Hitt Contracting promotes senior leadership

Falls Church-based general contractor Hitt Contracting announced Thursday four promotions and one retirement in its national business.

Jeremy Bardin, Hitt’s co-president since 2017, will retire in December. Replacing Bardin as co-president, Evan Antonides has been promoted to oversee Hitt’s Southeast and Texas operations and its mission-critical work nationwide, and will serve alongside Drew Mucci, the company’s other co-president.

Executive Vice President Brian Kriz is beginning a new role overseeing Hitt’s dedicate site operations team nationwide. Aaron Martens and Triloka Shanbhag have been appointed vice presidents and co-business unit leaders for Hitt’s mission critical sector.

Bardin joined Hitt in 2002. In 2007, he was promoted to executive vice president overseeing strategic growth and development of Hitt’s base building, hospitality and mission critical sectors. Hitt’s mission critical sector builds data centers, network operations centers and mission critical facilities for tech firms. In 2017, he became co-president of the company.

Antonides joined the firm in 2006 after his graduation from Virginia Tech. He most recently served as executive vice president for growth and development of Hitt’s Texas offices and the company’s mission critical and data center construction operations.

Kriz joined Hitt as a laborer in 1993 and rose to executive vice president overseeing the corporate interiors sector. In his new role, Kriz will lead more than 500 site operations team members on jobsites throughout the country.

Martens joined Hitt in 2013 and built a portfolio of data center work in Northern Virginia and Texas. Shanbhag joined Hitt in 2017, specializing in project management of confidential data center projects.

Founded in 1930, commercial construction firm Hitt Contracting has more than 1,600 employees in 14 U.S. office locations. The company reported $5.6 billion in 2023 revenue, and is led by CEO Kim Roy.