Paul King Appointed Director of Business Development for McCarthy San Diego Division

Feb. 6, 2012 - PRLog -- McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. (www.mccarthy.com), one of the nation's leading general contractors, has appointed Paul King as director of business development for its San Diego operations, announced Robert Betz, executive vice president – southern California division.

King brings to McCarthy eight years of experience in the construction-marketing arena.  In his new role with McCarthy, he is responsible for identifying and pursuing new business opportunities within all San Diego vertical market sectors, specifically healthcare, science and technology, education, commercial and parking structures.  He will participate in industry organizations and events, as well as oversee the division’s marketing, public relations, and community outreach efforts.

Most recently, King served three-and-a-half years as director of business development and marketing for Suffolk-Roel in Irvine and San Diego, where he was responsible for business development within the education market and oversaw all the company’s business development managers and its director of marketing.  While there he helped the company break into southern California’s education market, generating more than $300 million in sales.

Prior to that, King was business development manager for HBI Construction in Newport Beach.  He also served three years as business development manager for Messer Construction in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was instrumental in landing the $200 million Greenfield Hospital project in West Chester and the $70 million Care Source office tower project in downtown Dayton.

King holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Cincinnati, where he majored in marketing and minored in international business.  

For four years he was a board member of the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) Orange County and, for two years, he served as a committee member for Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) Western Region.  His charitable involvement includes having been a two-year board member for Canstruction Orange County, a charity committed to ending world hunger, as well as a two-year team captain for the March of Dimes Orange County.

Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, King now lives in the UTC area of San Diego.  His personal interests include football, skiing and traveling.

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McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. is the nation’s 10th largest domestic general contractor (Engineering News-Record, May 2011) and one of the nation’s oldest, privately held construction firms. As the largest general building contractor in California and one of the top green construction firms (ENR California, August 2011), McCarthy is committed to the construction of high-performance buildings. In addition to San Diego, McCarthy has offices in Newport Beach, Sacramento and San Francisco, Calif.; Phoenix; Las Vegas; Dallas; Houston; St. Louis; and Atlanta. McCarthy is 100 percent employee-owned. More information about the company is available online at www.mccarthy.com.