Who We Are

Bryan Carruthers
Chief Executive Officer

Bryan is a collaborative leader passionate about creating and growing organizations through developing a robust culture that attracts, supports and nurtures industry leading talent. His career has been focused on providing owners representation, project, program and construction management services and developing project management and project controls software.

Gary Cooley
Chief Financial Officer + Chief Corporate Development Officer

Gary is a leader in the A/E industry, driving growth through strategic organic and M&A initiatives and driving efficiency through disciplined financial and operational management. He is committed to driving organizations to their highest potential of operational excellence. He is passionate about building and being the best!

Melanie Estes
Chief Delivery Officer,
Management

Melanie has worked at every level in Construction/Program Management over her 3 decades-long career. It’s through that experience that she understands the best practices for building strong teams, serving clients well, and delivering great projects. She has a passion for solving problems and driving positive results both for clients and employees.

Adam Shaw
Chief Delivery Officer,
Advisory & Compliance

Adam has built a diverse career in advisory through various countries, sectors and end services. Building from his core competency of project management, Adam’s career has been defined by delivering projects that others thought impossible. From hospitals to highways and courthouses to convention centers, Adam has shaped over $12 billion dollars of projects for a mix of both the public and private sector clients.

Leigh Valudes
Chief Innovation Officer

As Chief Innovation Officer. Leigh will advance Anser Advisory’s innovation and delivery platforms to build on current services as well as offer company-unique intellectual property to solve industry and market challenges. In his prior role of VP for Solutions, Leigh was devoted to identifying and delivering the best possible services and products to our customers. His passion for continuous improvement and building new solutions stems from his 20+ year career performing advisory and program management consulting services for billion dollar programs with DoD, DHS, and the Intelligence Community and their extensive mission-driven challenges.

Desmond Bell
Chief Delivery Officer, Utilities

Desmond is an executive with a record of driving growth, efficiency, and financial performance in operationally intensive businesses, ranging from public utilities to privately-held professional engineering companies. He has fostered and led significant enterprise transformations and managed major programs and enterprise risk. Notable accomplishments include leading the development of an electric utility national transportation electrification strategy with the White House and other federal agencies; and leading one of the largest environmental remediation efforts in U.S. history.

Maegen Ayala
Co-Lead, Aviation

Maegen has dedicated over 20 years to the Aviation industry, providing a broad range of services, including organizational readiness, planning, design and management consulting. Building from her foundational expertise in airport planning and design, Maegen delivers executive and project-level advisory services to our airport clients nationwide in support of their capital programs.

Dan Malloy
Co-Lead, Aviation

Dan brings over 30 years of experience delivering large capital development programs at national and international airports. His direct experience spans organizational development, planning, engineering, environmental compliance, program and construction management, and owner-side senior-level aviation/airport management.

Rob Brancheau
Co-Lead, Aviation

Rob leverages over 35 years of engineering experience with his primary focus in airport development in the areas of capital program formulation, planning, design, and construction management. During his 25-year tenure at GOAA, Rob provided vast experience in the respective areas of airport management and operations, and how to manage and contract for large programs within a transparent framework of checks and balances.

Adam Tobin
Leader, Clean Mobility, Energy & Sustainability (CMES)

Adam is a goal-driven and performance-focused professional with broad-based advisory, project, and construction management experience within the buildings, renewable energy, and clean mobility market sectors. Adam is experienced at analyzing client and project requirements and has a track record of delivering timely project completions. Adam is effective at building positive relationships and strategic alliances with partners of all business levels. 

Andy Kleimola
Leader, Estimating

Andy has over 30 years of experience providing estimating and preconstruction services in various market sectors from both the contractor and consultant aspects. He focuses on providing clients with accurate and reliable cost data to make well-informed decisions for a successful program or project. He takes pride in his team’s ability to be accurate, timely, and collaborative on each assignment. Every successful construction project starts with a GREAT estimate!

Bill McKenna
Leader, Growth Sectors

Bill McKenna has over 25 years of experience providing expert program and project management services to clients in many sectors, from transportation agencies to cultural and higher education institutions. Bill’s experience in a wide range of business sectors gives him a valuable perspective to help clients achieve success.

