KCI Technologies Develops Resource Management Focus

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May 13, 2008

Hunt Valley, MD

KCI Technologies Inc., a multi-disciplined engineering firm with offices in the Northeast, Southeast and Mid-Atlantic, is reorganizing its Southeast environmental services into a single resource management focus to better serve its clients in the growing environmental market. Vice President Joseph J. Pfeiffer, PWS, will head the new effort, overseeing the management and strategic growth of the firm’s environmental operations in North Carolina, Florida and Georgia, as well as Tennessee and Indiana.

“We are constantly looking for ways to better serve our clients,” said Senior Vice President Darryl J. Kroeze, PE, KCI’s Southeast regional manager. “We think that this discipline-focused effort will help us meet the growing demand for sustainable development, stream restoration, wetland mitigation and banking, and other natural resource services in the Southeastern U.S.”

Assistant Division Chief Michael Ray has been appointed acting North Carolina operations manager in Pfeiffer’s place. He assumes responsibility for the operations and strategic growth of the firm’s Engineering and Survey divisions in the North Carolina market.

Ray has more than 20 years of experience in civil engineering design, infrastructure management, and environmental consulting. Prior to joining KCI in 2006, he served as chief operating officer for Mulkey Engineers and Consultants, and as vice president for business development in the Carolinas region for ARCADIS. With a bachelor’s degree in architecture and a master’s in engineering management, Ray began his career as a civil engineering officer in the U.S. Air Force, focusing on infrastructure program management. Ray has been selected for promotion to colonel in the North Carolina Air National Guard. He has served on active duty twice since September 2001, with tours of duty at the Pentagon and in Iraq.

Pfeiffer joined KCI as an environmental scientist at the firm’s Maryland headquarters in 1988. In 1996 he undertook the development of KCI’s environmental discipline in the North Carolina market. Since then he has expanded the firm’s environmental services, helping to establish offices in Indianapolis and Nashville, and he developed a design/build arm called KCI Environmental Technologies and Construction Inc. Pfeiffer was promoted to vice president and chief environmental scientist in 2001 and subsequently served as North Carolina operations manager. He attended Towson University in Maryland, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in natural science and a master’s in physical geography and environmental planning.

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