ACEC Illinois Committee:

Risk Management

COMMITTEE MEETING DATES & LOG IN:

Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89241036825?pwd=jC9SAh5m0J5WA5Wskfs02wBnkZXKIz.1

2024-2025 Committee Meetings:
04/28/2025 - Virtual

2025-2026:
11/10/2025 - Virtual
2/12/2026 - Virtual

COMMITTEE AGENDAS:

2/12/2026 

COMMITTEE MINUTES:

Link here

Risk Management

  • Jake Winkler

    Account Executive, Holmes Murphy & Associates, Inc.

    Co-Chair

  • Erin Winner

    General Counsel, HR Green, Inc.

    Co-Chair

  • John Ambrose

    President/CEO, Baxter & Woodman, Inc.

    Member

  • Mike Banashek

    Horner & Shifrin, Inc.

    Member

  • Jennifer Barth

    Infrastructure Engineering, Inc.

    Member

  • Brandon Bell

    SVP of Operations, Valdes Engineering

    Member

  • Brett Benhoff

    Executive Vice President, HMG Engineers, Inc.

    Member

  • Mark Blankenship

    Director of Risk Management, WTW A&E

    Member

  • Brian Buchheit

    Brian Buchheit

    P.E., BCEE

    CEO, HMG Engineers, Inc.

    Member

  • Jeremy Buening

    Principal, Chastain & Associates LLC

    Member

  • Taed Cejtin

    AECOM

    Member

  • Aaron Chanowitz

    Vice President, Jacobs Engineering Group

    Member

  • Eric Cockerill

    Vice President, Donohue & Associates, Inc.

    Member

  • Jeremy Connor

    Director of Transportation, Hurst-Rosche Engineers, Inc.

    Member

  • Brian Converse

    President/General Manager, Willett, Hofmann & Associates, Inc.

    Member

  • Brian Converse

    President/General Manager, Willett, Hofmann & Associates, Inc.

    Member

  • Buddy Desai

    Vice President, Hg Consult, Inc.

    Member

  • Paula Dixon

    Sr. Vice President, Holmes Murphy & Associates, Inc.

    Member

  • Kelsey Dollens

    Mackie Consultants, LLC

    Member

  • Michael Dumas

    RINA North America

    Member

  • Tamima Elbashbisky

    Consertus

    Member

  • Joseph Elberts

    CFO, Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd.

    Member

  • Douglas Erickson

    Vice President, Benton Engineering

    Member

  • Adenike Fasanya-Oilaja

    Adenike Fasanya-Oilaja

    LLM

    Business Development Specialist, ABNA

    Member

  • Ted Feenstra

    Director of Land Development, V3 Companies

    Member

  • Mike Flatt

    Hanson Professional Services Inc.

    Member

  • Charles Frangos

    CEO, Orion Engineers, LLC

    Member

  • Todd Gordon

    CEO, Gewalt-Hamilton Associates, Inc.

    Member

  • Roger Guilian

    Greyling Insurance

    Member

  • Tristan Harper

    Prairie Engineers, P.C. Columbia

    Member

  • Thomas Hein

    Vice President | Area Manager IL & IN, HDR

    Member

  • Dennis Hollahan

    Hanson Professional Services Inc.

    Member

  • Liviu Iordache

    Terracon Consultants, Inc.

    Member

  • Jeff Frantz

    Member

  • Peter Johnston

    Principal, Graef-USA Inc.

    Member

  • KATHERINE JONES

    Partner, O'Hagan Meyer

    Member

  • KATHERINE JONES

    Partner, O'Hagan Meyer

    Member

  • Joe Kirby

    Klingner & Associates, P.C.

    Member

  • Paul Kovacs

    Chief Engineer, Bowman Consulting Group, Ltd.

    Member

  • Voytek Kowalczyk

    Vice President, AECOM

    Member

  • Luke Lance

    Terracon Consultants, Inc.

    Member

  • Jeffery Large

    Crawford, Murphy & Tilly, Inc.

    Member

  • Edward Leonard

    Senior Project Manager, Exp. U.S. Services Inc.

    Member

  • Michael Levin

    Michael Levin

    Principal, Trucordia

    Member

  • Connor Londrigan

    Quigg Engineering, Inc.

