Courtesy of Turner

Dewey Newton
Senior Vice President of Sports and Public Assembly

Tom Paci
Vice President and Director of Preconstruction Services

Turner Construction Co.

Newton joined Turner’s Chicago office as a field engineer in 1985, assumed leadership of the firm’s sports practice in 2012, and is responsible for $1.2 billion in related construction annually. He has overseen recent construction of the Golden 1 Center and Levi’s Stadium, and renovations of Clemson’s Littlejohn Coliseum and TCU’s Amon G. Carter Stadium. Among his more than 15 major active projects are the new MLS stadiums for the Columbus Crew and FC Cincinnati. Paci began his career with Turner in 1971 as an engineer and helped create the firm’s sports group in 1997. That team has completed $9.4 billion in sports and public assembly projects in the past decade, including SoFi Stadium, Audi Field and the State Farm Arena renovation. — D.B.