Richard K. Sykes is the independent Chairman of Dycom's Board of Directors and a director since 2018. He is a former Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company, where he was a management consultant from 1996 until his retirement in 2017, serving industrial, consumer and healthcare clients on enterprise transformation, strategy and operations and holding firm-level leadership roles including Managing Partner of McKinsey's Midwest Office; he chairs Dycom's Corporate Governance Committee.