FRIDAY, APRIL 25th

KP Reddy
Founder & CEO Shadow Ventures
KP is the Founder and CEO of Atlanta-based, Shadow Ventures and a prominent figure in the world of technology and innovation. With a background in Civil Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, KP has become a global authority in AEC environments, AI, robotics, automation, mobile applications, and cloud computing. He is the author of the definitive guide to Building Information Modeling, “BIM for Building Owners and Developers,” “What You Know About Startups Is Wrong,” and his soon-to-be-released “Creating the Intangible Enterprise: The critical skills to thrive in an AI-driven world.”
KP’s extensive experience includes founding and exiting three technology companies to NASDAQ, NYSE, and privately held futures, running Enterprise Transformation at Gehry Technologies, and being the General Manager of ATDC at Georgia Tech, one of the oldest technology incubators in the country.
KP is a personal advisor to the CEOs of a number of the largest architecture, engineering, and construction firms in the country and regularly partners with the likes of Mick Morrissey of Morrissey Goodale and Michael Beckerman of CREtech.
A few major events where KP has appeared on stage are Autodesk University, SXSW, TechCrunch Disrupt, NYC Building Congress, Foreign Direct Investment World Forum, BuiltWorlds, Blueprint, and CREtech.
He’s a frequent lecturer at universities including NYU’s Stern School of Business, Georgia Tech, Columbia University, and Harvard GSD, and he’s been featured on Fox News, NBC, BisNow, The Real Deal, the Commercial Observer, and in the Wall Street Journal.

June R. Jewell, CPA
AEC Business Solutions
June is a leading profitability expert in the Architecture and Engineering industry and author of two best-selling books, Find the Lost Dollars and RAISE Your Value. For over 25 years she ran a successful business and Deltek consulting practice, and now works with A&E firm leaders to increase profitability, improve business management processes and systems, and be more competitive in the marketplace.
June is President of AEC Business Solutions, offering business assessment tools, business management training programs, and strategic planning designed to help A&E firms to grow profitably and groom their project managers and future leaders for business success. You can learn more about June and her company at www.AECBusiness.com

Michaela Brewster, CPG
Principal, Terracon
Michaela T. Brewster, CPG is a Principal at Terracon with 20 years of environmental consulting and engineering experience. Michaela holds a Master of Engineering in Geotechnics from Missouri University of Science & Technology and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Physical Science and Geology from Black Hills State University/South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
Today, Michaela serves as the Environmental Department Manager for Terracon’s Nebraska region, where she leads teams to deliver high-quality environmental projects for clients across multiple sectors. Michaela’s environmental expertise includes due diligence, subsurface investigation and remediation projects for various state-lead and voluntary cleanup programs as well as EPA Superfund and RCRA programs with extensive knowledge in assessment and clean-up of agricultural chemicals.
Michaela is actively involved in her company, community and profession, serving as the lead for Terracon’s employee resource group – Increasing Women in Leadership (iWIL), volunteering for the ACE Mentoring Program and active in GBA as a member of the Environmental Committee and a recent GBA Emerging Leaders graduate.

Chuck A. Gregory, P.E., F.GBA
Senior Principal – Terracon
Chuck Gregory, P.E., F.GBA, a 29-year veteran of Terracon Consultants, Inc., is a senior principal in the firm also serving as vice president and regional manager overseeing offices in San Antonio, Laredo, Pharr, and Corpus Christi. Chuck has 40 years of experience as a consulting engineer with expertise in geotechnical engineering, construction materials engineering and testing, and forensic engineering. His areas of technical expertise include soil stabilization, pavement design, pavement failure analysis, and concrete technology. Along with report review and project management, other responsibilities include troubleshooting, mentoring, client development, staffing, planning, and budgeting. Chuck holds Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in civil engineering from Texas A&M University (Class of 1981) and has been a licensed Professional Engineer in Texas since 1987. Chuck has a long history of service and involvement in Geoprofessional Business Association (GBA). He has been a board member since 2015 and is currently the Chair of the Resource and Collaboration Committee. For his outstanding achievements and dedicated services to the engineering profession, Chuck was awarded Distinguished Engineer of the Foundation for the Texas Engineering Foundation in 2022, awarded 2015 TSPE Bexar Chapter Engineer of the Year, and received the Lifetime Service Award from the San Antonio Chapter of the American Concrete Institute in 2013.

