Jack Bowen, a Chattanooga native who joined EMJ Corp., in 2005 and has been the company president for the past three years, will be promoted next month to the chief executive of Chattanooga’s biggest construction firm.
He succeeds Burt Odom, EMJ’s current CEO who will shift on Oct. 1 to a new role as chairman of the board of directors for EMJ.
The Chattanooga-based EMJ, which also maintains offices in Dallas, Charlotte, North Carolina and El Paso,Texas, was listed in the latest ranking of U.S. building firms as the 262nd biggest construction firm in the nation with revenues last year of $372.1 million. In the previous ranking of construction firm by ENR magazine in 2020, EMJ ranked No. 135, based on our 2019 revenue of $700.3 million.
EMJ sold its Signal Energy subsidiary last November and the pandemic slowed some of the company’s commercial construction last year.
In his new role, Bowen will oversee operations of EMJ and will work closely with Odom to establish and execute the company’s strategic vision.