Camosy Announces Leadership Changes

By Deneen Smith
Kenosha News

A family-owned construction business is changing leadership.

RaymondCamosy,chairman of Camosy Inc., announced he would step down as president of the company while remaining as chairman. His brother John Camosy, previously senior vice president and chief operating officer, will succeed him as president.

John Camosy, of Kenosha, a graduate of Arizona State University, is an AIC-certifi ed professional constructor. He has been with the family company for 23 years and is a former two-term president and current director of the Tri-County Contractors Association.

Raymond Camosy, a Paris resident, said the management change was in keeping with Camosy tradition of creating an orderly transition in the family-owned organization.

"Every family business needs to install a successor for the president," Raymond said. "It was my 57th birthday April 3, and it was time."

Raymond, a University of Notre Dame graduate who has worked with the company for 34 years, said he will stay on with the company full time as chairman.

The company was founded by Dominick Camosy in 1910. Raymond and John's father Remo became president in 1953, with Raymond elected president in 1986.

Camosy's headquarters straddles the state line between Pleasant Prairie and Lake County. The company focuses on commercial, institutional and industrial construction projects and has nine times been named one of the "Top 400" contractors in the nation by Engineering News-Record magazine.

John Camosy will be just the fourth president in the fi rm's 97-year history.

Along with that change, several other company veterans were promoted:

• Chief estimator Todd Peyron was named vice president of estimating.
• Todd Knop, manager of Comosy's special projects division, was promoted to vice president of special projects.
• Timothy Drewry and Robert Nikolai, both project managers and estimators, were both promoted to vice president.