At its recent convention in Kansas City, MO, the American Concrete Institute (ACI) elected a new president, vice president and four board members. Sharon L. Wood has been elected to serve as president of the Institute for 2015-2016; Khaled Walid Awad has been elected ACI vice president for a two-year term and Michael J. Schneider is now the Institute’s senior vice president, which is also a two-year term. Additionally, four members have been elected to serve on the ACI Board of Direction, each for three-year terms: JoAnn P. Browning, Cesar A. Constantino, Kimberly Kayler and Roberto Stark. 

Ms. Wood is the dean of the Cockrell School of Engineering and holds the Cockrell Family Chair in Engineering No. 14 at The University of Texas at Austin (UT). Wood has been a member of the faculty at UT since 1996. Khaled Walid Awad is the chairman and founder of ACTS, a leading material and geotechnical consulting firm based in Beirut, Lebanon. New director JoAnn P. Browning was named the dean and David and Jennifer Spencer Distinguished Chair of the University of Texas at San Antonio College of Engineering in August 2014. Cesar A. Constantino is director, business development, for Separation Technologies LLC, a Titan America Business. Kimberly Kayler is president and founder of Constructive Communication, Inc. (CCI), Dublin, OH. Roberto Stark is the president of Stark+Ortiz, S.C., a consulting firm based in Mexico City, which provides structural design services for urban and infrastructure projects throughout Mexico.

Source: An ACI press release. For more information, contact contact Julie Webb at 248-848-3148.