Bryce W. Moore
Director of Construction Services – Blackburn Consulting
Bryce started with Blackburn Consulting in 2006 as a materials testing/inspection technician. He now leads Blackburn’s Construction Services. Bryce’s 18-plus years of experience includes: construction and project management, inspection, and materials testing for city and county roadways, public works infrastructure, levees, Caltrans roadways and bridges, subdivisions, water/wastewater, schools, and pipeline projects. He is Caltrans, ICC, and ACI certified.
Bryce graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA with a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture Business and a certificate in Construction Management from U.C. Davis. Bryce also completed the Fundamentals of Professional Practice course.

Tiffany Vorhies, NACE CIP-2, PMP
Vice President and Director of Project Management – SME
Tiffany Vorhies, NACE, CIP-2, PMP is a Vice President and the Director of Project Management. She leads the charge in developing and training all of SME’s Project Managers and Assistant Project Managers to elevate their skills and capabilities and ensure SME continues to provide best in class service to our clients.
Tiffany Vorhies holds a BS degree in Construction Management from Eastern Michigan University, and is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP). She has been with SME for 18 years and spent much of that time building our Steel, Coatings, and Nondestructive Testing (SCN) service group from the ground up. Before this, she worked in design and quality control for a truss manufacturer for nearly eight years.
She has served in several leadership positions for NACE Detroit and is known as a local expert in coatings. Tiffany is also active in the Geoprofessional Business Association (GBA) and is Chair of their Multimedia Delivery Committee.
In her free time, Tiffany enjoys woodworking and podcasting. Check out the GBA Podcast for some industry-related episodes, where she hosts and shares lessons learned with others.
Legal Panelist- TBD

Dori Ross, P.E.
Senior Vice President of Client Services – Sanborn, Head & Associates.
Dori is the Senior Vice President of Client Services at Bedford, NH-based Sanborn, Head & Associates. Dori works closely with firm leadership and project teams from across the firm to ensure Sanborn Head delivers the highest levels of service and quality to our clients. As a member of Sanborn Head’s Executive Committee, Dori acts as the primary liaison between Sanborn Head’s client service areas, the executive team, and functional area leaders across the firm.
Dori draws on her background as an accomplished geotechnical engineer and proven business leader to guide Sanborn Head’s performance and help the firm achieve its corporate and strategic objectives. She focuses on improving operations, creating annual business plans and longer-term strategic plans, and mentoring and developing the firm’s technical staff.
Dori has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Connecticut. She is an active member of GBA’s Business Practices Committee. She also serves on the board of directors of ACEC Massachusetts where she most recently served as Secretary and co-chaired the ACEC/MA’s Transportation Agencies Liaison Committee (TALC) for many years. Dori is a professional engineer in Massachusetts.

Jeff Gross
Owner/CEO – Gro-Nova
Jeff Gross is the owner of Gro-Nova Inc and author of Ten Tips to Empowerment Leadership, The POWER of PEOPLE FIRST, Ten Tips to Employee Retention, Creating a Stay Culture, and Next Gen Revolution, Multigenerational Leadership. Jeff is passionate about empowering teams through the empowerment leadership training he offers. He has over 20 years coaching, leading, and building high-performance teams. Jeff’s executive leadership experience includes working for small-to-large organizations including Fortune 500 companies. He has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and Bachelor of Science in Engineering. He lives in Seattle Washington.

