Andrew J. Ball
President of the Advisory Board Council

Mr. Ball serves as President / CEO of Webcor, Inc. He has led Webcor to become one of the largest general contractors in the nation with over $2.1 billion of construction contracts in place as of 2006. As a leader in the construction industry, Mr. Ball has been featured in several prestigious publications including: Newsweek Magazine, PC Computing, The New York Times, Business Week and the San Francisco Business Times. He has also been quoted in Engineering News Record, The Harvard Business Review and The Wall Street Journal. As a San Francisco Bay Area leader, Mr. Ball has been featured in KPIX’s “Making it in America” series, a television program that salutes the people and companies who develop world-class technology and quality goods and services in the Bay Area..

Mr. Ball has transformed Webcor into a technology leader in the construction industry. He has created strategic alliances with technology companies allowing Webcor to utilize advanced technology to create an environment of efficiency that is unparalled by any other contractor. By speaking to a variety of educational groups, including the Center for Integrated Facilities Engineers at Stanford, the Stanford University Department of Civil Engineering, the UC Berkeley research group Center for Built Environment, Forbes-sponsored conferences and the BPI Construction Super Conference, Mr. Ball continually promotes the advancements of construction technology.

Throughout his 30 years of construction experience, Mr. Ball has played key roles in the construction of many high tech campuses, including the LucasArts’ Letterman Digital Arts Center which consists of four office buildings with 16” high raised access flooring throughout for a total of 1.6 million square feet; the Oracle World Headquarters which includes six office buildings, a fitness center, a conference center, four parking structures and substation for a total of 3 million square feet; and the Electronic Arts Campus with 4 buildings, an auditorium and two parking structures for a total of 1 million square feet. On the Electronic Arts project, Mr. Ball was a member of the development team as well as the leader of the construction efforts. Mr. Ball has also worked on multiple projects for many other high tech companies, including Siebel Systems, Symantec Corp., Sun Microsystems, Sony, Hitachi Ltd. and Palm Inc.

Currently, Mr. Ball is on the Executive Board of the San Francisco Center for Economic Development and the Executive Board of the Bay Area Council, serving as the chair of its Educational Workforce committee. He is also a professional member of the Building Industry Conference Board, a nonprofit construction industry organization which educates its members on new technologies for the industry. In 1999, the BICB designated Andy Ball and Webcor Builders as their Contractor of the Year. Mr. Ball is also a member of CORENET Global, an International Association of Corporate Real Estate Professionals, and was honored as the CORENET Global Service Provider of the Year for 2002.

Mr. Ball firmly believes that the definition of success includes community involvement and support. He is personally and professionally active in many charitable organizations and received the Katrina Wollenberg Outstanding Volunteer Award in 2001 for his and the company’s efforts on behalf of Rebuilding Together, a nationwide program that renovates the homes, schools and camps of local, disadvantaged recipients. In addition, because of his contributions to local scouting and to the community at large, Mr. Ball received the Silver Beaver Award from the San Francisco Bay Area Council Boy Scouts of America in 2001, the highest honor that can be bestowed upon an individual by a Scout Council.