The people
behind it.

Christopher M. Huckabee, AIA, is an architect, business leader, and founder of MOREgroup, a private-equity-backed architecture, design, and engineering organization. With approximately 850 employees in 22 offices across the United States, MOREgroup focuses primarily on education, healthcare, and public architecture and is consistently ranked by Engineering News-Record (ENR) among the nation’s leading design firms serving these markets.

Chris recently served as Chairman of the Board of Regents of the Texas Tech University System. He is also a past Chairman of the North Texas Community Foundation and has served on the Board of Cook Children’s Health System. He currently serves as Chairman of the Red Raider Facilities Foundation, a unique private development organization responsible for major athletics facilities at Texas Tech, including the Jones AT&T Stadium South End Zone project and the Womble Football Center.

Chris and his wife, Robin, recently made a transformational gift to Texas Tech University to name the Huckabee College of Architecture in honor of Chris’s father, Tommie J. Huckabee.

Throughout his career, Chris has championed the idea that architecture can be a vehicle for serving others. He led his firm’s commitment to significant pro bono work, including helping rebuild the community of West, Texas, following the devastating 2013 fertilizer plant explosion. More recently, he helped lead the effort to design and build a new elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, following the tragic 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School.

In 2025, after three decades of leading Huckabee and helping build MOREgroup, Chris stepped away from the CEO role to spend more time with Robin, their daughters, sons-in-law, and granddaughter while continuing his involvement in business, civic, and philanthropic pursuits.

Chris and Robin moved to Franklin, Tennessee, in early 2026. Today, they cherish time with their family while undertaking an ambitious project in Leiper’s Fork. Robin expects it will be finished in three years. Chris, with considerably more experience in construction schedules, believes five or six may be more realistic.

Brian A. Walsh is Founder, Chairman and CEO of The Collage Companies, an established leader in the construction industry; headquartered in Central Florida and working throughout the Southeast. Brian has directed the firm’s activities and rapid growth towards quality and excellence since 1982.

In 1981, Mr. Walsh became a State of Florida Certified General Contractor and holds licenses in Florida and Virginia. He is the recipient of certification for Passive Energy for Building Design. In 2003 he was selected as a charter member of the Design Build Institute of America (DBIA) Designated Professionals and in 2018 was chosen as part of the DBIA’s inaugural College of Fellows. He is also a LEED BD+C Accredited Professional. He has served as an arbitrator and as part of a panel of arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association. He is past Chairman of the DBIA Certification Board and remains active in many other civic and religious leadership roles.

Since early in his professional career Brian has focused his business life around having a bottom-line purpose as well as a bottom-line profit. His business is his ministry. He has been a board member of The Sanford Rescue Mission as well as a member of the advisory board of Christian Help Ministries. In 2011, he founded Bring Change Ministries, a mission devoted to helping the “new homeless” in our society.

Brian has been married for 42 years to his wife Dianne; they have two children. Brian often spends time on mission and humanitarian trips where his travels have led him to Guatemala, Cuba, Russia and China with various ministry organizations. Mr. Walsh has been published in several magazines and industry journals and is a requested speaker for industry and community groups and organizations.