Featured Speaker

John Stevenson

  • John is Executive Vice President of The Projects Group, a Fort Worth-based owner's representative and owner's project manager. He also is Secretary of its Board of Directors. He has over a decade of experience as an Owner’s Representative, Project Manager, and Professional Engineer for numerous cultural centers, urban districts, museums, and performing arts centers. He has special experience with soliciting, qualifying, selecting, and leading projects for numerous museums, performing-arts facilities, universities, airports, urban districts, manufacturing facilities, healthcare districts, office and residential buildings, cultural centers, Tribal facilities, FAA- and TxDOT-specification private runways, nonprofit organizations, research campuses, station power plants, and private residences. In addition to leading development programs, he also has significant experience specifying and troubleshooting the specialty equipment essential to successful operation of cultural institutions, such as lighting, AV, production equipment, rigging, automated stages, and MEP/FP systems. He is a frequent speaker on matters of real-estate development, sustainability, and infrastructure master planning. John is Treasurer of both Tarrant County Samaritan Housing and Streams & Valleys, as well as a director or committee chair for U.S. Green Building Council North Texas Regional Council, Tarrant Transit Alliance, ACE Mentor Program of DFW, Southwest ESOP Association, and the Engineering Advisory Board of Birdville ISD. He is a member of the Fort Worth Business Press 40 Under 40 for 2022.