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Audit
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Compensation
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Nominating and Corporate Governance
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Investment, Finance and Strategy
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Win Westfall
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Chairman of the Board
Willdan Group, Inc. Win Westfall has served as Chairman of the Board since May 2006, and has been a member of our board of directors since 2001. Mr. Westfall was our Senior Vice President of Corporate Relations from January 2004 to May 2006, and was a regional manager in northern California from 1998 through January 2004. Mr. Westfall has over 35 years experience as a line manager for consulting engineering firms, and has served as city engineer for seven California cities. Mr. Westfall received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1962, and a M.B.A. from Pepperdine University in 1980. Mr. Westfall is a fellow of The Society of American Military Engineers and has been active in numerous other professional associations. During 1997, he served as the National President for The American Public Works Association, the first private consultant to hold this position. Mr. Westfall has served on and chaired national committees for the American Council of Engineering Companies, and in 2004 was made an Honorary CLOD (past president) of the County Engineers Association of California, the first private consultant to be accorded this honor, as well. He has held civil engineering registrations in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada and Washington.
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Thomas D. Brisbin, Ph.D.
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President and Chief Executive Officer
Willdan Group, Inc. Thomas D. Brisbin, Ph.D., joined WGI as President and Chief Executive Officer in April 2007. Dr. Thomas Brisbin has a track record of success in the engineering consulting business, and a strong background in the municipal markets that form the core of our business. Prior to joining WGI, Dr. Brisbin was the Vice President of AECOM Technology Corporation, a subsidiary of AECOM, the global provider of professional technical and management support services with clients in more than 60 countries. Prior to AECOM, he was the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Tetra Tech, a Pasadena based corporation that provides specialized management consulting and technical services in the areas of resource management and infrastructure. Dr. Brisbin joined Tetra Tech after it acquired PRC Environment Management, Inc., the company he founded and built into a business with over $100 million in annual revenues. Earlier in his career, he specialized in water and wastewater studies and design projects for municipalities and industry.
Dr. Brisbin holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Biology from Northern Illinois University. His post-graduate studies include the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University.
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Linda L. Heil
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Director Linda L. Heil has served as a member of our Board of Directors since May 2006 and currently is our largest individual stockholder. Mrs. Heil is the widow of Dan Heil who co-founded the company in 1964. Mr. Heil served as our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman from the company's inception until 1993, and then again from 1995 until his passing in May 2006. Mrs. Heil is retired from active employment but has been a licensed real estate agent since 1977 and has practiced periodically.
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W. Tracy Lenocker
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Director W. Tracy Lenocker served as a member of the Board of Directors periodically since the 1980s and continuously from 1997 through February 2007. After serving as our interim President and Chief Executive Officer from February 2007 through April 2007, he once again joined our Board of Directors in April 2007. Mr. Lenocker also serves as the chairperson of both the compensation and nominating and corporate governance committees of the Board of Directors, and previously served on the Company's audit committee. Mr. Lenocker is currently the President and majority owner of Civilsoft which provides civil engineering and geographic information systems, or GIS, software worldwide. He also founded Lenocker & Associates in 1995 which provides GIS services to public agencies. He has worked in both the public and private engineering sectors in California and Florida. Mr. Lenocker was a part-time instructor in civil engineering at California State University, Long Beach from 1980 to 1991. He is past chairman of the American Society of Civil Engineers, or ASCE, Committee on Computer Practices and received the national ASCE award in Computing in Civil Engineering. Mr. Lenocker received a B.S. in Civil Engineering in 1975 from the University of Florida, and a M.S. in Civil Engineering from California State University, Long Beach in 1980. Mr. Lenocker is a registered civil engineer in California.
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Keith W. Renken
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Director Keith W. Renken joined our Board of Directors in September 2006. Mr. Renken retired in 1992 as Senior Partner and Chairman, Executive Committee of Southern California, for the public accounting firm Deloitte & Touche. He currently is an adjunct professor in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He serves as a director on the boards of two publicly held companies, East West Bancorp, Inc. since 2000 and 21st Century Insurance Group since 2002. Mr. Renken is a Certified Public Accountant in the states of Arizona and California, as well as a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants. He received a B.S. in Business Administration in 1957 from the University of Arizona, and a M.S. in Business Administration from the University of Arizona in 1959.
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Wayne Shelton
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Director Wayne Shelton was elected to the Board of Directors on April 22, 2008, and appointed to the Audit Committee of the Board.
Mr. Shelton served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Hughes Information Systems, an information systems and engineering firm and subsidiary of Hughes Aircraft Company, from 1990 until his retirement in 1997. From 1987 until 1990, Mr. Shelton served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Planning Research Corporation ("PRC"), a global engineering and technology services firm and wholly owned subsidiary of Emhart Corporation. Prior to becoming PRC's Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Shelton was PRC's President and Chief Operating Officer. Additionally, from 1985 to 1990, Mr. Shelton served as executive vice president of Emhart Corporation, a multinational manufacturing, electronics and chemical company. Mr. Shelton currently serves as a trustee for Inova Health System ("Inova"), a not-for-profit health care system. Mr. Shelton is also a member of Inova's audit and compliance subcommittees.
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John M. Toups
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Director John M. Toups joined our Board of Directors in April 2007. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of PRC from 1978 until his retirement in 1987. Prior to that, Mr. Toups served in various executive positions with PRC. For a short period of time in 1990, he served as interim Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of the National Bank of Washington and Washington Bancorp. Mr. Toups serves as a director of three public companies: Halifax Corporation, an electronic services company, GTSI Corp., a reseller of software and hardware, and NVR, Inc., a homebuilding and mortgage banking company. In addition, he serves as a director of two privately held companies, Information Technology Analysis Corporation ("ITAC"), an information technology services firm, and Dewberry & Davis, an engineering services firm. Mr. Toups received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1949. He is a registered civil engineer in California and Maryland and a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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