Sandy Spring Builders Announces Ray Sobrino as President of Company


Phil Leibovitz, CEO, and Mimi Brodsky Kress, COO, of Sandy Spring Builders, LLC, announced today that Ramon (Ray) Sobrino will now become the new President of the company. The Bethesda-based company is a 38 year old award winning, full-service residential builder and developer, known as one of the industry’s best.

They are pleased to announce that Ray Sobrino, who has been their Executive VP of Construction since August 2018, will become President of Sandy Spring Builders effective immediately. “Since joining Sandy Spring Builders, we have witnessed Ray’s leadership, knowledge and experience firsthand, especially with highly detailed custom homes,” said Phil Leibovitz. Ray is builder, architect and manager all in one, with an incredible amount of experience.

Ray has close to 40 years of experience in residential homebuilding, land development and community planning. He is a licensed architect (graduate of the School of Architecture and Planning at Catholic University) with professional registration in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. He has tremendous knowledge and resources in the industry. His hands-on management approach has worked seamlessly with the Sandy Spring team, and he has brought in some new talented team members under his leadership.

“Having known Ray for close to 30 years, there was a strong level of trust in bringing him onto our executive team,” said Leibovitz. “We are so lucky to have him. In my mind our expertise at Sandy Spring Builders is unparalleled in our industry. We knew that he had an excellent sense of aesthetics and quality in home building which is so important to us and our clients. Ray’s commitment to excellence in building and customer service is a core value that led us to name him as President of Sandy Spring Builders – he is dedicated to helping us maintain our stellar reputation.”

Phil Leibovitz will continue to serve as CEO and Mimi Kress as COO.

About Sandy Spring Builders

Since 1982, Bethesda-based custom home builder Sandy Spring Builders has served the Washington, D.C. region. Widely considered among the finest high-end custom home builders and remodelers in the area, Sandy Spring Builders’ homes are distinguished by exceptional beauty and craftsmanship. For the past several decades, Sandy Spring Builders has earned multiple Gold and Silver Custom Home Awards from the Maryland Building Industry Association and has been “Reader’s Pick for Best Builder” by Bethesda Magazine every year since the inception of their Best of Bethesda awards.

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