FEATURED SPEAKER FOR November 5, 2008

Tanya Matthews, President & CEO, TMG Construction

ABOUT OUR FEATURED SPEAKER
Tanya Matthews is the President of TMG Construction Corporation of Purcellville, Virginia. TMG is a full-service general contractor whose motto is “builder of lifelong relationships”. Founded by Ms. Matthews in 1992, TMG has developed a portfolio that includes hundreds of projects at Washington Dulles International Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport last year alone. TMG has 65 employees in five offices and is one of the largest vendors of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. TMG recently completed the new Airport Rescue and Fire Fighting Facility (Station 301) at DCA and is responsible for getting IAD’s new Air Traffic Control Tower to the finish line.

Ms. Matthews also is an internationally recognized expert in Design-Build construction. She has held key management positions in several large construction and engineering companies, including Glen Construction Company, Dewberry and Davis and Parsons Brinckerhoff. Ms. Matthews served as the industry lobbyist representing architecture, engineering, and construction interests on Capitol Hill and in all 50 state legislatures for the Design-Build Institute of America, where she was elected as Chairman of the Board in 1999. Engineering News Record magazine named her as a top leader in the world in Design-Build. She has served as a visiting professor at numerous colleges and universities around the world and she holds five academic degrees. Ms. Matthews and her husband, Joe, live on a farm outside Purcellville, Virginia, where they are raising their two six-year-old sons.

FEATURED COMPANY
The Matthews Group, Inc. t/a TMG Construction Corporation (TMG) is an institutional and commercial building contractor whose core specialty is Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracting. TMG is a leading IDIQ commercial general contractor in the Washington, DC, metropolitan region that successfully completes hundreds of task orders, job orders and call orders on a yearly basis for projects located at Washington Dulles International Airport, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Fort Belvoir, and numerous government/institutional sites in Loudoun County, Virginia. TMG’s ability to effectively deliver IDIQ services is enabled by an organizational structure that utilizes specifically designed systems, procedures, training and home office support functions that allow our project personnel to manage and perform hundreds of projects concurrently. TMG’s systems, experience and excellent reputation also make it possible for us to maintain long-standing relationships with the region’s best subcontractors and create scalable design-build, fast-track, lump sum and time and material procurement solutions for building and/or civil projects.