Donald Fusilli, CEO of Two Design Firms, Dies

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Donald P. Fussilli Jr., who rose from assistant engineer to CEO at Michael Baker Corp., Pittsburgh, and then took a chief executive role at David Evans Marine Sciences Inc., died on May 17 in Adams Township, Pa., of complications related to brain cancer. He was 59. Fusilli, who also served as Michael Baker's general counsel, went on to lead the firm's energy group's expansion into Asia and South America in the 1990s. He became corporate president in 2000 and CEO in 2001, leading a company restructuring. Fusilli was named to head the David Evans Associates' subsidiary in 2008 and became a principal of Telum Group LLC, a management consulting firm, in 2009. He was honored in 2003 and 2005 for his support of his alma mater, the Villanova University College of Engineering.

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