Leadership

Leadership

Our corporate leaders personally oversee the success of the firm and actively engage in mentoring our firm’s future leaders.  They are committed to ensuring the firm’s future growth and sustainability through thoughtful planning, avid transparency, and fiscal responsibility.

Our Board of Directors:

Gary DeJidas, PE, MBA, F.GBA – Chairman and CEO
Anthony Morrocco, PE, PLS, MBA – President
Stephen E. Gould, MS, MBA– President of Power & Energy and Chief Administrative Officer
Karl Palvisak, CPA, MBA– Senior Vice President and CFO
Kevin Leadbetter, PE, MBA– President of Transportation & Infrastructure

Our Executives:

Our people make it work

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  • Peter Sechler, PLA, AICP, MBA

    Vice President & Business Sector Leader, Community Solutions

    Peter Sechler, PLA, AICP, MBA specializes in urban design, campus planning, and landscape design projects in the eastern United States for public, private, and institutional clients. His focus has been to work inclusively—identifying the community...

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  • Donald Bender

    Chief Technology Director, Senior Associate

    Donald Bender specializes in Information Technology (IT) strategy, planning, and direction for engineering and professional services firms. His background includes leadership, strategic direction, business partnerships, and implementation of Global...

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  • Leah Tuscan

    Assistant Vice President, Corporate Communications

    Leah Tuscan is the Senior Director of Corporate Communications at GAI Consultants. With nearly 20 years of experience in integrated marketing communications, she leads the team responsible for developing and executing communication strategies that...

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  • David Bevilacqua

    Vice President & Business Unit Director, Power

    David Bevilacqua specializes in engineering, program and project management, operations management, and power plant and power systems operations and management. As the former Director of Installation and Modification Services Operations at...

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  • Scott Hornsby, PE

    Vice President & Business Sector Leader, Midwest Infrastructure

    Vice President Scott Hornsby, PE has served as designer, project manager, and/or project principal on more than $1 billion of transportation construction projects. An industry advocate with decades of professional experience, Scott is an active...

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  • Anthony Morrocco, PE, PLS, MBA

    President

    President Anthony Morrocco, PE, PLS, MBA joined GAI in 1989 as a Project Manager. Tony established GAI’s Land Development and Survey groups and directed their development for several years, winning significant projects that changed...

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  • Ali Noorollahi, PE

    Senior Transportation Technical Leader

    Ali Noorollahi, PE specializes in the structural analysis and preparation of plans for bridges (reinforced concrete, prestressed concrete, structural steel), as well as the analysis and rating of existing bridges. With more than 3 decades of...

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  • Gregory Nettuno, PE, MBA

    Vice President & Senior Staff Consultant

    Vice President Gregory Nettuno, PE, MBA is GAI’s new Senior Staff Consultant and serves as the Strategic Transportation Leader. Greg’s new position as a key advisor to both clients and GAI leadership for a range of complex transportation...

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  • Abeera Batool, PE, PhD

    Senior Project Engineer

    Abeera Batool specializes in various aspects of geotechnical engineering including site characterization, developing geotechnical design parameters, design of shallow and deep foundations, retaining walls, and support of excavation. Abeera’s...

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  • Gary DeJidas, PE, MBA, F. GBA

    Chairman & CEO

    Gary M. DeJidas, PE, MBA, F. GBA began his engineering career in 1972 with the Pittsburgh office of GAI Consultants, Inc. (GAI). In 1982, the firm selected him to open its first office outside of western Pennsylvania, in Orlando, FL. Starting with...

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  • Aimee Shields, PE, MBA

    Senior Engineering Manager

    Aimee Shields, PE, MBA specializes in civil site design for commercial, municipal, residential, and private projects. Recognized in 2019 as a ENR Southeast Top Young Professional, Aimee’s design work includes grading, drainage, storm sewer...

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  • Kathy Leo, PE

    Vice President & Business Sector Leader, Community Infrastructure

    With more than 25 years of experience,  Kathy Leo, PE is well versed in a wide range of traditional, design-build, and integrated project delivery contracting methods. Prior to joining GAI, Kathy led national divisions for commercial, hospitality,...

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  • Kent Cockley, PE

    Vice President & Business Sector Leader, Power Generation

    Vice President Kent Cockley, PE has served GAI’s energy clients for more than 20 years. He specializes in environmental engineering, coal combustion residual landfill and impoundment siting, design, permitting, closure, post-closure monitoring...

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  • Nick Mousa, AICP

    Assistant Vice President & Director of Civil Engineering, Community Infrastructure

    Assistant Vice President Nick Mousa serves as GAI’s Director of Civil Engineering for Community Infrastructure and Jacksonville Office Leader. His career experience includes representing clients in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors....

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  • Jennifer Broush

    Director, Energy and Environmental Services

    Jennifer Broush specializes in the management and coordination of environmental regulatory permits and approvals and data management. She is the project manager of several energy and environmental projects where she works with staff from disciplines...

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  • Andre Sutherland, PE

    Business Sector Leader, FL CEI Services

    Andre has extensive construction and management experience in the Construction Engineering and Inspection (CEI) field. He has participated in a broad range of field operations and situations over the course of his career, working on several major...

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  • Arica DiTullio, PE, MS

    Senior Engineering Manager/Senior Associate

    Arica DiTullio leverages nearly 2 decades of experience to provide GAI clients cost-effective and innovative solutions for a range of civil and environmental engineering initiatives including abandoned mine land reclamation (AML), industrial...

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  • George Reese, CE

    Vice President & Business Sector Leader, Power Delivery Environmental

    George Reese, CE specializes in environmental impact analysis and National Environmental Policy Act documentation, permitting, siting studies, and vertebrate ecology. His ecological specializations are in the areas of population, community, and...

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  • Frank Bellomo, PLA

    Vice President & Senior Director, Landscape Architecture

    For over 40 years, Frank Bellomo, PLA has been creating hundreds of projects that earned national and state awards as well as recognition by his peers. His career centers on projects that positively impact communities including urban planning, park...

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  • Enrique Bazán-Arias, PE, EMBA

    Renewables Client Services Manager

    Enrique Bazán-Arias, PE, EMBA specializes in civil engineering including civil and structural design, seismic certification, site characterization, forensic analysis, power generation facilities, transportation systems, foundations and slope...

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  • Stephen Gould, MS, MBA

    President of Power & Energy / Chief Administrative Officer

    Board of Directors member Stephen Gould, MS, MBA is GAI’s Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) and President of GAI’s Power & Energy business unit. Over the course of a 30-year tenure, Stephen’s supportive leadership approach and his...

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  • Benjamin Allis, PE

    Structures Business Sector Leader, Transportation

    Benjamin Allis, PE specializes in the design, analysis, construction engineering, and project management of structural transportation projects for both new and rehabilitation structures. Ben has provided services for an array of transportation...

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  • Kevin Leadbetter, PE, MBA

    President of Transportation & Infrastructure

    GAI Board of Directors member Kevin Leadbetter, PE, MBA is President of GAI’s Transportation & Infrastructure business unit. Kevin joined GAI in 2005, and draws on decades of experience in project management/construction engineering, including...

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