Suffolk Expands Las Vegas Leadership, Hires Jeff Wood and Promotes Chris Anderson

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 7, 2026--

Suffolk, one of the most innovative and successful builders in the country, has hired Jeff Wood as Executive Vice President of Las Vegas and promoted Chris Anderson to Chief Operating Officer of National Gaming and Las Vegas. Wood will lead Suffolk’s Las Vegas business, while Anderson will oversee the company’s national gaming portfolio and Las Vegas operations. Together, they will deepen relationships with clients and trade partners and apply Suffolk’s technology- and data-driven approach to support precise planning, dependable execution, and schedule certainty. They will report to Pete Tuffo, President of Gulf Coast Region, Las Vegas and National Gaming at Suffolk.

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Mr. Wood will set the strategic direction for Suffolk’s Las Vegas business, overseeing its portfolio, strengthening senior client relationships, and aligning people and technical resources with client and market priorities. In partnership with Suffolk’s national gaming leadership, he will build the capabilities and relationships to support continued growth in Southern Nevada.

He joins Suffolk from McCarthy with over 25 years of experience and an extensive record delivering high-profile gaming, hospitality, and sports and entertainment projects throughout Las Vegas. His experience includes Allegiant Stadium, the renovation and expansion of Palms Casino Resort, the Circa Resort & Casino and Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas. Throughout his career, he has led complex projects that demanded rigorous coordination, aggressive schedules and seamless integration within active hospitality and entertainment environments.

“Jeff’s experience delivering complex projects throughout Las Vegas, combined with Chris’ deep market and industry knowledge, gives us a strong leadership team for this next phase of growth,” said Mr. Tuffo, President of Suffolk’s Gulf Coast Region, Las Vegas and National Gaming. “They understand the expectations of our clients operating in highly visible, schedule-driven environments and their leadership will help our teams deliver with the discipline, collaboration and innovation that define Suffolk.”

“Las Vegas projects demand strong teams, detailed planning and a clear understanding of how every construction decision affects the client and guest experience,” said Mr. Wood. “Suffolk’s collaborative culture and technology-driven approach create a powerful platform for delivering complex work, and I look forward to helping our teams build on the momentum already established in the market.”

Mr. Anderson brings more than 40 years of construction management experience spanning nearly every phase of project delivery. Since joining Suffolk in 2025 as General Manager of its Las Vegas office, he has worked closely with clients and project teams to advance the company’s work in the region. As Chief Operating Officer of National Gaming and Las Vegas, he will oversee Suffolk's national gaming projects while continuing to align teams and resources, strengthen client partnerships, and drive consistent execution across Suffolk's Las Vegas projects.

Since opening its Las Vegas office in 2023, Suffolk has expanded its local team and operations to serve a growing portfolio across Southern Nevada. These investments strengthen the company’s ability to support clients and projects throughout the region.

Suffolk’s work in the region includes Four Seasons Private Residences Las Vegas; the Durango Casino & North Expansion, which recently reached the midway point; the Flamingo Las Vegas lobby renovation; and Campus for Hope, a 20-plus-acre campus providing comprehensive services addressing homelessness. Nationally, Suffolk’s gaming portfolio includes the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and Hotel in Hollywood, Florida; Seminole Brighton Bay Hotel & Casino in Okeechobee, Florida; Encore Boston Harbor; and Chicken Ranch Casino Resort in Jamestown, California.

About Suffolk
Suffolk is a national enterprise that builds, innovates and invests. Suffolk is an end-to-end business that delivers value across the entire project lifecycle by leveraging its core construction management services with vertical service lines that include design, self-perform construction services, technology start-up investment (Suffolk Technologies), supply chain management, and innovation research and development focused on advancing AI and data-driven solutions that will redefine the way America builds.

Suffolk – America’s Contractor – is a national company with more than $10 billion in annual revenue, 3,500 employees, and offices in Boston (headquarters); New York City and Westchester County, New York; Estero, Miami, Tampa and West Palm Beach, Florida; Dallas; Los Angeles, Milpitas, San Francisco and San Diego, California; Las Vegas; Portland, Maine; New Haven, Connecticut; Herndon, Virginia; and Salt Lake City.

