Hal is the Chief Operations Officer of the Clark Construction Group in Bethesda, Maryland. Clark is one of the largest construction contractors in the United States. Hal is the son of a career Army officer who was wounded in Germany in World War II. His father spent a year recovering and rehabilitating at Walter Reed and would have loved to have had a program like Team River Runner at that time. Hal earned a Civil Engineering Degree from Layafette College and a Masters in Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Upon graduation in 1976 Hal began work for Clark Construction (then The George Hyman Construction Company). Prior to TRR Hal served on the Board of Directors of Strathmore Hall for nine years. Hal and his wife, Marylouise reside in Derwood, Maryland and have three boys, Brian, Kevin, and Andrew. The family spends summer weekends boating on Deep Creek Lake in Garrett County, Maryland. Hal has been involved with Team River Runner since 2009.

Doug Makosy is President of Kirlin Design Build, LLC. Doug has over twenty-five years of design-build experience in both the public and private sectors, including more than twenty years in the Mid-Atlantic region. He has procured and managed many of the largest federal design-build projects in the Mid-Atlantic region in the past fifteen years. Doug is responsible for managing the in-house engineering staff as well as all construction operations for Kirlin Design Build Group. Doug earned his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Miami and a Masters of Business from the University of Maryland.