Peter Beck

Peter Beck joined The Beck Group in 1981 after graduating from Princeton University with a civil engineering degree followed by an MBA from Stanford. While at Princeton, he pursued a combined program in architecture and engineering from which he began to learn about the challenges and opportunities of integrating design and construction. After serving as a Project Manager, Peter assumed responsibility for the firm as CEO in the early 1990’s. He brought together a management team committed to achieving order-of-magnitude improvements in project costs, schedule, and design quality through integrating design and construction. In 1999, Beck merged with a 40 person architecture firm and began to build a design practice in each office including Dallas, Austin, Denver, Atlanta, Tampa, and Mexico City. Peter currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Southwestern Medical Foundation, The Salvation Army’s DFW Metroplex Command Advisory Board, the Charles Pankow Foundation Advisory Council, and the Design Futures Council. He also previously contributed to the following organizations: The Dallas Foundation (Chairman), the Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce (Chairman), the Civil and Environmental Engineering Advisory Council at Princeton University (Chairman) and the Dallas Citizens Council. In addition, Peter previously served on the Texas Parks & Wildlife Commission and the Stanford Business School Trust. Peter lives in Dallas, Texas. His daughter, Spindrift, recently graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, and his son, John, is currently attending the business school.