Dallman & Bohl General Contractors

Billy Bohl began working on a residential framing crew at age 16 and has not set foot out of the construction industry since. Raised on the east side of Cincinnati he worked through high school and college as a carpenter here in Cincinnati and as a carpentry foreman on commercial projects for a 4-1/2 year stint in West Palm Beach, Florida. He graduated from The University of Cincinnati Business College in 1987 majoring in Marketing and Real Estate.

He became partners with John Dallman in 1985. His current responsibilities include taking the lead in new client contact and estimating, management of projects and project managers, management of commercial projects and accounts, and his share of the many little things it takes to operate a construction company. He can be found daily wearing jeans and work boots as opposed to the standard office uniform of khakis and button-downs and spends most of his day on construction sites and as little behind the desk as he can get away with.

His hobbies and interests include golf, adventure travel, and fitness. He is an active volunteer as mentor in the Hamilton County's Higher Education Mentoring Initiative. He is a LEED Accredited Professional.

He and his wife Jill of 30 years have two grown children.

John Dallman has spent 37 of his 62 years involved in construction. Add in the 6 years that he spent maintaining and racing sailboats on the Great Lakes and fully 2/3rds of his life’s work has been spent working with his hands.

John was born in Wisconsin, raised in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and attended the University of Wisconsin where he spent a year as one of two student representative on the Governor’s taskforce to consolidate the University of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State University systems. After graduation from the University of Michigan with a degree in Chinese Studies, he took a job on an interstate paving crew followed by a job in Washington, DC which focused his energies in the field of foreign policy. Describing Washington as “nice to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there,” he moved to Cincinnati in 1978 and began his continuing quest to understand how things are built.

Today, John relies on the lessons learned in Washington as well as those passed on by his family’s 3 previous generations of small business owners to oversee DBGC, Inc. In addition to his primary responsibility as the managing partner, his duties include estimating and overseeing a full range of the company’s projects and project managers.

John’s wife Katie Whelan has been active in the accounting side of the business since its start. They have been married for 28 years and have two grown children.

For the past 11 years, John has volunteered with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Ride to Cure program. He serves on the National Leadership Committee, is one of six JDRF national bicycling coaches, and coaches for the SW Ohio chapter of JDRF. In his spare time, he races bikes, tends to their yard, and is busy restoring a 1880’s granary.