ENR East People: January 2025
Jennifer Johnson has been promoted to president and CEO of Boston-based Nitsch Engineering, a transportation and structural engineer. She succeeds Lisa Brothers, who now is principal and board chair.
Safdie Architects, Boston, has elevated Jeff Huggins to senior partner, expanding the firm’s leadership team to six. Most recently, Huggins led design and development of Surbana Jurong Campus in Singapore—the first business park set in a rainforest—and was project architect for the country’s iconic three high-rise hotel towers at Marina Bay Sands.
Civil and environmental engineer Fuss & O’Neill has promoted Kevin Johnson to president and CEO, succeeding Kevin Grigg, who now is executive adviser. Johnson had been executive vice president of business development.
TMG Construction Corp., a Purcellville, Va., contractor and design-build firm, elevated Jason J. Lynch to president from vice president. He succeeds co-founder Tanya Matthews, who had been in the role since the firm was incorporated in 1992. She now is board chairman.
Professional services firm STV has promoted Marcos Diaz Gonzales to president of its transportation Northeast operating group and John Ponzio to executive vice president of its centers of excellence. Also, Garo Hovnanian joins STV in a newly created role as executive vice president of advisory services. He was a partner at consultant McKinsey & Co. Thomas Lentz has been promoted to vice president, now overseeing the firm’s national safety and security practice.
Skanska’s new MidAtlantic region—which includes Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina operations—is now led by Mark Balling. He is executive vice president and general manager.
WSP hired Coral Torres Cruz as senior vice president and grant strategy and development services lead. She was chief of staff for the undersecretary of transportation at the U.S. Dept. of Transportation.
Engineer VHB, Watertown, Mass., has elevated David Saladino and Bob Penfield to New England regional operations managers. Saladino will oversee operations in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont and Penfield in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. Susan Nichols becomes New England regional services manager.
Brian T. Dougherty has joined Wall, N.J., consulting firm French & Parrello Associates as manager of its water and wastewater group.
Bedford, Mass.-based regional electrical contractor State Electric Corp. now is a unit of E-J Group following its recent purchase by the New York City contractor. Ronnie Koning remains president, and Brendan Dickie is COO.
Michael Sci has joined STO Building Group, New York City, as senior vice president to lead its facilities construction services team. He was principal and COO of OC Group, a project management firm he founded, and previously a senior vice president at development firm JLL.
Kevin Corbett, former CEO of New Jersey Transit, is named a senior fellow at the Rutgers University School of Engineering Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation in New Brunswick, N.J. Appointed by Gov. Phil Murphy (D) in 2018, Corbett remains an agency consultant until Feb. 15. The agency and center have a $1.6-million U.S. Transportation Dept. grant to develop AI-based systems to improve light rail grade crossing safety.
