Founder, chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer

MckIssack & Mckissack

Deryl McKissack is the founder, chairwoman and chief executive officer of McKissack & McKissack (McKissack), a national architecture, engineering, program and construction-management firm currently managing over $15 billion in projects nationwide. Under Deryl’s leadership, McKissack has worked for public and private clients in the civic, culture, energy, education, entertainment, healthcare, hospitality, housing, infrastructure, housing, mixed-use and office sectors and grown to over 150 employees with offices in Austin, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami and Washington, DC.

 In 1990, with a shoestring budget of $1,000 and a business plan she wrote herself, Deryl started McKissack. Today, Engineering News-Record magazine ranks the firm in two of its most significant national lists: 100 Top Construction Management For-Fee Firms and 50 Top Program Management Firms. The Washington Business Journal has also named McKissack one of the top 25 design firms in the metropolitan Washington area.