The Annual APEX Awards is EBC’s most significant event of the year and requires a team effort. Thank you to the members of the awards committee who actively participate in the planning and coordination of the annual awards. From logistics to nomination review, budgeting to sponsorship solicitation, their participation is essential to the success of the APEX Awards.

2026 APEX Awards Committee Chair

Kelly Knee, Vice Chair, Programming, EBC Board of Directors
Executive Director, Ocean Science, Tetra Tech

Committee Members

Jon Abplanalp, Vice President
Resource Options, Inc.

Kathleen M. Brill, University Attorney
Harvard University – Office of the General Counsel

Margaret Byrne, ENV SP, Scientist III
Woodard & Curran

Jessica Englehart, P.E., Senior Environmental Specialist-Remediation
Eversource Energy

Alan Kao, Global Director, ESG Services
Ramboll

Joe McLoughlin, LSP, LEP, Vice President
BETA Group, Inc.

Stacy H. Minihane, PWS, Senior Associate
Beals + Thomas

Jessica Yeager, Principal
Geosyntec Consultants

Past Annual Awards Committee Chairs

  • 2025 – Kelly Knee, Tetra Tech
  • 2023-2024 – Tricia Pinto, Sanborn, Head & Associates, Inc.
  • 2021-2022 – Robert P. Hamilton, Jr., Woods Hole Group
  • 2020 – Catherine Finneran, Eversource Energy
  • 2019 – Francis J. Hoey, Tighe & Bond
  • 2017-2018 – Robert D. Cox, Jr., Bowditch & Dewey, LLP
  • 2016 – Peggy Briggs, Epsilon Associates, Inc.
  • 2013-2015 – Leo Pierre Roy, VHB, Inc.
  • 2012 – Michael J. Scipione, Weston & Sampson
  • 2011 – Doug W. Youngen, Triumvirate Environmental
  • 2010 – Arthur Mabbett, Mabbett & Associates, Inc.
  • 2009 – Doug W. Youngen, Triumvirate Environmental
  • 2007-2008 – Robert D. Cox, Jr., Bowditch & Dewey, LLP
  • 2006 – Ed Ionata, Tetra Tech
  • 2005 – Mary Ryan, Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
  • 2004 – Will Wright, Will Wright Consulting, Inc.
  • 2003 – Joan Gardner, Applied Geographics
  • 2002 – Harlan Doliner, Verrill Dana LLP
  • 2001 – Neal Maxymillian, Maxymillian Technologies