Suffolk manages some of the most complex, sophisticated projects in the country, serving clients in every major industry sector, including healthcare, life sciences, education, gaming, transportation/aviation, government and public work, mission critical, advanced technology and commercial. Suffolk is privately held and is led by Founder, Chairman and CEO John Fish. Suffolk is ranked #7 on its list of “Top CM-at-Risk Contractors.” For more information, visit www.suffolk.com and follow Suffolk on Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.

Chris Anderson has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer of National Gaming and Las Vegas at Suffolk. A 40-year industry veteran, he joined the company in 2025 as General Manager of its Las Vegas office and will now oversee Suffolk's gaming projects nationwide alongside its Las Vegas operations.

Jeff Wood joins Suffolk as Executive Vice President of Las Vegas. His 25-plus years of experience include landmark projects such as Allegiant Stadium, the Palms Casino Resort renovation and expansion, Circa Resort & Casino and Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas court on Wednesday refused to halt the execution of a man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk after his attorneys cited the failed lethal injection of Christa Pike in Tennessee.

The execution was scheduled to take place later Wednesday in Texas and would be the first in the U.S. since Pike survived the execution attempt last week.

Because Texas planned to inject the same drug used in Pike's attempted execution — pentobarbital — attorneys for 46-year-old Jamaal Howard argued to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that the drug poses similar risks. They also raised concerns about the quality of the state's execution drugs.

The court denied the stay request without elaboration.

Pike's lawyers are seeking more information about what went wrong after the 50-year-old woman survived two doses of pentobarbital on Sept. 30. She was unconscious for several days at a hospital but was awake and speaking by Tuesday.

“Texas should not be eager to follow in Tennessee’s footsteps; a stay would keep that from happening,” Howard's attorneys argued in their filing.

Texas has executed six people so far this year, with two more lethal injections scheduled after Howard. He would become the 30th person executed nationwide in 2026.

On Wednesday, Howard was described as “chatty” during the 45-mile (70-kilometer) drive from the death row prison to the Huntsville Unit where executions are carried out, said Amanda Hernandez, a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

“He made small talk with the officers through the whole trip,” she said.

Once inside the Huntsville prison, he was taken to a small holding cell near the death chamber and remained talkative.

“He was asking questions and was very engaged in the process,” Hernandez said.

Howard was convicted of capital murder in the 2000 killing of Vickie Swartout, 42, who was shot once in the chest during a store robbery. Evidence presented at the trial included the store’s surveillance video that showed Howard shooting Swartout.

Howard, who was 20 at the time, took $114 and a carton of cigarettes from the store in the small, rural town of Silsbee, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northeast of Houston, according to court records.

His attorneys have argued that Howard is intellectually disabled and his execution should be halted. The state said that he has not presented evidence showing he meets the requirements for a claim of intellectual disability.

He has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the execution.

In n2002, the Supreme Court had barred the execution of intellectually disabled people. But it has given states some discretion in determining intellectual disability.

The motion filed early Wednesday in the Court of Criminal Appeals in Texas said Howard's attorneys had filed requests for information about the lethal dose of pentobarbital that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice planned to use.

The attorneys said the department asked for a state attorney general opinion about whether it must disclose that information.

The Texas attorney general opinion is not expected to be returned until after Wednesday, meaning Howard can't litigate whatever decision the state might make on releasing that information, they argued.

Texas officials did not immediately return a request for comment Wednesday morning.

Florida has carried out 16 executions so far this year, the most of any state. Most states that allow executions use lethal injection as their primary method.

Tennessee's Republican Gov. Bill Lee has halted the one remaining execution for the rest of the year.

Stengle reported from Fort Worth, Texas.

This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Jamaal Howard on Oct. 28, 2022. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)

This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Jamaal Howard on Oct. 28, 2022. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)