Oris Dunham, Managing Partner, Dunham Group, LLC

After watching the movie Airplane, Oris Dunham worked for free at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport for 13 months to learn the industry. The multitude of tasks appealed to him, but concessions at the time were mundane and lacked variety. That has changed dramatically, with a focus on sense of place and tremendous design. Now, Dunham feels that airports may spend too much time creating on that sense of place at the expense of building capacity. He says international airports have overtaken those in the U.S., in many cases because governments have spent billions of dollars to build massive, fantastic buildings.