Henry C. Beck III

Henry C. Beck III ("Peter") (born 1955) is an American businessman, who was CEO - an architecture, engineering, and construction firm based out of Dallas, with offices in Houston, Austin, Atlanta, Denver, Tampa, Florida, Mexico City and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico - for 20 years, and is executive chairman.

Early life, family, and education Beck is the third child of Henry C. Beck Jr., noted Dallas philanthropist and former CEO of The Beck Group (then named HCB Construction), and Patricia Beck (née Davis), daughter of former Republic National Bank (formerly First Republic Bank Corporation) chairman, Wirt Davis. Beck was born and raised in Dallas, TX and lived in what became known as "The Beck House", designed by famed architect Philip Johnson - the only home Johnson ever designed in Dallas. Writes Frank Welch in the book Phillip Johnson and Texas, "Young Peter Beck, [due to Johnson's penchant for designing arches] called his mother and father 'Mr. and Mrs. Arch'. A few years before Beck Jr.'s death, Beck III and his sister Spindrift Al Swaidi envisioned and commissioned Downtown Dallas' Henry C. Beck Jr. Park in honor of their father. Beck attended high school at Phillips Andover, graduating in 1973. He did his undergrad studies at Princeton University, In 2002, under Beck's leadership, The Beck Group was named one of Fortune Magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work For. With regard to his business philosophy, Beck has said that, "Our company has benefited from leaving the last dollar on the table for the other guy. This allows you to develop a good reputation working with customers. What you want to do is delight the customer. And if that costs money sometimes, then it costs money. As an underlying philosophy, that's critical to our culture." Beck later refined the product over the course of the next 10 years and named it DProfiler. Said Beck, "There was no such tool on the market {at the time} for the AEC (architecture, engineering, construction) industry." No such program had been invented before, and it changed the world of architecture, engineering, and construction forever. DProfiler allows The Beck Group (and any AEC company who purchases the product) to offer its clients integrated product delivery using 3D modeling and quality calculations with cost estimating linked to the firms' own database. Beck knew that this integration was essential and, thus, made the decision in 1999 to merge with Urban Architecture of Dallas.

Notable projects as CEO, Executive Chairman During Beck's tenure as CEO and Executive Chairman of The Beck Group, the company designed and built multiple projects, including:

Architecture Joyful Church - Pohang, South Korea and winner of: 'Best of the Best' 2008 National Award for Architectural Design, The Arc of Dallas' 2008 Topping Out Award

He also previously won the 1999 Chairman's Award from the Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce, where he went on to sit as chairman. He was chairman of The Dallas Foundation and was on the Stanford Business School Trust as well. of Commit!, an organization helping to drive student achievement throughout Dallas County. As of 2014, he was listed in DFW Most Powerful's 1000 Definitive Movers and Shaker's list.