“New Technology Merged With Legacy Experience”
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Collaborative / Dependable / Excellence /
Since the acquisition, Santiago’s executive leadership and management skills have grown the team from 30 to 70 employees, and have established mentor-protegee relationships that also have helped the company grow. HOH is a proud partner with a significant role on Illinois Tollway GEC and Metra PMO contracts, as well as a prime and subcontractor for architecture and engineering design on public sector contracts with municipalities and agencies like the City of Chicago, Illinois Tollway, Illinois Department of Transit, Chicago Transit Authority. Additionally, HOH is working on some of the most complex industrial and commercial projects in the region. Santiago through The HOH Group gives back to communities through partnerships with groups like SOS Children’s Villages, Salvation Army, and Joey’s Angels.
Santiago has nearly 30 years of experience leading his companies and teams to success, and he’s proud to say that he has not only achieved the American Dream, but now helps others achieve their dreams as well.
Santiago Garcia is a first-generation American. Growing up in Chicago, his parents taught him the benefits of hard work, dedication, and supporting your community. At a young age, Santiago decided that the best way to honor his parents, their hard work and the risks they took leaving their families in Mexico and building their family in America, was to achieve the American Dream for his family. Santiago got to work on his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees.
He started an environmental sampling company in 1995, and later expanded the business to include material testing. In 2019, Santiago moved away from the environmental sampling and material testing business, and acquired The HOH Group, a full-service architecture and engineering firm with specialties in architecture, construction management, and civil, structural, and MEP design. This acquisition was transformational and the first in Chicagoland where a Minority owner acquired a Majority firm.