Doug Davidson

Atlanta native Doug Davidson is chairman and CEO of New South Construction, which he founded in 1990, and which has grown into one of Georgia’s most respected construction firms. Davidson was Associated General Contractors president in 2008 and Construction Education Foundation president in 2001. New South’s current projects include Spectrum, a five-story apartment building in Atlanta; a new 337,861-square-foot Hall County campus of Lanier Technical College in Gainesville; and the modernization of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport’s domestic terminal. Education: Auburn University