About ARTBA: 2008 Officers

Congratulations to the following individuals who were elected to serve one-year terms as ARTBA's 2008 officers.

Leo Vecellio, Jr., chairman, president and chief executive officer, The Vecellio Group, Inc., West Palm Beach, Fla.

Charles Potts, chief executive officer, Heritage Construction & Materials, Indianapolis, Ind.

Steve Wright, vice president, Wright Brothers Construction Co., Charleston, Tenn.

Jack Belvedere, vice president and director of highways and bridges, CH2M HILL, Oakland, Calif.

Ron DeFeo, chairman and chief executive officer, Terex Corporation, Westport, Conn.

Robert Heitmann, vice president, Zachry American Infrastructure, San Antonio, Texas

Larry Lair, vice president of Traffic Safety Systems Division, 3M, St. Paul, Minn.

Nick Ivanoff, president and chief executive officer, Ammann and Whitney, New York, N.Y.

The following individuals were elected for a three-year term as ARTBA directors:

Michael Agee, government affairs and market development vice president, Rogers Group Inc., Nashville, Tenn.
Jim Ahern, president, Ahern & Associates, South Charleston, W.Va.
Foster Beach, III, executive vice president and director of marketing, Hatch Mott MacDonald, Inc., Rockville, Md.
David C. Bramble, president, David A. Bramble, Inc., Chestertown, Md.
Jack D. Bryant, president, Bryant Associates, Inc., Boston, Mass.
James D. Crowley, vice president, Quixote Transportation Safety, Chicago, Ill.
Thomas S. Elmore, president, Eutaw Construction Co., Inc., Aberdeen, Miss.
Gregory G. Henk, strategic programs manager, Carter & Burgess, Inc., Santa Ana, Calif.
Kathleen Holst, president, NES Traffic Safety, Romeoville, Ill.
Clarence LaBar, president, Empco-Lite, Elgin, Ill.
Robert C. Lanham, vice president, Williams Brothers Construction Co., Inc., Houston, Texas
Robert H. Luffy, vice president, American Bridge Co., Coraopolis, Pa.
Robert L. Mabardy, executive vice president, The Middlesex Corp., Littleton, Mass.
Kent Marshall, vice president, Granite Construction Co., Watsonville, Calif.
Richard Markwith, vice president, DMJM Harris, Atlanta, Ga.
Jan L. Menuez, president, V.O. Menuez & Sons, Inc., Millersburg, Ohio
Charles R. Norton, vice president of marketing, Trinity Industries, Inc., Centerville, Utah
Phil Oglesby, III, president, Sandusky Bay Construction Company, Inc., Norwalk, Ohio
James R. Peterson, chairman, James Peterson & Sons, Inc., Medford, Wis.
Scott W. Peterson, president, Edward Kraemer & Sons, Inc., Plain, Wis.
Phillip E. Russell, Texas Turnpike division director, Texas Department of Transportation, Austin, Texas
Matthew Shorb, vice president, Elderlee, Inc., and L.S. Lee., York, Pa.
Dennis J. Slater, president, Association of Equipment Manufacturers, Milwaukee, Wis.
W. Mark Sterling, president, The Beaver Excavating Co., Canton, Ohio
Robert D. Stevens, Ph.D., executive vice president, ARCADIS, Highlands Ranch, Colo.
R.T. Summers, president, Summers-Taylor, Inc., Elizabethton, Tenn.
Terrell W. Temple, president, Engineering Plus, Inc., Meridian, Miss.
Melissa Tooley, director, Texas Transportation Institute-University Transportation Center for Mobility, College Station, Texas.