KCI Board Welcomes Three New Directors

January 06, 2012

Sparks, MD

KCI has appointed Senior Vice Presidents Charles A. Phillips Jr., RPLS, and Thomas G. Sprehe, PE, BCEE, to its board of directors to serve as rotating members for a one-year term. Vice President Joel Keels, CCM, joined the board to serve as employee representative for the next two years. Phillips and Sprehe are discipline managers for the firm’s Site and Environmental disciplines, respectively, while Keels is a regional practice leader for construction management.

Phillips joined KCI in 1985 as a lead surveyor in the Laurel office and was later promoted to head of the Baltimore surveys division in 1991, the Laurel office in 1992, and the Baltimore site engineering division in 1994. In 1997, he was appointed head of the site engineering and surveys group and promoted to senior vice president. In 2002, he was named site/buildings/telecommunications market manager for the Mid-Atlantic region, and now serves as site and facilities discipline manager. Phillips currently serves on the board of directors of the National Aquarium in Baltimore and Project PLASE, a non-profit dedicated to providing housing and hope for Baltimore’s most vulnerable homeless population. In addition, he is a member of the Homebuilders Association of Maryland, the Maryland Society of Surveyors, the National Association of Homebuilders, the National Association of Industrial Office Parks, and the Society of American Military Engineers.

Sprehe joined KCI in 1997, assuming the role of vice president and head of the environmental division. In 2002, he was named manager of KCI’s environmental market and promoted to senior vice president. With experience in both the public and private sectors, his expertise is in water and wastewater treatment, solid and hazardous waste management, utility management, renewable energy from wastes, dredged material management, and the application of geographic information systems to public works and environmental management. He has served on a number of statewide task forces relating to drought management, on-site wastewater systems, infrastructure management, and operations training. After earning his bachelor’s degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1980, Sprehe returned for a master’s in civil engineering in 1984. He is a Board Certified Environmental Engineer in two specialties—water and wastewater, and solid waste management—and is an examiner for the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. He currently serves on the advisory board of Johns Hopkins University.

Since joining KCI as a construction manager in 1999, Keels has worked on many of the firm’s projects, including the historic St. Mary’s County Courthouse, the Lexington Park Library and the Delaware Recycling Center, all three of which won project excellence awards from the Construction Management Association of America. He was promoted to operations manager in 2004 and division chief in 2006. Keels received his bachelor’s degree in general engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1986 and his master’s in construction management from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2005. He is a Certified Construction Manager and a member of the Construction Management Association of America.

KCI is an engineering, consulting and construction firm serving clients throughout the U.S. and beyond. With revenues of approximately $124 million in 2010, KCI is ranked 82 on the Engineering News-Record's list of the top 500 engineering firms in the country. Roughly 850 KCI employee owners provide environmental, transportation, telecommunications, construction, facilities, and land development services from more than 20 locations. For more information, visit www.kci.com.

For more information please contact:
George G. Perdikakis, Sr.
georgep@kci.com
410.316.7951