Brian M. Butler

PRESIDENT & CEO, JCB CONSTRUCTION, ORLANDO

Butler has run the family-owned company since 2005. The second-generation business specializes in site development and construction management. Butler considers its work on Orlando International Airport’s Terminal C expansion as vital to the company’s success, opening the door to work on Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort, the Four Seasons Resort Orlando, Orlando World Center Marriott and Camping World Stadium and Exploria Stadium, home to Orlando’s Major League Soccer club. Butler, who earned a business economics degree from Brown University and an MBA from Duke, chairs the University of Central Florida Foundation board and is on the board of directors for the Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation, which helps nonprofits “be better managed, governed and led.” Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Butler to the Florida Museum of Black History Task Force, charged with finding a location for a new museum, designing and building it. He is a past chair of Associated Builders & Contractors, National Association of Minority Contractors, and Orlando Economic Partnership.