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Balitmore, MD
John Whitty
Project Director
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John Whitty joins Canopy Team after a career in construction project management and operations in the professional sports, college athletics, and commercial real estate industries. John served as Senior Stadium Project Manager for Krause Group where he led project feasibility and conceptual design stages for USL Soccer’s Pro Iowa. Prior to that he was a development and construction project manager for Equinox, overseeing club buildouts in Los Angeles, the Bay Area, and Chicago. John started his career at the University of Notre Dame where he was the first Director of Operations for Notre Dame Softball, managing the team’s logistics and partnerships with the NCAA, the Atlantic Coast Conference, ESPN, and the ACC Network. John also oversaw Notre Dame’s premier athletics annual-giving scholarship program and assisted in capital project planning and fundraising.
As Project Director at Canopy Team, John enjoys digging into due diligence and feasibility efforts on behalf of clients who are just beginning or reassessing their facility needs. He leads project teams through design and construction with a focus on collaboration, process implementation, and executing to achieve results. In addition to his work with clients, he serves on Canopy’s Sustainability Committee and enjoys bringing his dog, Greta, to the office.
A native of Des Moines, IA, John received an M.B.A. from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and a B.A. in Political Science from Notre Dame in 2010, where he was a Student Manager for thei football and softball teams. You can usually find him with a good book, reserving tables at any local trivia night, or learning to row on Baltimore’s amazing waterfront.