People: Willdan Group Inc (WLDN.W)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
Win Westfall	78	2007	Chairman of the Board
Thomas Brisbin	59	2007	President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Kimberly Gant	46	2010	Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President, Treasurer
Daniel Chow	61	2008	President and Chief Executive Officer of Willdan Engineering
Marc Tipermas	64	2007	President - National Programs
Frank Tripepi	64	2011	Senior Vice President - Business Development
Keith Renken	78	2010	Lead Independent Director
Raymond Holdsworth	69	2009	Independent Director
Douglas McEachern	60	2009	Independent Director
John Toups	87	2007	Independent Director
Moira Conlon			IR Contact Officer

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Biographies

Name	Description
Win Westfall	Mr. Win Westfall serves as Chairman of the Board of Willdan Group Inc. He has served as Chairman of the Board since May 2006, and has been a member of board of directors since 2001. Mr. Westfall was President and Chief Executive Officer from May 2006 to February 2007, Senior Vice President of Corporate Relations from January 2004 to May 2006, and a regional manager in northern California from 1998 through January 2004. Mr. Westfall has over 35 years experience as a line manager for consulting engineering firms, and has served as city engineer for seven California cities. Mr. Westfall received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1962, and an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University in 1980. Mr. Westfall is a fellow of The Society of American Military Engineers and has been active in numerous other professional associations. During 1997, he served as the National President for The American Public Works Association, or APWA, the first private consultant to hold this position. Mr. Westfall has served on and chaired national committees for the American Council of Engineering Companies, and in 2004 was made an Honorary CLOD (past president) of the County Engineers Association of California, the first private consultant to be accorded this honor. He has been a registered civil engineer in California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada and Washington. Mr. Westfall also has served as the trustee of the APWA Education Endowment Fund since 1999 and on the California Transportation Foundation board of directors since 2005.
Thomas Brisbin	Dr. Thomas D. Brisbin, Ph.D., serves as President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Willdan Group Inc., since April 2007. Dr. Brisbin previously was vice president of and consultant for AECOM Technology Corporation, or AECOM, since spring 2004. At AECOM, a company focused on infrastructure, environment and facilities engineering contracts, Dr. Brisbin was responsible for developing the company's environmental business. Prior to joining AECOM, Dr. Brisbin was chief operating officer and executive vice president of Tetra Tech, Inc., or Tetra Tech, a provider of consulting, engineering and technical services, for five years. Prior to that, he was employed by Planning Research Corporation, or PRC, a systems analysis and management consulting company and wholly-owned subsidiary of The Black & Decker Corporation, from 1978 to 1995 and was co-founder and President of PRC Environmental Management, Inc. During his tenure at PRC, he was involved in all aspects of operations, marketing and finance. Before joining PRC, he was a research associate at Argonne National Laboratory. He has also served as an adjunct professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Dr. Brisbin holds a B.S. degree from Northern Illinois University and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology. He also completed Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program in 1988.
Kimberly Gant	Ms. Kimberly D. Gant serves as Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President, Treasurer of Willdan Group Inc. She was appointed Chief Financial Officer in July 2007. From January 2005 to July 2007, Ms. Gant served as vice president of corporate development for AECOM Technology Corporation. At AECOM, Ms. Gant was responsible for due diligence and integration activities for mergers and acquisitions, treasury and capital markets activities and SEC financial reporting compliance. From October 1996 to January 2005, Ms. Gant was employed by Tetra Tech, Inc. At Tetra Tech, she held finance positions of increasing responsibility, including vice president of corporate development and treasury and vice president of corporate planning and reporting, and was responsible for pre-acquisition financial analysis, acquisition due diligence and execution, treasury management, strategic sourcing and international business and financial risk assessment. Prior to joining Tetra Tech, Ms. Gant was employed by Hydro-Search, Inc., an engineering and consulting firm acquired by Tetra Tech in 1994, in various accounting positions. Ms. Gant is a certified public accountant (inactive) and holds a Bachelor of Accountancy (BAC) from the University of Oklahoma.
Daniel Chow	Mr. Daniel Chow serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Willdan Engineering of Willdan Group Inc., since December 2008. Prior to joining Willdan, Mr. Chow was the Vice President of AMEC Earth & Environmental, Inc., a subsidiary of AMEC plc, a global provider of high-value consultancy, engineering and project management services to the energy, power and process industries, from April 2004 to December 2008. Prior to AMEC, Mr. Chow worked at Tetra Tech EM Inc. (formerly PRC Environmental Management, Inc.) for over 20 years and held various senior management positions, including Vice President of US operations. During Mr. Chow's tenure with these firms he was responsible for establishing new offices and developing and implementing management systems firmwide to enhance operations. He also led the pursuit and management of multi-million dollar contracts for government clients that included the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Mr. Chow received his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Tennessee Technological University and his Master's Degree in Environmental Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology. He is a registered professional engineer in the state of Illinois and Guam.
Marc Tipermas	Dr. Marc Tipermas, Ph.D., serves as President - National Programs of Willdan Group Inc., since May 2007. Dr. Tipermas has spent most of his 35-year career in the professional services industry in a variety of senior executive level business development and operations positions. From 1981 to 1998, Dr. Tipermas worked at ICF Kaiser International, a global consulting, engineering, and program management firm with over 6,000 employees, and was named President and Chief Operating Officer in 1997. From January 2002 to May 2006, he was Senior Vice President for Business Development of Dynamac Corporation, an environmental consulting firm. From October 1998 to December 2001 and from May 2006 to May 2007, he worked as an independent business development consultant to several nationwide engineering and consulting firms. From 1977 to 1981 Dr. Tipermas worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and from 1980 to 1981 served as the first Director of EPA's Superfund Policy and Program Management Office. From 1975 to 1977 he was Assistant Professor of Political Science at SUNY/Buffalo. Dr. Tipermas received an S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds Ph.D. and Master's degrees from Harvard University in political science.
