Doug McKeown

Doug McKeown has served as Board Chair at Woodard & Curran since 2009 and was also CEO of the firm from 2007 to 2021. He played active roles in operations, marketing, business development and governance to help Woodard & Curran grow from a firm of 80 people, when he joined the firm in 1992, to over 1200 today with revenues in excess of $260 million.

Doug McKeown has served as Board Chair at Woodard & Curran since 2009 and was also CEO of the firm from 2007 to 2021. He played active roles in operations, marketing, business development and governance to help Woodard & Curran grow from a firm of 80 people, when he joined the firm in 1992, to over 1200 today with revenues in excess of $260 million. Under his leadership as CEO the firm tripled in size, built a national footprint, and expanded employee ownership while improving financial performance. Doug has been influential in raising awareness in the industry around diversity, equity and inclusion.

He serves on the Board of engineering firms Walter P Moore in Houston and Cotter Consulting in Chicago. He is also Vice-Chair of the Board for Mercy Northern Light Hospital in Portland, Maine. Doug is a member of the faculty for the ACEC Senior Executive Institute (SEI), the industry’s leading program for developing forward-thinking industry leaders. He is also the Vice-Chair of nABLE, the National Advisory Board for Leadership in Engineering, an Advisory Board to the ACEC Research Institute. Doug has a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton and an MBA from Boston College.