Charles F. Potts
A native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Potts has a distinguished transportation design and construction industry career spanning more than 45 years in the public and private sectors. He was elected chairman of the board of five construction or asphalt-related groups, and led a one-night, $500,000 fundraising event that established a legacy program known as the Dr. Don Brock TransOvation™ Workshop.
Potts, the chairman of the board of Indianapolis-based Heritage Construction & Materials, is a recognized expert in the field of hot mixed asphalt materials and construction, and the author or co-author of over 100 technical papers on the subjects. Potts also worked for the Florida Department of Transportation for 16 years, serving in numerous positions including as head of the state’s materials and research program and its director of construction.
As ARTBA chairman and in his role as Heritage CEO, he spent many years advocating the need for a new transportation vision—dubbed “Critical Commerce Corridors”—to improve the safe and efficient movement of goods.
He is a former chairman of the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA), and National Center for Asphalt Technology at Auburn University, past president of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologist and past chairman of the board for the International Center for Aggregates Research at the University of Texas.
