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.

2024 APEX Awards Committee Chair

Tricia Pinto, Vice Chair, Programming, EBC Board of Directors
Senior Vice President
Sanborn, Head & Associates, Inc.

Committee Members

Jon Abplanalp, Vice President
Resource Options, Inc.

Kathleen M. Brill, Partner
Foley Hoag, LLP

Margaret Byrne, ENV SP, Scientist III
Woodard & Curran

Angela Cincotta, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer
GZA

Danielle Sylvia Cofelice, P.E., Project Engineer
Golder Associates

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

Edward W. Ionata, Senior Vice President
Tetra Tech

Alan Kao, Global Director, ESG Services
Ramboll

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

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

Mark Tisa, Director
Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife

Jessica Yeager, Principal
Geosyntec Consultants

Past Annual Awards Committee Chairs

  • 2023 – Tricia Pinto, Sanborn, Head & Associates, Inc.
  • 2022 – Robert P. Hamilton, Jr., Woods Hole Group
  • 2021 – Robert P. Hamilton, Jr., Woods Hole Group
  • 2020 – Catherine Finneran, Eversource Energy
  • 2019 – Francis J. Hoey, Tighe & Bond
  • 2018 – Robert D. Cox, Jr., Bowditch & Dewey, LLP
  • 2017 – Robert D. Cox, Jr., Bowditch & Dewey, LLP
  • 2016 – Peggy Briggs, Epsilon Associates, Inc.
  • 2015 – Leo Pierre Roy, VHB, Inc.
  • 2014 – Leo Pierre Roy, VHB, Inc.
  • 2013 – 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
  • 2008 – Robert D. Cox, Jr., Bowditch & Dewey, LLP
  • 2007 – 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