Currently 33, Ionnie McNeill is a Project Executive at MCO Construction & Services, Inc., a South Florida-based construction management firm started by her mother, Ann McNeill, over 30 years ago. As a young child, Ionnie grew up working in the business throughout high school and graduated from Howard University in Accounting. After running her own business and pursuing her own interests in DC for four years, she returned home to add her specialized knowledge of Contract Compliance to the family business. After managing 3 major multi-year construction projects in Miami within four (4) years, she turned her focus to managing new business growth. Since her return to the business in 2015, the company doubled in size within two (2) years and needed a new infrastructure and “flow of command” to sustain the growth. Identifying the new business need, Ionnie turned her attention to client management and people development, thereby playing a key role in hiring every new employee from 2017-2020 and being the point of contact for new and existing clients. Currently, Ionnie is second-in-command at MCO Construction and is attending Kellogg Family Enterprise Programs to focus on transition planning to address the future 10-year needs of the company.