Audie Tarpley didn’t walk into a finished product. When he joined Dillon Construction Group in 2015, he stepped into a company already shaped by two decades of Dale Dillon’s vision — and spent five years earning his place at the top of it. By 2020, he’d taken ownership and the president’s title, bringing with him a career’s worth of experience across office, multi-family, mixed-use, and healthcare construction. Conceptual budgets, tight timelines, full project life cycles. That’s his lane.
And he runs it well.
DCG founder Dale Dillon is still in the building — literally. He’s stayed on as a team leader since handing the reins to Tarpley, which says something. Dillon launched the company in 2002 with a specific idea in mind: deliver the kind of personalized, agile service that smaller firms are supposed to do better than the giants, but actually match their results. Thirty-plus years in the industry, and he still takes a hands-on approach. His network of architects, engineers, and long-term client partners underpins much of what DCG pulls off day to day.
Here’s where it gets interesting: the leadership team Audie Tarpley has assembled (or inherited and kept) is genuinely well-rounded.
Operations manager Jennifer Schlenger joined in spring 2018, bringing over a decade of real estate and construction experience into the mix. She’s not just a supporting role — she’s embedded from initial planning through final closeout, keeping the DCG philosophy of quality, efficiency, and safety running in both directions. Strategic thinking up top, operational execution on the ground.
Project executive RJ Beckerich has been with the company for ten years. Scheduling, budgeting, contracting, quality control — he’s touched all of it, and his fingerprints are on some of DCG’s biggest wins. The Merchants Bank of Indiana Headquarters in Carmel is one. The Railyard Apartments is another — a 290,000-square-foot mixed-use development with 200-plus apartment units and a 383-car parking garage. That’s not a small project. That’s the kind of work that builds reputations.
Then there’s David Anaya. Two decades in residential and multi-family construction, senior superintendent, point of contact for all stakeholders on-site. He works closely with superintendent Coy Chaney, who started swinging hammers at 16 — building custom homes — and never really stopped. Chaney has held enough roles over the years to understand a project from essentially every angle, and since joining DCG, he’s channeled that into quality control and precision work. Unusually for someone that deep in the field, he’s also known for prioritizing the health and wellness of his crews. That balance matters more than people admit.
Rounding things out is Nick Reuter, handling business development and pre-construction. Different skills, same mission.
The question worth asking: what holds a team like this together? If DCG’s track record is any indication, it’s the founding philosophy — honest, transparent client relationships, no shortcuts on quality or safety. Tarpley has carried that forward without trying to rebrand it. Sometimes the best move is recognizing what already works.
Watch this team. They’re still building.