    Member

  • Ryan Macander

    Principal, Senior Vice President, GFT Infrastructure, Inc.

    Member

  • Arielle Malinowski

    AVP, Illinois State Leader, Infrastructure, RS&H, Inc.

    Member

  • Majid Mastali

    Lead Consultant, WSP USA Inc.

    Member

  • Vivian Mateega

    HR Manager, Singh & Associates, Inc.

    Member

  • John Mayer

    Principal, Engineering Resource Associates

    Member

  • David McGibbon

    Regional Leader, US North Central, Stantec Consulting Services, Inc.

    Member

  • Andrew Mendelson

    Andrew Mendelson

    FAIA

    Executive Vice President / Chief Risk Management Officer, Berkley Design Professional Underwriters

    Member

  • Linda Moen

    President, EFK - Moen, LLC

    Member

  • Luis Montgomery

    President, 2IM Group, LLC

    Member

  • Brad Navarro

    Director of Operations, Walker Parking Consultants

    Member

  • Graig Neville

    President, Rain Engineering

    Member

  • Ronald Nordmeyer

    Senior Project Manager, Clark Dietz, Inc.

    Member

  • Junell O'Donnell

    Parsons

    Member

  • Jack Ormond

    Farnsworth Group

    Member

  • Yvonne Owusu-Safo

    President, Transland Engineering Group, LLC

    Member

  • Thomas Paolicchi

    Engineering Manager, ABNA

    Member

  • Jean-Alix Peralte

    Jean-Alix Peralte

    PE, PTOE

    President and CEO, Peralte-Clark, LLC

    Member

  • Jordan Pettibone

    Lochmueller Group

    Member

  • Wyatt Quigley

    CIC

    Commercial Risk Advisor, J.Krug

    Member

  • Benjamin Redding

    Benjamin Redding

    PE, Env Sp

    Senior Project Manager, Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc.

    Member

  • Jeremy Reynolds

    Associate Principal, GZA

    Member

  • Matt Riley

    H.W. Lochner, Inc.

    Member

  • Oscar Rivera

    General Counsel, Primera Engineers, Ltd.

    Member

  • Melissa Roberts

    Vice President, USI Insurance Service LLC

    Member

  • Jeffery Rothamer

    Director of Technical Services, Chicago Testing Laboratory, Inc.

    Member

  • Stephen Safranek

    General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, & Director of Legal Services, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.

    Member

  • Bradley Sanderson

    Chief Operating Officer / President, Engineering Enterprises, Inc.

    Member

  • Edward Schoonveld

    Vice Preisdent, J.A. Watts, Inc

    Member

  • Brian Scifers

    Project Manager, SE3 LLC

    Member

  • Tej Shastri

    Tecma Associates, Inc.

    Member

  • David Silvester

    Civil Design, Inc.

    Member

  • Anthony Standish

    Director of Practice - Transportation, Strand Associates, Inc.

    Member

  • Toni Trovato

    Trucordia

    Member

  • Eric Watts

    Bacon Farmer Workman Engineering & Testing, Inc.

    Member

  • Brian Welker

    Sr, Vice President & COO, Crawford, Murphy & Tilly, Inc.

    Member

  • Todd Welz

    VP of Operations, Quigg Engineering, Inc.

    Member

  • Jeff Wickenkamp

    President, Hey and Associates, Inc.

    Member

  • Mark Wisthuff

    T. Y. Lin International, Inc.

    Member

  • Penny Wizer

    Risk Management Department, Benesch

    Member

  • Stephanie Wong

    President, SWE Solutions

    Member

  • Mark Wood

    American Surveying & Engineering P.C.

    Member

  • William Woodward

    Atlas Technical Consultants

    Member

  • Jonathon Zabrocki

    President, Robinson Engineering, Ltd.

    Member

  • Kevin Artl (C)

    President & CEO, ACEC-IL

    Staff

  • Miranda Berglin

    ACEC-IL

    Staff

  • Sarah Dean (C)

    Sarah Dean (C)

    Director of Leadership & Programming, ACEC-IL

    Staff

  • Emily Martinez

    ACEC-IL

    Staff

  • Bethany Rademaker

    Bethany Rademaker

    VP of Events and Marketing, ACEC-IL

    Staff

  • George Ghareeb

    Sr. Vice President, Terra Engineering, Ltd.

    Director