Jacksonville, Florida-based RS&H announced the following appointments: Tara Wineinger has joined the firm as executive vice president, chief people officer, working as part of the executive team to support the firm’s strategic vision and growth objectives. She will also collaborate across the organization and help drive initiatives to further advance RS&H’s culture and diversity, equity, and inclusion and safety programs. Wineinger is based in Houston. Madhuri Rao has joined the firm as senior vice president and corporate controller. Rao developed a deep technical knowledge serving entrepreneurial audit clients at PwC and EY and held roles at global public companies, including Fluor, Celanese, and Nortel. Igor Dabik and Valentin Villalbi have joined the firm as senior vice presidents of corporate investment strategy. Both Dabik and Villalbi previously spent the last six years at Deloitte, where they co-led the infrastructure investment advisory business as part of the firm’s valuation and modeling practice.
Jennifer Prescott has joined Bostonbased CDM Smith as senior vice president and incoming chief digital and information officer. She succeeds chief information officer Dave Neitz, who is retiring. Prescott formerly served as senior vice president, chief information officer, and innovation lead at Kleinfelder. Prescott is based in CDM Smith’s Denver office.
New York City-based Thornton Tomasetti announced the following appointments: Alan Matuszak joined the structural engineering practice as vice president in the firm’s Houston office. He formerly served as a principal with Matrix Structural Engineers. Lisa MacKay joined the firm’s New York transportation team as vice president. She formerly served as an associate vice president at AECOM. Prudence Ferreira joined the firm’s sustainability practice as a vice president. Based in the Portland, Maine, office, Ferreira will head up the firm’s passive buildings consulting team. She joins the company from BR+A Consulting Engineers.
Rockville, Maryland-based AMT announced the following vice president promotions: Billy Badger serves as the director of construction services and manages AMT’s construction engineering and inspection business unit. Matt Ernest serves as a director of the firm’s site civil business unit with oversight of federal, state, and utility clients. Jeff McKay has assumed the role of director of transportation and leads the transportation business unit with a focus on client service and continued growth and expansion. He is active with ACEC Virginia. Aaron Smith serves as a director of AMT’s site civil business unit with oversight of municipal and private clients. Smith serves on the ACEC/MW Board.