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BUSINESS NEWS RAKEN ADDS TO EXECUTIVE TEAM TO BOLSTER GROWTH STRATEGY: THREE NEW EXECUTIVES FROM TECHNOLOGY AND STRATEGY JOIN LEADING CONSTRUCTION SOFTWARE STARTUP Raken , the top-rated mobile field management solution for the construction industry, has named three new top executives to its growing leadership team. The addition of Mike Bates as vice president of strategy, David Nuffer as vice president of product and Matthew York as vice president of engineering brings significant new experience in software, business strategy, product management, and user experience to the construction tech startup and positions Raken for a period of sustained rapid growth. “Building a world-class executive team has been one of our top priorities in 2019, and we’re thrilled to welcome Mike, David, and Matthew to the team,” said Kyle Slager, Raken’s founder and CEO. “All are making an immediate impact in furthering our mission to deliver the most powerful solutions to the construction field.” Bates has more than 25 years of experience delivering solutions for Fortune 100 and high-growth organizations, most recently as senior vice president of strategy and partner solutions at AvidXchange and payment solutions leader at Intuit. Nuffer has worked at GoodData, Liftopia, and most recently Shipt, where he was head of product. York’s previous experience includes Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Pathway Genomics Corporation, and most recently PayLease, where he served as director of engineering. Earlier this year, Raken named former MINDBODY executive Amanda Patterson vice president of marketing and announced the appointment of Dave Berman, former president of video-collaboration platform ZOOM, to its board of directors. “We’re in the midst of major developments at Raken,” Slager said. “All this new talent and energy is feeding a culture of innovation and cultivating growth that we intend to build on.”
Following a $10 million Series A funding round in 2018, Raken has introduced several recent powerful product enhancements, including Toolbox Talks, an innovative new feature that streamlines the workflow of essential jobsite safety meetings; a Spanish-language option; and offline mode. Raken serves clients in 92 countries and has been utilized on more than 350,000 projects. The cloud-based SaaS solution boosts productivity and safety by streamlining workflow processes such as daily reporting, time tracking, and safety management. Raken provides mobile-first technology to streamline field workflows for the construction industry. Raken’s digital toolbox connects the field to the office with daily reports, time cards, toolbox talks, photo management, and more. Swinerton Renewable Energy, Sundt, John W. Danforth, Broadway Mechanical, and thousands of other top general contractor and subcontractor firms use Raken for their field reporting needs. MEAD & HUNT ACQUIRES “BOUTIQUE” TRANSPORTATION CONSULTING FIRM SABRA & ASSOCIATES, INC. Mead & Hunt , a large, well- known national architecture-engineering firm, has acquired Sabra & Associates, Inc. , a multi-disciplinary consulting firm with a strong emphasis on the transportation sector. Sabra & Associates, Inc. has a heavy presence in the mid-Atlantic states with five offices spanning the area, including offices in Columbia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Vienna, Virginia, and two in Baltimore, Maryland. They have 120 team members. This move gives both firms the opportunity to provide clients expanded consulting resources and service areas. Sabra & Associates, Inc. brings sophisticated multi- modal transportation planning, travel demand modeling, GIS, traffic engineering, and highway design and construction inspection to Mead & Hunt’s transportation team, which excels at roadway and bridge design and construction inspection. In addition, Sabra & Associates, Inc. brings
strength in urban transit, freight logistics, signals and intelligent transportation systems planning and design, which is vital to many of Mead & Hunt’s clients across the country. The two firms offer complementary services, making this combination beneficial for Sabra & Associates, Inc. and Mead & Hunt clients alike. “The convergence of Sabra & Associates, Inc. and Mead & Hunt’s areas of expertise supports clients and communities by creating greater access to vital transportation services nationwide,” said Rick Plymale, vice president for Mead & Hunt’s transportation sector. “I’m confident that together we can do more for our clients than either of us could alone.” The two firms are an ideal cultural fit, with both fostering people-first values. According to Andy Platz, Mead & Hunt’s CEO, “Keeping all of our clients, employees, and communities at the forefront of our decisions is key to our overall success.” Similarly, Ziad Sabra, former owner of Sabra & Associates, Inc. and now Mid-Atlantic business unit leader at Mead & Hunt stated, “We remain committed to retaining the close client relationships we’ve fostered over the past several years, and we look forward to maintaining these relationships well into the future. Above all, this allows us to offer expanded resources to our clients and offers our employees additional opportunities to grow.” Mead & Hunt is an employee-owned consulting firm and remains strong on ENR’s Top 500 design firm list with a national ranking of 119 in 2019. The firm employs nearly 900 employees from more than 35 offices located across the nation. Mead & Hunt was named by Zweig Group as one of the Best Firms To Work For, and by CE News as one of the top 10 engineering companies to work for in the nation.
career. Seek feedback from a trusted advisor. Move closer to your best performance. KYLE CHEERANGIE is a project manager at HNTB Corporation, and is the founder and director of content for the blog Engineered Journals. He can be reached at kyle@engineeredjournals.com. “The dismissal of achievement, as a stroke of luck, was something I did early in my career. I couldn’t see my life moving from one rung of the ladder to the next without some magical hand lifting me up.”
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successes. My change in attitude only came to me because of a healthy conversation I had with one of my managers. This conversation lead me to ask these three questions: 1) What are the current limitations that could make my career vulnerable? 2) Where am I not performing in my daily duties? 3) What do I see as a weakness and how can I use it as an opportunity?
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