Richard J. Dugas, Jr. is President and CEO of Pulte Homes, one of the largest home and active adult community builders in the United States. Pulte Homes, headquartered in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, has built more than 370,000 homes and employs more than 13,000 people.

Dugas earned his bachelor’s degree in marketing from LSU in 1986. Before joining Pulte Homes in 1994, he was employed by PepsiCo in the process improvement and plant operational efficiency divisions, and also served earlier in a variety of marketing, retail, and customer service positions with Exxon.

Dugas has held several management positions during his career with Pulte Homes. He served as both process improvement vice president and city president and market manager for Pulte Homes’ Atlanta Division, where he was responsible for driving system-wide process improvement in two national initiatives. He went on to become coastal region president with responsibility for Pulte’s Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee operations. In 2002, Dugas was appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer. He assumed his duties as president and CEO in July 2003.

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