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MP Staff Announcements

Boston – Margulies Perruzzi (MP) announced it has promoted Caitlin Greenwood, AIA, IIDA and Jenna Meyers, IIDA, NCIDQ, LEED AP to partner.

As an architect and project manager, Greenwood brings extensive design experience to the MP team through all phases of design and construction. She has been with the firm for over 10 years, and is a member of the Workplace, Real Estate, and Science studios, spanning both architecture and interiors. Currently her focus is partnering with MP’s science team members to continue to grow and strengthen the studio.

As a senior interior designer, Meyers brings 15 years of extensive design experience to the MP team, contributing her strengths in design development, programming, project management, and coordination. As a Workplace studio

leader, she specializes in working closely with clients to create custom-designed spaces, reflecting their unique brand, mission, and culture. Meyers has helped develop several workplace strategy reports for the firm. The firm also announced it has named Kerrie Julian, RA, LEED AP, CDT as the new director Greenwood of science strategy. Reporting to Dan Perruzzi, AIA, LEED AP, principal and senior partner, Julian will be responsible for lending her expertise to projects, managing and recruiting staff, and developing new client relationships. She has over 25 years of experience in project programming, detailed design, and construction administration.

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Conn. Firm Announces Appointments

Glastonbury, CT – The S/L/A/M Collaborative (SLAM) announced that Gregory “Greg” Coles, AIA, principal, has been named president of the firm and is located in the Los Angeles office, and Terri Finucane, IIDA, principal, has been named chairman of the board and is located at the headquarters in Glastonbury.

Both outgoing President Robert Pulito, AIA, and Chairman Richard Connell, FAIA, will remain on the board and active in the day-to-day business of serving clients.

Finucane, the firm’s first woman to serve as chairman of the board, brings a career in interior design forged entirely at SLAM. Her expertise in interiors spans more than 35 years and has led to the formation, management, and growth of the firm’s Interiors Studio. She is currently the national market leader for the Corporate/Science & Technology practice and chair of the Human Resources Advisory Committee.

Coles brings more than 30 years of experience as an architect, having served as president for seven years, leading Frank Webb Architects, a healthcare practice that merged with SLAM in 2018. Prior to his appointment as president of SLAM, he served as market and design lead for the firm’s Los Angeles office, developing business opportunities for the healthcare and higher education practice. He has also served on the board of directors for the past four years.

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Send your personnel announcements to editor@high-profile.com Vermont Firm Hires Four

South Burlington, VT – ReArch Company announced the arrival of four new employees: Calvin Russell, Ryan Ahern, Hunter Gomez and Erik Heikel.

Russell joins ReArch as a senior project manager. He is responsible for overseeing some of ReArch’s most technically challenging construction projects, and serves as a mentor to the project management staff. He has over a decade of construction project management experience with national and local construction management firms.

Ahern joins the firm as the director of field operations. He works closely with the VP of construction and the senior management team to oversee all aspects of ReArch’s construction field operations in Vermont, New Hampshire, and the surrounding area. His responsibilities include assigning and overseeing ReArch’s field staff, fostering a strong safety culture, conducting career development sessions, and providing tools to support and help grow people in their careers.

As project managers, Gomez and Heikel are responsible for managing ReArch’s construction projects, working closely with the project superintendent, owner, design team, and subcontractors to ensure projects are on schedule, within budget, and in adherence with contract documents.

Gomez has over 10 years of project

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management experience in various construction leadership roles and has managed all aspects of large-scale capital construction projects from conception through project closeout. He managed the first LEED Gold-Version 4 project in the state of Idaho.

Heikel has over 20 years of construction management experience in various industries, including senior/assisted living, multi-family/student housing, and hospitality. He began his career in the custom home/residential market, and has a strong background in architectural millwork and interior finishes.

Weston & Sampson Hires Susan Jason

Reading, MA – Weston & Sampson announced that Susan Jason, LSP has joined the firm as a senior project manager.

Jason has over 20 years of experience resolving complex environmental release conditions on a wide range of impacted sites, including brownfield

Jason redevelopments. She has overseen site assessments and remedial investigations during all phases of MCP response actions, including as LSP/LSP of record on more than 100 sites. She will be assisting clients with their brownfield and other site assessment related needs.

AGC MA Promotes Frisbie

Wellesley, MA – The Associated General Contractors of Massachusetts (AGC MA) announced the recent promotion of Lisa Frisbie as the association’s first vice president of member services.

