Phillip A. Washington became CEO of Denver International Airport (DEN) in July 2021. DEN is the world’s 6th busiest airport with an annual economic impact of $47.2B.  He also oversees 40,000+ badged employees with 26 air carriers and over 200 concessions.  While at DEN Phil has completed the training curriculum and wrapping up design for a one-of-its kind “Center of Equity & Excellence in Aviation” that will introduce young people to the aviation industry and create career pathways for thousands of young people.  Since the opening days of BuildIT Phil has been an advocate for the inclusion of our LGBT businesses in Design/Construction/Material Supply firms and a champion of our workforce development efforts
 
Phil is also the Co-Founder of the Equity in Infrastructure Project (EIP) which is a national non-profit organization which exists to improve public contracting practices by creating more opportunities for Historically Underutilized Businesses (HUBs) to build generational wealth and reduce the racial wealth gap by creating more prime, joint venture and equity contracting opportunities for these firms.
 
At Phil’s invitation BuildIT became the first LGBT Design/Construction industry association to sign the EIP Pledge which, at its core, is a commitment to increase the number, size and proportion of contracting opportunities for HUBs, streamlining the administration of contracting to centralized certification, improve payment time and standardize transparent data collection.  There are currently 91 ‘signers’ to this national pledge which represents some of the largest public transportation agencies, private sector AEC firms and key industry associations including the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO).

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