Guoming Lin, Ph.D.
Dr. Guoming Lin is a vice president and senior geotechnical consultant with Terracon Consultants in Savannah, Georgia. He has 30+ years of experience and provided geotechnical consulting to thousands of projects including Georgia Ports, Kinder Morgan Elba Island LNG Terminal, and Hyundai EV plant near Savannah. He is a licensed Geotechnical Engineer (G.E.) in California and a Professional Engineer (P.E.) in several states. He is a board-certified geotechnical engineer (BC.GE) by the Academy of Geoprofessionals (AGP). He has authored over 20 technical papers, and was the principal engineer for one Grand Award (2006) and four State Awards (1997, 1999, 2018, 2025) in the ACEC/GA Engineering Excellence Award.
SATURDAY, APRIL 26th – SPEAKER BIOS

Lee Rubin
Performance Consultant to Corporate America & Collegiate Sports Organizations
For 30 years, Lee Rubin has been building high performance teams in both corporate America
and the collegiate sports world, setting the foundational cornerstone for a leadership and culture-building mindset focusing on the key components that create extraordinary teams.
This strong core foundation was instilled early in Lee’s life as he held the position of captain of the Penn State football team and later went on to serve as a Human Resource Executive, building senior leadership teams for some of the countries’ most prominent corporations which have become dominant leaders in their industries.
Lee has emerged as one of the most engaging and sought-after voices across the country with his unique ability to understand and articulate winning principles with tremendous clarity and practical application on team building, leadership, and peak performance. He has collaborated with and taken the stage for leading Fortune 500 Companies like Johnson & Johnson, Sony and JP Morgan, to name a few, as well as collegiate sports teams and organizations across the country.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in speech communications with a minor in business from Penn State University. Rubin received a full athletic scholarship to play football for the Nittany Lions. Lee was a three-year starting free safety, the 1994 Florida Citrus Bowl Defensive MVP, and an All-Big Ten Conference selection and an Honorable Mention All-American.
Lee was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and raised in Central New Jersey. Lee and his lovely wife, Carmen, have been blessed with two beautiful daughters

Dallis Fontenot
Executive Vice President, Engineered Structures, Inc. (ESI)
Dallis was Idaho’s first Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, a 2024 Idaho Business Review Women of the Year award recipient and currently serves as an Executive Vice President of ESI, a billion-dollar construction company. With a passion for equipping leaders to better serve their employees, families, and communities, Dallis specializes in business strategy, executive coaching, leadership development, and change management. She has conducted over 100 workshops and invested thousands of hours coaching leaders to discover their strengths and maximize their teams to reach new heights.

Justin Wren
Elite UFC/MMA Fighter turned Global Humanitarian and Founder of Fight for The
Forgotten
Mercilessly bullied as a child, Justin responded by transforming himself into a champion MMA fighter. Yet despite his success, he quietly questioned the significance of his own athletic accomplishments. Each time his hand was raised in victory he thought, “Is this it? Is this as good as it gets?” As he fought his way to the top and battled never-ending injuries that accompany the profession, he slid into pain-killer addiction, battled depression, and attempted suicide. He was a champion on the outside but broken within.
It wasn’t until a chance collection of circumstances led Justin to one of the most remote places on earth, to live in the rainforest among the Pygmy people, some of the most impoverished and marginalized people on the planet, that he found his true purpose – helping others.
From that experience, ‘The Big Pygmy’ returned to the ring with purpose, founding the non-profit Fight For The Forgotten (FFTF) along the way. Since 2013, FFTF has provided more than 52,000 indigenous people with access to clean drinking water, replanted thousands of trees, acquired more than 3,000 acres of land in the name of the tribe and helped 1,800 people out of slavery and into freedom. Current projects include housing, education, healthcare and sustainable livelihoods through community empowerment.
Today, Justin shares his remarkable story on stages across the country and around the world teaching others the tools, tactics and techniques to navigate any adversity, find purpose, and achieve meaningful impact in business and in life.