ENR East Names 2025 Top Young Professionals
The format for the 2025 class of Top Young Professionals in ENR's regions is going to be a little different next year. That's because ENR is overhauling its regions, consolidating them starting in 2025.
As the construction industry continues to evolve, the audience for ENR's Regional Editions has also shifted, with firms often working within broader geographic footprints and crossing over to work in neighboring regions. With that in mind, ENR's Regional Editions, newsletters and website content are evolving as well, and will be arranged as follows:
New York, New England and MidAtlantic will be merged to form ENR East.
Texas/Louisiana and Southeast will become ENR Texas and Southeast.
The ENR Midwest region will remain, expanding with the addition of North and South Dakota.
Also, the Mountain States and Southwest will join forces under the existing umbrella ENR Mountain States.
California and Northwest will be merged to form the ENR West region, adding Nevada, which was previously in the Southwest region.
Much will remain the same, though, with each of the newly re-formed regions continuing to publish six bi-monthly print and digital magazines, a twice monthly newsletter and regional-specific digital content posted daily to the new regional websites within ENR.com.
In addition, ENR's successful Best Projects competition/events and top firm rankings will continue to provide your firm with the same level of opportunity to showcase your firm's outstanding work.
So the following Top Young Professionals honorees make up the first class for the new ENR East Region, covering Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, the District of Columbia, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine.
It was a crowded field, with judges evaluating 130 entries to choose the top 20 professionals in the region under the age of 40. Judges did not score applications from individuals working at the same firm or with which they had any conflicts of interest.
Each awardee will be featured in the first edition of ENR East on Feb. 3 2025, detailing their successes and careers so far.
This year's judges, were: Stuart Meurer, president and chief executive at Windover Construction Inc.; Lili Liang, deputy director at Maryland Dept. of Transportation State Highway Administration; Amar Maniar, principal/senior engineering operations manager at STV; André Barbour, diversity and inclusion director at NEI General Contracting; Brian Derr, section head of special projects at Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson and Ioanna Magiati, partner at AO Architects.
And our 2025 ENR East Top Young Professionals are listed below in alphabetical order. Congratulations to the winners!
Anita Alexander, Deputy Environmental and Licensing Engineering Group Supervisor at Bechtel Corporation, Reston, Va.
Lauren Alger, Director of Sustainable Design at STV, New York City
Samira Ayati, CEO and President at IVY Engineering Group, New York City
Candace Barfield, Senior Director at FTI Consulting, New York City
Steven Burke, Senior Director, Sustainability at Suffolk, Boston
Matthew Calvey, Architect at AECOM, Boston
Anthony Gaglio, Jr., Vice President at Viking Construction, Bridgeport, Conn.
Amanda Haven, Owner and Chief Executive at Illuminate Marketing Collective, Oakton, Va.
Qianyu Hu, Assistant District Engineer (Division Chief) at Maryland Dept. of Transportation, Greenbelt, Md.
Adam Jeffery, Project Manager, MLJ Contracting Corp., Great Neck, N.Y.
David Kaminski, Vice President & General Manager, Turner Construction Co., Philadelphia
Aneesh Karlekar, Director at AECOM, New York City
Robert B. Lane, Founder & Chief Executive at Endeavor Fire Protection Holdings LLC, Boston
Jennifer Mahan, Associate at Thornton Tomasetti, New York City
Sami Majumder, Assistant Vice President - Transit & Rail at WSP USA, District of Columbia
Charles (Wesley) Southall, Dept. Manager at Burns & McDonnell, Roanoke, Va.
Irmak Turan, Vice President, Thornton Tomasetti, Boston
Shelley Wynne, Deputy Dept. Manager at Dewberry, Fairfax, Va.
Matthew D. Zettwoch, Vice President & Program Executive, MTA Construction & Development at Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), New York City
Erik Zuker, Senior Project Engineer, Firmwide Bridge Technology Lead at HNTB Corp., New York City
