Hill International inc
Officers & Directors
DAVID L. RICHTER has been our President and Chief Executive Officer since December
2014. Prior to his current position, he was our President and Chief Operating
Officer from March 2004 to December 2014, and he has been a member of our Board
of Directors since 1998. Before that, Mr. Richter was President of our Project
Management Group from 2001 to 2004, Senior Vice President and General Counsel
from 1999 to 2001 and Vice President and General Counsel from 1995 to 1999. Prior
to joining us, he was an attorney with the New York City law firm of Weil, Gotshal
& Manges LLP from 1992 to 1995. Mr. Richter is a Fellow of the Construction
Management Association of America (CMAA) and a member of the World Presidents’
Organization, the Construction Industry Round Table and the American Society of
Civil Engineers. He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Southern
New Jersey Development Council and the Board of Directors of the CMAA. Mr. Richter
earned his B.S. in management, his B.S.E. in civil engineering and his J.D. from
the University of Pennsylvania, and he is currently pursuing his M.Sc. in major
program management from the University of Oxford. Mr. Richter is a son of Irvin
E. Richter.
RAOUF S. GHALI has been our Chief Operating Officer since January 2015. Prior
to that, he was President of our Project Management Group (International) from
January 2005 to January 2015, Senior Vice President in charge of project management
operations in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East from 2001 to 2004, and
Vice President from 1993 to 2001. Prior to joining us, he worked for Walt Disney
Imagineering from 1988 to 1993. Mr. Ghali earned both a B.S. in business administration
and economics and an M.S. in business organizational management from the University
of LaVerne.
THOMAS J. SPEARING III has been Regional President (Americas) of our Project Management
Group since January 2015. Prior to that, he was President of our Project Management
Group (Americas) from April 2009 to January 2015 and Senior Vice President and
Chief Strategy Officer from September 2007 to March 2009. Prior to joining Hill,
Mr. Spearing worked for more than ten years with STV Group, Inc., most recently
as Principal-in-Charge of its western region. Before that, Mr. Spearing was a
Vice President of business development with Hill. Mr. Spearing earned his B.B.A.
in computer and information science from Temple University, his B.S. in construction
management and his B.S. in civil engineering from Spring Garden College, and his
M.S. in management from Rosemont College. He is founding co-chair of Pennsylvanians
for Transportation Solutions (Pen Trans), is a Women’s Transportation Seminar
member, a member of the Legacy Foundation and Co-Chair of the Transit Builders’
Trust. In addition, he has served in various leadership roles with the American
Public Transit Association, including serving as chair, vice chair and secretary
of its Capital Projects Subcommittee. Mr. Spearing also is active in the Southern
New Jersey Development Council, the AEC Business Builders Forum, and the CMAA,
among others.
MOHAMMED AL RAIS has been Regional President (Middle East) with Hill’s Project
Management Group since January 2015. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President
and Managing Director (Middle East) of our Project Management Group from April
2010 to January 2015 and Vice President from 2006 to 2010. Mr. Al Rais has over
38 years of experience in the management of construction projects throughout the
Middle East, North Africa, the United Kingdom and Canada. He earned his B.Sc.
in city and regional planning from the University of Engineering and Technology
in Pakistan and his M.Sc. in project management from the University of Reading
in the United Kingdom. Mr. Al Rais is a member of the Association for Project
Management in the U.K., the Canadian Business Council, the Society of Engineers
in the U.A.E., the Chartered Management Institute and the Chartered Institute
of Building.
FREDERIC Z. SAMELIAN has been President of our Construction Claims Group since
January 2005. He was a Senior Vice President with us from 2003 to 2004. Before
that, Mr. Samelian was President of Conex International, Inc., a construction
dispute resolution firm, from 2002 to 2003 and from 2000 to 2001, an Executive
Director with Greyhawk North America, Inc., a construction management and consulting
firm, from 2001 to 2002, and a Director with from 1998
to 2000. Before that, he had worked with Hill from 1983 to August 1998. He served
as Hill’s President and Chief Operating Officer from 1996 to 1998. Mr. Samelian
has a B.A. in international affairs from George Washington University and an M.B.A.
from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. He is a Project Management
Professional certified by the Project Management Institute and he is a licensed
General Building Contractor in California and Nevada. Mr. Samelian is also a Member
of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and is a CIArb Accredited Mediator.
