Nathan Beil joined KCI in 1988, and within four years, he started the company’s Water Resources Division, which quickly grew to a team of 21 and became one of KCI’s top-performing business units.
In 1994, he was promoted to vice president and the following year to senior vice president. Beil led the firm’s environmental group from 1995 to 2001, adding four new service lines—public utilities and subsurface utility engineering (now the Energy Business Sector), communications infrastructure (now the Construction Services Business Sector) and geographic information systems (now Technology & Innovation Business Sector). He was then promoted to executive vice president, responsible for managing the four operating groups that made up the Mid-Atlantic region. Beil was promoted to president in 2006, growing KCI’s team from 900 to more than 1,500 and significantly expanding the firm’s geographic footprint. During his tenure as president, and much to his credit, KCI was named Engineering News Record’s Mid-Atlantic Design Firm of the Year and the Baltimore Sun’s top workplace among large firms in 2017.
Beil assumed the role of CEO in 2018 and Chairman of the Board in 2021, growing KCI to over $650 Million in annual revenue, 2500 employee owners, and the top 50Th ranking of AEC Companies in the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC). He is a two-time graduate of Lehigh University, earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 1983 and 1987, respectively. He completed the Executive Program at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration in 2000 and the American Council of Engineering Companies Senior Executive Institute in 2006. He is a registered professional engineer in Delaware and Maryland and a Diplomate of Water Resources Engineering.
Now retired from KCI, Beil serves as a Senior Advisor to the KCI Board of Directors. Beil also serves on the MSA Professional Services Board of Directors and the Schnabel Engineering Board of Directors.
Throughout his career, Beil has been dedicated to improving the profession, the region and his community, and served on the executive committee of The Design Professionals Coalition (DPC) and is the past chair of the Maryland Chamber of Commerce, the Maryland Transportation Builders & Materials Association (MTBMA), and the Design Professional Risk Control Group. He also serves on Lehigh University’s Masters of Structural Engineering Advisory Board as well as the boards of directors for Scouting America (National Outstanding Eagle Scout Award recipient), and the Woodmont Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America. Beil is an active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Water Resources Association (AWRA) and the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC).