Van Port Fleet Tapped as Michigan DOT’s Director
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder named Mark Van Port Fleet (seen above) as director of the Michigan Department of Transportation on Oct. 30 to replace Kirk Steudle, who retired on Oct. 31 after serving as the agency’s director for the past 12 years. Van Port Fleet’s appointment, subject to the advice and consent of Michigan’s legislature, is effective Nov. 1. A 38-year veteran of the Michigan DOT, Van Port Fleet previously served as the agency’s senior chief deputy and has championed “innovative con...
Jeanneret Named ARTBA Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
(WASHINGTON) - Matthew J. Jeanneret has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Washington, D.C.-based American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA), effective Nov. 1. Jeanneret, who joined ARTBA in 1998 as director of public affairs, has been serving as the association’s deputy chief operating officer since January. As ARTBA’s senior vice president of communications and marketing over the past decade, he led its award-winning external communicatio...
IECA Region One Welcomes New Executive Director
Denver, CO – The International Erosion Control Association (IECA) Region One board of directors and staff welcomes Samantha Roe, IOM, as the new executive director of the association. “We’re excited to announce Samantha as the new executive director to take our association in a new direction,” stated Tom Schneider, CPESC, IECA president. “IECA is looking to expand our value to our membership, develop an initiative to attract a younger audience and continue to expand our importance in bot...
Agile Frameworks CEO Bob Tuttle to Present at the Geoprofessional Business Association Fall Conference on Leveraging Field and Sensor Data to Drive New Revenue Opportunities
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Agile Frameworks®, the leading provider of collaborative, cloud-based corporate, field, and lab information management enabling Profitable Engineering® for the construction and engineering services sector, today announced that CEO Bob Tuttle will speak at the upcoming GBA Fall Conference 2018 on key strategies AEC firms can deploy to gain better insight into data to help drive new revenue streams. Tuttle will be joined by Todd Williams, senior managing director, Dillon K...
KAI Hires Dan Forguson as Vice President of Finance
(St. Louis, MO, Oct. 31, 2018) KAI Design & Build proudly announces the addition of Dan Forguson of Columbia, Illinois as Vice President of Finance. In his new role, Forguson reports to the CFO and is responsible for providing enterprise leadership in the areas of financial planning and analysis, mergers and acquisitions, and project controls. “As KAI continues to experience both organic and acquisitive growth, we are placing a high priority in the area of business analytics,” said Forguso...
Robert Turton Joins Bridge Practice at WSP
TEMPE, ARIZONA — Robert Turton has joined WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy, as vice president and complex bridge manager, for the firm’s West region. Turton, who is based in the firm’s Tempe, Arizona office, is responsible for supporting the pursuit and delivery of complex bridges, including long-span, movable, concrete segmental and bridge asset management services. “Rob is a nationally recognized professional and specialist w...
Ashur Yoseph Joins WSP’s San Francisco Office
SAN FRANCISCO — Ashur Yoseph has joined WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy, as a senior vice president in the firm’s San Francisco office. In his new role, Yoseph will be responsible for business development in support of WSP’s property and buildings and transportation and infrastructure businesses. His more than three decades of experience includes advancing and implementing strategies to increase public as well as private sector expansion. Yose...
Tanya Langman Joins HNTB as Client Financial Consultant
NEW YORK – Tanya Langman joined HNTB Corporation as client financial consultant and associate vice president, specializing in the toll industry. She is based in the firm’s New York City office in the Empire State Building and works with transportation clients throughout the country. Langman brings more than a decade of credit risk analysis experience, including analysis for standard toll roads and managed lanes, toll roads criteria development, credit analysis for all transportation an...
Young Tapped to be Vice Chair of AASHTO’s TC3 Council
Chris Young, workforce development director for the Texas Department of Transportation, began a two-year term as vice chair of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ Transportation Curriculum Coordination Council or TC3 on Oct. 23; a term that will officially wrap up at the end of the 2021 TC3 Annual Meeting. TC3, launched in summer 2000, functions as a partnership among state departments of transportation, government entities, and AASHTO, along with other ind...
U.S. LBM Names John Gorczynski Vice President Of Exterior Products
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. - U.S. LBM Holdings, LLC ("U.S. LBM"), a leading distributor of specialty building materials in the United States, has named John Gorczynski vice president of Exterior Products. In this newly created role, Gorczynski is responsible for developing and leading U.S. LBM's market growth strategy in exterior products. A 34-year veteran of the building materials industry, Gorczynski joins U.S. LBM from GAF, a leading roofing and waterproofing manufacturer in North America, where...