Julia Forgas Email Address

Executive Vice President

CDM Smith provides lasting and integrated solutions in water, environment, transportation, energy and facilities to public and private clients worldwide.

As a proud third generation University of Florida Gator, I envisioned myself in a wide range of potential careers including civil engineer, advertising executive, and writer for Time magazine. Who knew there was a world where I could experience the best of all three as a marketer and communicator for an AEC firm! From a proposal writer to CMO and the first female member of CDM Smith’s executive leadership team (ELT), it has been an amazing journey and one that I am honored to be on. I believe in doing more than is expected, continuous improvement, servant leadership, honesty, humbleness, compassion, accountability, always being myself and never thinking I am the smartest person in the room. What am I doing when, as CMO, I am not leading my team of extraordinary marketing, communications and creative professionals? Or when, as a member of the ELT, I am not helping steer the CDM Smith ship by creating communications partnerships, strengthening connections and protecting our culture? Well, I’m likely honing my entertaining, decorating, cooking, crafting, and personal development skills in case there is ever an opening for the next Martha Stewart or Joanna Gaines.