Mark L. Payton
Senior Vice President and Head of Strategy
Mark Payton is Senior Vice President and Head of Strategy at Centuri. He joined the company in 2025.
In this role, Mark leads the enterprise-wide strategy development, with a focus on planning for sustained, profitable growth across the Company’s North American footprint. This includes capitalizing on opportunities in core utility and energy end markets as well as adjacent markets to both strengthen and diversify the business and bring long-term sustainability.
Mark has more than 35 years of experience leading strategy development process and implementation, with an emphasis on strategic planning facilitation, market and business intelligence gathering and analysis, performance improvement, project management, and organizational development. He has worked with global engineering and construction firms including KBR, Kentz, Wood and SNC Lavalin (now AtkinsRéalis).
He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from University of Arizona and a master’s in management from Thunderbird School of Global Management.