BSCES Announces 2023-2024 Board of Government

Members of the BSCES Board of Government are pleased to announce the results of the 2023-2024 BSCES Board of Government elections which concluded on May 5, 2023. Members of the 2023-2024 Board will take their oath of office during a June 13 Board meeting and will officially assume oversight of BSCES with the beginning of the 2024 BSCES fiscal year on July 1, 2023. Thank you to everyone who voted in the election.

The members of the 2023-2024 BSCES Board are as follows:

BSCES Board of Government

President:
Michael R. Cunningham, PE, Kleinfelder

President-Elect:
Christopher P. Hersey, LEED AP, Suffolk

Secretary:
Rishabh V. Iyer, PE, Kleinfelder

Treasurer:
Gregory L. Mirliss, STS, AECOM

Senior Vice President:
Kathryn Swanson, PE, CDM Smith

Senior Vice President:
Richard A. Matson, PE, AECOM

Vice President:
Antonios Vytiniotis, PhD, PE, Geocomp Corporation

Vice President:
Anuja Kamat, PhD, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Past President:
Ronald K. Burns, PE, LEED AP, Arcadia Technology, Inc.

Coasts, Oceans, Ports & Rivers Institute Boston Chapter Chair:
Daniel B. Robbins, PE, GEI Consultants, Inc.

Construction Institute Boston Chapter Chair:
Edward G. Breed, Skanska USA Civil

Engineering Management Group Chair:
Vacant

Environmental & Water Resources Institute Boston Chapter Chair:
Yan Zhang, PhD, PE, CFM, AECOM

Geo-Institute Boston Chapter Chair:
Scott J. Kibby, PE, Mott MacDonald, LLC

Structural Engineering Institute Boston Chapter Chair:
Diego S. Arabbo, PE, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc.

Transportation & Development Institute Boston Chapter Chair:
Anna Dastgheib-Beheshti, PE, Arup

Utility Engineering & Surveying Institute Boston Chapter Chair:
Sean P. Donlon, Jr., PE, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc.

Younger Member Group Chair:
James B. Gayle, L.A. Fuess Partners

The incoming Board members, along with members of the 2022-2023 Board, will be recognized during the 174th BSCES Annual Awards Dinner, scheduled to take place on Thursday, June 29, 2023 at the Royal Sonesta Boston. During the dinner, the BSCES president will present annual awards, celebrate ASCE Life Members, and honor our newest Honorary Members, Don J. DeGroot, ScD, PE, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Paul L. Kelley, PE, Senior Principal, Simpson Gumpertz and Heger Inc. This dinner will feature keynote speaker Katherine Antos, Undersecretary for Decarbonization and Resilience at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.