project Manager and Director of Estimating. He has 32 years of experience in project management, project scheduling, procurement, estimating and contract administration for major transportation projects.

Bob Stevens currently serves as Vice President/Project Director for Austin Bridge & Road's Major Projects Division. Having joined Austin in 2020, he has more than 30 years of industry experience to the company and has overseen some of the largest design-build projects in Texas, including the TxDOT Dallas Southern Gateway project, the TxDOT Dallas Horseshoe project, and the State Highway 161 project for the North Texas Toll Authority. Part of Bob's role includes the strengthening and broadening of the company's alternative delivery capabilities.

Eric Schranz currently serves as General Manager, Plants of Austin Bridge & Road. He joined Austin in 2001 as an accountant dedicated to the company’s hot mix asphalt plants. Currently, he oversees production and sales for Austin Bridge & Road’s seven hot mix plants, QCQA hot mix group, and material/equipment haul departments. Schranz’ has been in his current role since 2013 and will serve as the 2022 Texas Asphalt Pavement Association (TxAPA) President.

Matthew Hanna joined Austin in 2019 and currently serves as the South Texas Regional Manager for Austin Bridge & Road. He oversees Austin Bridge & Road’s South Texas Division, and brings more than 38 years of experience in heavy/civil construction to managing growth strategies, client and vendor relationships, estimating, team building, project planning, and project execution. His background consists of extensive experience in business growth strategies, high-production earthwork projects, asphalt plant production and asphalt paving projects. The extent of his career has been as an owner and operator of his own companies in various heavy civil business segments.

Todd Henson currently serves as Vice President of Operations for Austin Bridge & Road. Todd started with Austin in 2004, and he has more than 23 years management experience in the aviation, heavy highway, and rail industries. Todd has worked in multiple capacities during his time in the industry, including Vice President of Operations, area manager, project manager, estimator, project engineer and superintendent. Professional expertise includes project management, preconstruction, budgeting, scheduling and subcontractor management.

Chuck Cleveland is currently Senior Vice President of Marketing/Business Development for Austin Commercial. He started with Austin in 1979 as a Field Engineer, and has held roles as Estimator, Project Engineer, Project Administrator, Chief Estimator, Vice President of Preconstruction and Senior Vice President of Preconstruction.