Robert Sheets
Leader, Government Services

Known as a man who gets things done, Robert Sheets has spent a professional lifetime helping advance the goals of local governments. His relationships with local, regional, and state governments, as well as the Department of Defense have been instrumental in establishing public-private partnerships with a triple bottom line: good for the community, good for business, and good for the environment.

Mark Atkinson
Leader, Program Management + Advisory

Mark has a long history of leading solutions as an owner and for clients by delivering effective programs and projects. Skilled at successfully delivering large-scale programs across multiple sectors – work to date has included: healthcare, research; higher education; culture; P3; financial services, utilities, public services; transit; and sports.

Guenther Preuhs
Executive Vice President

Guenther is an industry leader in program and project controls. He has developed best practices in delivering analytics and controls, delivering high strategic value to program and project teams. In each program, he ensures streamlined communication and promotes proactive team relationship development, fostering proper information dissemination that effectively influences risk management and well-informed decision-making at every critical juncture.

Corey Burbach
Leader, Strategy, Grants & Compliance (SGC)

Corey is a results-oriented financial and program management professional with experience specializing in capital planning, management and funding. His deep experience in the public sector advisory offers him the ability to help units of state and local government plan and execute their financing and capital programming needs.

Craig Halvorson
EVP, PM/CM West Region

Craig has an extensive history of management and leadership in the Construction/Engineering industry. He has expertise in Construction Management, Project Management, Project Controls, and Claims Avoidance on large public works projects. He has worked on multi-billion-dollar programs in the Aviation, Transportation, Ports, Municipal, Rail, and Water/Wastewater market sectors. Craig is known for building formidable teams that have successfully won and delivered mega projects.

Tom Merritt
EVP, PM/CM North Central Region

Building on almost four decades of experience in both public and private sectors, Tom brings great insight to all the markets Anser serves. He is recognized as a thought leader and expert in public policy implementation, consensus-building, and strategic planning. Tom is passionate about creating a culture that attracts, supports, and nurtures the industry’s leading talent and is focused on developing a diverse team of customer-focused construction professionals by implementing training programs to help all employees, especially those just entering the workforce, understand their role in the organization both now and in the future.

Dan Connelly
SVP, PM/CM Mid Atlantic Region

Dan is a results-oriented leader, driven to establish strategic, mutually beneficial partnerships and relationships with clients. Adept at creating strategic alliances with organization leaders to effectively align with and support key business initiatives, Dan excels at building and retaining high-performance teams by hiring, developing, and motivating skilled professionals. His expertise is in overall program management, risk management, planning, budgeting, and scheduling. Dan pays great attention to every client’s needs while prioritizing and translating provided inputs into a comprehensive program plan that carefully outlines all risks to be considered for final decision making

Tom O’ Neil
SVP, PM/CM Northeastern Region

A skilled leader and manager with 36 years of experience in the AEC industry, Tom has successfully delivered projects across public and private sectors in the academic, housing, and government markets. From project planning and team assembly to contracts and procurement, to project execution and closeout, Tom is a valued partner with all his stakeholders.

Kristen Braden
SVP, North Central

With a unique background as a professional engineer and an attorney, Kristen brings more than 20 years of experience managing projects in both the public and private markets. She is focused on growing Anser’s water/wastewater portfolio by providing excellent customer service and assembling and developing the top talent in our industry.

Hollie Gregory
Executive Vice President, Management Strategic Growth

Hollie is a driven, conscientious, and collaborative marketing and communications leader who gets people excited about new ideas. 20 years of experience paired with her loyal and empathetic leadership style helps her quickly earn and maintain trust with teams and clients, lead partnerships that add millions of dollars in revenue and find win-win outcomes to any situation. Hollie leads a team at the forefront of helping the Anser Advisory Management (PM/CM) Business Line enhance existing client relationships and develop strategies to reach new clients.

