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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 our Chairman of the Board since May 2006, and has been a member of our board of directors since 2001. Mr. Westfall was our President and Chief Executive Officer from May 2006 to February 2007, our Senior Vice President of Corporate Relations from January 2004 to May 2006, and 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 an 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 is a registered civil engineer in California, 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 joined our Board of Directors in April 2007, when he was also appointed our President and Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Brisbin previously was vice president of and consultant for AECOM Technology Corporation, or AECOM, since spring 2004. At AECOM, a company focused on infrastructure, environment and facilities engineering contracts, Dr. Brisbin was responsible for developing the company's environmental business. Prior to joining AECOM, Dr. Brisbin was chief operating officer and executive vice president of Tetra Tech, Inc., a leading provider of consulting, engineering and technical services, for five years. Prior to that, he was employed by Planning Research Corporation, or PRC, a systems analysis and management consulting company and wholly-owned subsidiary of The Black & Decker Corporation, in 1978 and was co-founder and President of PRC Environmental Management, Inc. During his 17-year tenure at PRC, he was involved in all aspects of operations, marketing and finance. Before joining PRC, he was a research associate at Argonne National Laboratory. He has also served as an adjunct professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Dr. Brisbin holds a B.S. degree from Northern Illinois University and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology. He also completed Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program in 1988.
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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 is a member of Investment, Finance and Strategy Committee. Mrs. Heil is currently our largest individual stockholder and 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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Raymond W. Holdsworth
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Director Raymond W. Holdsworth joined our Board of Directors in June 2009 and is member of our Nominating and Corporate Governance and Investment, Finance and Strategy Committees. Mr. Holdsworth.served as Vice Chairman of Corporate Development for AECOM from October 2005 through March 2009, and he continues to work as a consultant for AECOM. Mr. Holdsworth joined AECOM in 1992 and held a number of positions, including President, before being named Vice Chairman in 2005. During his tenure at AECOM, he led a variety of outreach, growth and diversification activities. Mr. Holdsworth began his career at Peat Marwick Mitchell and worked in California's Office of Transportation Planning and Research. He has also held senior management positions with DMJM, an engineering/architectural firm in the transportation and infrastructure industry which is now a major operating subsidiary of AECOM, International Technology Corp. and Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas Inc., a company that provides strategic consulting, planning, engineering, and program and construction management services relating to infrastructure. Mr. Holdsworth serves as a director of Sundt Corporation, Inc., a private company that builds projects for public and private clients throughout the United States, and as a Trustee for California State University. Mr. Holdsworth received a B.A. in English in 1964 from Lake Forest College and an M.B.A in 1969 from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business. He is a former Chairman of the California Chamber of Commerce and a former Vice Chairman of the Civil Engineering Research Foundation/International Institute.
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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 serves as the chairperson of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and is a member of our Investment, Finance and Strategy Committee, and he previously served on our Audit and Compensation Committees. Mr. Lenocker is currently the President and majority owner of Lenocker Consulting Group which provides civil engineering and geographic information systems, or GIS, consulting services. 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 an 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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Douglas J. McEachern
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Director Douglas J. McEachern joined our Board of Directors in June 2009 and is a member of our Audit and Compensation Committees. Mr. McEachern has been an Audit Partner at Deloitte & Touche, LLP, or Deloitte, since July 1985. Mr. McEachern was a staff member and manager at Deloitte's predecessor, Touche Ross & Co., from 1976 to 1983. From 1983 to 1985, he was the Professional Accounting Fellow with the Federal Home Loan Bank Board in Washington D.C. Mr. McEachern is the Audit Committee Chairman of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles. He is also a member of the Methodist Hospital of Arcadia and Arcadia Public Library Foundation boards of directors. Additionally, Mr. McEachern is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, or AICPA, the California Society of Certified Public Accountants, or CalCPA, and the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, or NAREIT. Mr. McEachern received a B.S in Business Administration in 1974 from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. in 1976 from the University of Southern California.
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Keith W. Renken
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Lead Director Keith W. Renken joined our Board of Directors in September 2006. He is the chairperson of our Audit Committee and a member of our Investment, Finance and Strategy Committees, and he previously served on our Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. 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 an 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 joined our Board of Directors in April 2008. He is the chairperson of our Compensation Committee and a member of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees, and he previously served on our Audit, Investment, Finance and Strategy Committees. 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 PRC. 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 and the parent company of PRC. Mr. Shelton currently serves as a trustee for Inova Health System, a not-for-profit health care system, and as a member of their audit and compliance subcommittees. Mr. Shelton received his B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota in 1954.
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John M. Toups
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Director John M. Toups joined our Board of Directors in April 2007. Mr. Toups serves as chairperson of our Investment, Finance and Strategy Committee and is a member of our Audit and Compensation Committees and he previously served on our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Toups 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, Dinte Resources, Inc., an executive search 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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