MidAtlantic People: August 2023
Skanska has announced that Kerim Evin and Greg Peele will serve as regional executive officers and that Bryant Farland has stepped down from his regional executive officer role to become Edged Energy chief executive officer. Evin, who is based in Boston, will assume REO responsibility for a region that includes Delaware and Pennsylvania and other states. Peele, who is based in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, now covers a regional territory that includes Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia.
Engineering firm Sanborn, Head & Associates Inc. has named Carolyn Silverthorn as senior vice president of finance, based in Horsham, Pa. The New Hampshire company says she had previously served as chief financial officer of McMahon, a unit of Bowman Co.
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) has named Prianka Sharma as its vice president and counsel for regulatory affairs, based in Washington, D.C. Previously, she served in the U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy as assistant chief counsel for agriculture, energy and natural resources policy. Sharma will play a lead role in ARTBA’s regulatory and legal matters before the courts and federal agencies
Bentley Systems Inc. has named Sheilah Brous as senior director for North America mobility, based in Exton, Pa. She was director of the Maryland Dept. of Transportation office of policy and regulations, overseeing administrative policy for more than 10,000 employees and contractors. She also had served as government relations manager and acting director of federal, state and local government affairs for WSSC Water, among the largest water and wastewater utilities in the nation.
The Pennsylvania State Senate has confirmed Gov. Josh Shapiro (D)’s nomination of Rich Negrin as secretary of the state Dept. of Environmental Protection. He had been Philadelphia city manager and deputy mayor of administration and coordination. Serving as DEP chief in an acting capacity, Negrin has worked to secure federal funding to cap orphaned and abandoned oil and gas wells and create its center of environmental excellence, as well as leading its efforts in permit reform and environmental justice, according to the department.
Engineering Consulting Services (ECS) Mid-Atlantic has promoted Marco Gravina to geotechnical associate principal engineer in Frederick, Md. He has worked on projects across the U.S. and in the Middle East and Latin America. Nate Schwartz has joined the firm in Baltimore as a construction materials principal engineer. He formerly held three managerial roles for engineering-stability firm Froehling & Robertson in Columbia, Md. Also joining the company are Guillermo Bustamante, as a geotechnical senior project engineer in York, Pa., and Raghu Peddishree, as a group manager in the construction materials testing department in Philadelphia.
Spiezle Architectural Group Inc., a full-service architectural, interior design, landscape architecture and planning firm, promoted Bob Reid from associate principal to principal. Reid, who is located in Greater Philadelphia, has been with Spiezle for five years.
Architecture firm Moody Nolan has named Louis Chang, the architecture firm’s recently appointed director of operations and associate principal, to head its new Philadelphia office. Before joining the firm in February, he was a design leader at NELSON Worldwide, also based in the city. The office will continue work in sectors such as education, mixed-use, housing, civic, hospitality and life sciences.