Roger Miramontes
SVP, Transportation Market Lead (West)

Mr. Miramontes has more than 24 years of progressive experience, including more than 12 years with Caltrans where he spent 10 years leading diverse and challenging projects. As a Caltrans certified resident engineer, he understands how to effectively allocate and manage resources for task order assignments to provide quality deliverables with maximum efficiency. Mr. Miramontes has extensive experience complying with Caltrans policies, procedures, manuals, and guidelines. Additionally, he has served on more than $600 million (total projects) in heavy civil projects including design, design management, and construction management for highway, roadway, bridge, and transit facility projects.

Sunil Mallaiah
SVP, Buildings and Facilities Market Lead (West)

Sunil is a civil engineer and a Certified Construction Manager with close to 30 years of construction experience in design, engineering, and construction management. Sunil having been a previous owner for one of the largest school districts in the nation understands the challenges faced while implementing capital programs and consequently has implemented successful innovative measures based on institutional knowledge and lesson learned. Sunil has extensive construction and management experience in educational, transit (Port and Metro), airport and private sector facilities.

Tyson Atwood
SVP / Managing Director, West Municipal

For more than 20 years Tyson has worked in the construction industry managing increasingly complex projects. He has a diverse background managing projects in the aviation, energy, municipal, transportation, and water/wastewater industries. He has vast experience in Active Transportation Program construction and has an impeccable audit record with management of funds. Tyson has also worked on several innovative projects which have advanced the use of technology and automated workflows to increase team efficiencies.

Shasta Culp
SVP, Utilities West

Shasta has 20 years of leadership experience in the Energy industry. She has provided management consulting and advisory services for various complex programs, projects, and initiatives with experience in the industry’s utility and support services. She has managed internal and external teams, leading strategic projects and operational change related to advanced technology, renewables, grid modernization, and regulatory policy.

Ali Sarhangian
EVP, Utilities West

Ali is a recognized industry leader with a proven track record of delivering growth and profitability through creative strategy, team building, and a strong focus on operations. He has had a diverse career focused on the utility industry, starting in construction and moving into consulting later in his career. Ali’s primary areas of focus are construction management, program/ project management, and business transformation initiatives.

Michael LaFata
EVP, Utilities East

Mike has driven considerable growth in the utility program, project, and construction management services markets. Under his leadership, Anser’s Utility East practice has grown to a 250-person gas & electric utility consulting group. In addition to his 30 years of transmission, substation, and distribution experience supporting Exelon, he has also worked within the nuclear industry covering construction, testing, and commissioning as well as refueling outage support, modification projects, and maintenance activities at multiple generating stations.

Stephen Goad
SVP, Utilities East Baltimore Operations

Steve leads operations and development in Anser's Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia regions. With strong leadership skills and an incredible breadth and depth of electric utility experience, he is a well-rounded program and project manager, engineer, and public relations expert. He previously served as the Director of the Transmission and Substation Department with Baltimore Gas & Electric.

Edward Veneziale
SVP, Utilities East Philadelphia Operations

Ed leads Anser’s Philadelphia Operations with a focus on strengthening client relationships and growing our service delivery platform. He is a high performing and results-focused leader with more than 30 years of experience in project & construction management, long range / business planning, P&L management, engineering, and strategic leadership. He previously served in multiple leadership positions with PECO and Exelon Generation including serving as the Director of Project Management and the Key Manager of Investment Strategy.

Shipra Sharma
SVP, Utilities East Washington DC Operations

Shipra oversees Anser's client services and utility market growth in the Delaware, New Jersey, and Washington, DC region. She is a proven utility industry leader with deep experience in engineering, project management, distribution automation, and advanced metering infrastructures. In addition, she is knowledgeable in the areas of environmental compliance, remediation, and the management of environmental liabilities.

Albert Alford
SVP, Utilities East Maryland Operations

Before joining Anser Advisory, Al had a forty year career at Baltimore Gas & Electric Company where he held leadership & engineering positions in both technical and project/program management, transmission, substation and distribution engineering, and environmental and chemical engineering. With extensive experience in project planning & scope development, risk management, design and engineering processes, team development, procurement & contracting strategies, and financial management, Al is a positive team builder with proven leadership skills, mentoring, coaching, and developing employees and peers.