Mr. Samelian is also a licensed real estate salesperson in Nevada.
JOHN FANELLI III has been our Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
since September 2006. Before that, Mr. Fanelli was Vice President and Chief Accounting
Officer of CDI Corp. from 2005 to 2006, and he was Vice President and Corporate
Controller of CDI Corporation (a subsidiary of CDI Corp.) from 2003 to 2006. CDI
Corp. is a New York Stock Exchange-traded professional services and outsourcing
firm based in Philadelphia with expertise in engineering, technical services and
information technology. During 2003, Mr. Fanelli was a financial consultant to
Berwind Corporation, an investment management company based in Philadelphia which
owns a diversified portfolio of manufacturing and service businesses and real
estate. Before that, Mr. Fanelli was employed for 18 years by Hunt Corporation,
then a New York Stock Exchange-traded manufacturer and marketer of office products.
At Hunt, he served as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer from 1995 until
2003, and before that as Director of Budgeting, Financial Analysis and Control,
from 1985 to 1995. Before that, Mr. Fanelli was employed with Coopers & Lybrand
for eight years in various accounting and auditing positions. Mr. Fanelli earned
his B.S. in accounting from LaSalle University and he is a Certified Public Accountant
in Pennsylvania.
RONALD F. EMMA has been our Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
since January 2007. Mr. Emma had been Senior Vice President of Finance from 1999
to 2007. Before that, he was Vice President of Finance. Mr. Emma has been with
Hill since 1980. Before joining Hill, he was Assistant Controller of General Energy
Resources, Inc., a mechanical contracting firm, and prior to that was a Staff
Accountant with the accounting firm of Haskins & Sells. Mr. Emma has a B.S.
in accounting from St. Joseph’s University and he is a Certified Public
Accountant in New Jersey.
WILLIAM H. DENGLER, JR. has been our Senior Vice President and General Counsel
since March 2007. Mr. Dengler was previously Vice President and General Counsel
from 2002 to 2007, and Corporate Counsel from 2001 to 2002. Mr. Dengler also serves
as corporate secretary to Hill and its subsidiaries. Prior to joining Hill, Mr.
Dengler served as Assistant Counsel to former New Jersey Governors Donald DiFrancesco
and Christine Todd Whitman from 1999 to 2001. Mr. Dengler earned his B.A. in political
science from Western Maryland College and his J.D. from Rutgers University School
of Law at Camden. He is licensed to practice law in New Jersey, as well as before
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.
CATHERINE H. EMMA has been our Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative
Officer since January 2007. Ms. Emma had been Vice President and Chief Administrative
Officer from 2005 to 2007. Before that, she served as Vice President of Human
Resources and Administration. Ms. Emma has been with Hill since 1982. She is certified
by the Society for Human Resource Management as a Professional in Human Resources
(PHR) and holds professional memberships with Tri-State Human Resources and the
Society for Human Resource Management. Ms. Emma previously participated in BNA’s
Human Resources Personnel Policies Forum. Ms. Emma is the wife of Ronald F. Emma.
MICHAEL J. PETRISKO has been our Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
since June 2014. Prior to that, Mr. Petrisko was Vice President and Chief Information
Officer for STV Group, an architecture, engineering and construction management
firm, from June 2012 through June 2014. Before that, Mr. Petrisko was Hill’s
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer from January 2009 through
June 2012, and Vice President and Chief Information Officer from 2007 to 2008.
Before that, Mr. Petrisko was Director of Global IT Operations for AECOM Technology
Corp. from 2005 to 2007 and Vice President and Chief Information Officer for DMJM
Harris, Inc., a subsidiary of AECOM Technology Corp., a global architecture, engineering
and construction management firm, from 2002 to 2005. From 1999 to 2002, he was
Director of Technical Services for Foster Wheeler Corp., an engineering and construction
services firm. Mr. Petrisko studied management information technology at Thomas
Edison State College and he is a member of the New Jersey Society of Information
Management and a member of the CMAA.
Hill International inc currently has 4558 employees.
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