Frank Tripepi	Mr. Frank G. Tripepi serves as Senior Vice President - Business Development of Willdan Group Inc., since May 2011. Previously, he served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of subsidiary, Willdan Financial Services, formerly known as MuniFinancial, from June 2002 to May 2011. From October 2008 to December 2009, Mr. Tripepi also served as the interim city manager for the City of La Puente. Prior to joining Willdan Financial Services, Mr. Tripepi served as the city manager of Rosemead, California for approximately 28 years. In April 2004, Mr. Tripepi received an appointment to the Board of Governors of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government. The Rose Institute conducts and publishes research on California government and politics. Mr. Tripepi received his B.A. in Political Science in 1969 from California State University, Fullerton.
Keith Renken	Mr. Keith W. Renken serves as Lead Independent Director of Willdan Group Inc. He joined Board of Directors in September 2006. He is the chairperson of Audit Committee and a member of Compensation and Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions Committees. Mr. Renken retired in 1992 as Senior Partner and Chairman, Executive Committee of Southern California, for the public accounting firm Deloitte & Touche. From 1992 through 2006, he was an adjunct professor (executive in residence) in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He is currently the Managing Partner of Renken Enterprises, a family business providing consulting services to growth companies and real estate operations. Mr. Renken is on the board of directors and audit committees of two other publicly held companies, East West Bancorp, Inc., since 2000, and Limoneira Company, an integrated agribusiness, since 2009, and one investment management company, Whittier Trust Company, since September 2008. He is also on East West Bancorp, Inc.'s compensation committee. Mr. Renken was also a member of the board of directors of 21st Century Insurance Group from 2002 until 2007, and he serves on the boards of directors and/or audit committees of several other private companies and non-profit organizations. Mr. Renken is a Certified Public Accountant in the states of Arizona (inactive) and California (inactive). He received a B.S. in Business Administration in 1957 from the University of Arizona and an M.S. in Business Administration from the University of Arizona in 1959.
Raymond Holdsworth	Mr. Raymond W. Holdsworth serves as an Independent Director of Willdan Group Inc., since 2009. He is a member of Compensation, Nominating and Corporate Governance and Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions Committees. Mr. Holdsworth previously served as Vice Chairman of Corporate Development for AECOM from October 2005 through March 2009, and he continues to work as a consultant for AECOM. Mr. Holdsworth joined AECOM in 1992 and held a number of positions, including President, before being named Vice Chairman in 2005. During his tenure at AECOM, he led a variety of outreach, growth and diversification activities. Mr. Holdsworth began his career at Peat Marwick Mitchell and worked in California's Office of Transportation Planning and Research. He has also held senior management positions with DMJM, an engineering/architectural firm in the transportation and infrastructure industry which is now a operating subsidiary of AECOM, International Technology Corp. and Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas Inc., a company that provides strategic consulting, planning, engineering, and program and construction management services relating to infrastructure. Mr. Holdsworth serves as a director of Sundt Corporation, Inc., a private company that builds projects for public and private clients throughout the United States, and as a Trustee for California State University. Mr. Holdsworth received a B.A. in English in 1964 from Lake Forest College and an M.B.A. in 1969 from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business. He is a former Chairman of the California Chamber of Commerce and a former Vice Chairman of the Civil Engineering Research Foundation/International Institute.
Douglas McEachern	Mr. Douglas James McEachern serves as an Independent Director of Willdan Group Inc., since 2009. He serves as the chairperson of Compensation Committee. He is also a member of Audit Committee. He was an Audit Partner at Deloitte & Touche, LLP, or Deloitte, from August 1985 until May 2009. Mr. McEachern was a staff member and manager at Deloitte's predecessor, Touche Ross & Co., from 1976 to 1983. From 1983 to 1985, he was the Professional Accounting Fellow with the Federal Home Loan Bank Board in Washington D.C. Mr. McEachern is a member of the Board of Directors of Community Bank in Pasadena, California and a member of its Ethics, Finance, Investment and Audit Committees. He is also a member of the Finance Committee of the Methodist Hospital of Arcadia and Arcadia Public Library Foundation. Mr. McEachern is an auditing and accountancy instructor at Claremont McKenna College and he has taught accounting at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona. Additionally, Mr. McEachern is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, or AICPA, the California Society of Certified Public Accountants, or CalCPA, and the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, or NAREIT. Mr. McEachern received a B.S in Business Administration in 1974 from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. in 1976 from the University of Southern California.
John Toups	Mr. John M. Toups serves as an Independent Director of Willdan Group Inc., since April 2007. Mr. Toups serves as chairperson of Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions Committee and he is a member of Audit and Compensation Committees. Mr. Toups served as President and Chief Executive Officer of PRC from 1978 until 1987. Prior to that, Mr. Toups served in various executive positions with PRC. For a short period of time in 1990, he served as interim Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of the National Bank of Washington and Washington Bancorp. Mr. Toups serves as a director of two other public companies: GTSI Corp., a reseller of software and hardware, and NVR, Inc., a homebuilding and mortgage banking company. He is the chairman of the board and the nominating and corporate governance committee for GTSI, and also serves on its compensation committee. He is the chairman of NVR's compensation committee and serves on NVR's corporate governance and executive committees. In addition, Mr. Toups serves as a director of two privately held companies, Dinte Resources, Inc., an executive search firm, and Dewberry & Davis, an engineering services firm, and serves on Dewberry's audit committee. Mr. Toups also served as a director of Halifax Corporation, a publicly held electronic services company, from 1993 until 2010, when Halifax Corporation was acquired and ceased to be a publicly traded company. He also is currently the Chair Emeritus for the Inova Health System Board of Trustees. Mr. Toups received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1949. He is a registered civil engineer in California and Maryland and a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Moira Conlon

Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
Win Westfall	460,919
Thomas Brisbin	402,001
Kimberly Gant	272,286
Daniel Chow	4,581
Marc Tipermas	304,387
Frank Tripepi	263,233
Keith Renken	--
Raymond Holdsworth	--
Douglas McEachern	--
John Toups	--
Moira Conlon	--

As Of 29 Dec 2011

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
Win Westfall	0	0
Thomas Brisbin	0	0
Kimberly Gant	0	0
Daniel Chow	0	0
Marc Tipermas	0	0
Frank Tripepi	0	0
Keith Renken	0	0
Raymond Holdsworth	0	0
Douglas McEachern	0	0
John Toups	0	0
Moira Conlon	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
MCEACHERN DOUGLAS JAMES	2,500	$2.20
BRISBIN THOMAS DONALD	50,000	$2.00
RENKEN KEITH WILLIAM	3,647	$2.08
RENKEN KEITH WILLIAM	2,000	$2.11
RENKEN KEITH WILLIAM	200	$2.11
RENKEN KEITH WILLIAM	1,000	$2.11
MCEACHERN DOUGLAS JAMES	2,000	$2.07
RENKEN KEITH WILLIAM	903	$2.07
HOLDSWORTH RAYMOND W JR	200	$1.79
HOLDSWORTH RAYMOND W JR	1,000	$1.75
HOLDSWORTH RAYMOND W JR	95	$1.86
HOLDSWORTH RAYMOND W JR	1,000	$1.84
HOLDSWORTH RAYMOND W JR	100	$1.80
RENKEN KEITH WILLIAM	350	$1.73
HOLDSWORTH RAYMOND W JR	605	$1.82
HOLDSWORTH RAYMOND W JR	1,800	$1.66
HOLDSWORTH RAYMOND W JR	100	$1.67
HOLDSWORTH RAYMOND W JR	4,914	$1.68
HOLDSWORTH RAYMOND W JR	100	$1.63
HOLDSWORTH RAYMOND W JR	86	$1.65
RENKEN KEITH WILLIAM	8,800	$1.25
RENKEN KEITH WILLIAM	1,200	$1.24
HOLDSWORTH RAYMOND W JR	200	$1.43
HOLDSWORTH RAYMOND W JR	300	$1.45
HOLDSWORTH RAYMOND W JR	200	$1.45

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