In this capacity, Frisbie will take on new responsibilities including coordination of communications, programming, and member recruitment strategies.

She joined AGC MA in 2015 as the director of business development and marketing. In that role, she led major

overhauls of the AGC MA communications platforms including websites, publications, and social media. Frisbie has helped guide the organization’s member engagement and outreach through programming, events, and committees. She was also Frisbie the founding staff member on the AGC MA Building Women in

Construction (BWiC) Committee which focuses on bringing gender equality issues forward and providing a forum for women to network in the industry.

Sasaki Appoints New Principals

Boston – Sasaki announced the promotion of Joshua Brooks, AICP, ASLA, PLA; Anna Cawrse, ASLA, PLA; and Andrew Gutterman, ASLA, PLA; to principal, and Tamar Warburg, AIA, LEED AP BD+C to associate principal.

Brooks is a designer, planner, and co-director of Sasaki’s Denver office. His work revolves around the intersection of people and infrastructure, where he works to promote human-centric urbanism through design that has ecological integrity and lasting social significance.

Cawrse is a landscape architect and co-director of Sasaki’s Denver office. She is responsible for leading significant public realm projects throughout North America with a specific focus on the Intermountain West.

Gutterman brings nearly two decades of professional experience as a landscape architect and his understanding of natural systems to inform all aspects of the planning and design process. His experience spans the full spectrum of project types, with a particular emphasis on creating high quality landscapes for academic and institutional clients.

Warburg is director of sustainability and resilience, and works with Sasaki teams to develop sustainability and resilience goals appropriate for each project and access critical resources to reach those goals. She works across all Sasaki disciplines, on projects as varied as net-zero campus buildings, resilience and sustainability strategies for cities and corporate clients, and minimizing carbon emissions from buildings and landscape projects.

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North Branch Welcomes Cerbone

Concord, NH – Michael Cerbone recently joined North Branch Construction as a project manager with over 20 years of experience in commercial construction.

Cerbone has experience working in active industrial environments, and commercial, educational, hospitality, multifamily housing, healthcare, and nonprofit sectors. He also has experience in safety and regulatory

compliance and the research and development of alternative energy projects. “After many years managing projects on the West Coast, we are very pleased Mike has moved to New Hampshire and has joined our team at Cerbone North Branch Construction,” said Joseph H. Campbell, North Branch

Construction president.

Colantonio Welcomes Three

Holliston, MA – Colantonio Inc. recently welcomed Project Superintendent Rocco Bollitier, Safety Manager Nicholas Fragola, and Senior Estimator Robert Manganello to the team.

Bollitier joins the firm with 17 years of construction experience as a general contractor, project manager, and project superintendent across a wide range of markets including science and data Bollitier centers, life sciences, academic, and hospitality.

Fragola has worked as a project safety manager and as an environmental specialist over the past five years. His construction experience includes One Post Office Square in Boston, the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, and the Billie Jean King Tennis Facility in New York.

Manganello brings 33 years of experience developing conceptual and hard bid estimates for public and private construction projects in the affordable housing, assisted living, public safety, medical office, hotel, and retail markets.

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Dellbrook|JKS Welcomes Eldemery

Quincy, MA – Dellbrook|JKS announced it welcomed Catriona Eldemery to the team as its first vice president of people. In this recently created executive position, Eldemery will work closely with the existing human resources department to enhance the employee experience at Dellbrook|JKS.

Dellbrook|JKS’s CEO, Mike Fish, announced at its annual company meeting that more than ever, the firm will focus on “our people.” Eldemery’s expertise will allow the company to achieve this goal, and her leadership will maintain Dellbrook|JKS’s family values, further employee-focused initiatives, and make sure each of the company’s over 250 team members is well-represented, according to the firm’s representatives.

Eldemery has many years of operational and human Eldemery

resources knowledge with extensive work history at the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. She served the enterprise for 30 years. More recently, she assisted in opening Back Bay’s social club, The Quin, as director of people and culture.

Alpine Welcomes Duchesne

Duchesne Chelmsford, MA – Alpine Environmental announced the addition of Mark Duchesne to its team. Duchesne will be joining the Client Services team with a focus on Alpine’s continued expansion into the commercial and federal markets.

Duchesne brings 14 years of experience as a sales rep for a commercial painting company in New Hampshire and, prior to that, 12 years of experience as a sales rep for Sherwin Williams paint.

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