President, COO and Co-owner American Structurepoint Inc.

Indianapolis Business Journal (IN) - Monday, August 1, 2011

While he was still in high school in 1971, Rick Conner started to work at American Structurepoint as a part-time apprentice drafter, blueprint boy and deliveryman. The firm then had 12 employees. Today, there are more than 275 employees representing 10 disciplines. Since Conner took the reins in 1987, the company's annual sales have jumped from $28 million to an average of $53 million, and the company has expanded throughout Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. Engineering News Record has consistently listed American Structurepoint as a Top 500 Engineering Firm, and in 2010, Midwest Construction magazine named the company the No. 1 Indiana design firm.

Conner and his company have been involved in such distinctive projects as the Keystone Parkway corridor, the I-70 interchanges at Indianapolis International Airport, and the Speed Zone urban redevelopment in Speedway. Conner has hands-on experience leading these highly visible projects. Internally, he has advanced the company with the formation of an Ohio office, purchase of the Shadeland headquarters office building, and the launching of an investigative group.

Conner is a lifelong resident of the greater Indianapolis area and a 1976 graduate of Purdue University with a degree in civil engineering. He and his wife, Penny, have two adult children and three grandchildren. He is chairman of the Noblesville Housing Authority, on the Advisory Council of Purdue University School of Engineering, and on the President's Council of Purdue University . He belongs to Rotary Club of Indianapolis and St. Michael's Episcopal Church.