BLACK & VEATCH HOLDING COMPANY - Key Persons

Ajay Kasarabada

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AVP and Director - Environmental Solutions

Andrea Bernica - SVP

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Chief of Staff
Member of the Leadership Team
Senior Vice President

Andrea Bernica is Senior Vice President, Chief of Staff, on the Black & Veatch Leadership Team. She works alongside Chairman and CEO Mario Azar on companywide strategic objectives and helps to prioritize and track progress of companywide initiatives as well as manage follow-through on decisions and actions for Black & Veatch's Board of Directors. She also oversees the management of external relationships and incoming requests to the CEO as well as executive-level communications. With more than 20 years of industry and legal experience, including 11 years with Black & Veatch, Andrea most recently served as Vice President & Lead Counsel, Human Resources, Corporate Compliance and Enterprise Risk Management. Before Black & Veatch she was an attorney at three major law firms.

Andrew G. McMaster

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Member of the Board of Directors
Independent Lead Director

Andrew McMaster, Jr., joined the Black & Veatch Board of Directors in June 2015. In May 2015, McMaster retired from Deloitte & Touche LLP, one of the world's largest professional services networks providing audit, tax, consulting, enterprise risk and financial advisory services. A retired Senior Partner, Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman, he spent his entire 39-year career with Deloitte & Touche. He served as Vice Chairman at Deloitte since 2002 and was responsible for starting the firm's Forensic Services Practice at a time when forensic accounting was still a new concept. He also served as National Managing Partner of Deloitte's CEO client program. Mr. McMaster currently serves on the Board of Directors of UBS Americas Holding LLC, a subsidiary of UBS AG, where he serves as the Chairperson of the Audit Committee and on the Risk Committee, and on Natura & Co, a Brazilian beauty company where he serves on the Audit Committee. He previously served as Chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Committee (FASAC), an advisory body to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). McMaster earned a bachelor's degree in Economics from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY, and his MBA from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. He previously served on the Deloitte LLP and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd Boards. In addition, he serves on the Hobart and William Smith Colleges Board of Trustees and was formerly the audit committee Chair for the National Episcopal Church.

Angela Castillo

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Business Development Director Energy - South America

Antonio Antelo

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Sales Manager

Barbara Butler

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Remediation Subject Matter Lead

Barbara Butler is the Remediation Subject Matter Lead for Black & Veatch's environmental services team. She has executed and managed projects under both state and federal regulatory programs and involving all aspects of response actions to traditional and emerging contaminants such as PFAS. This involvement includes field planning and investigation, site characterization, feasibility study, groundwater modeling, remedial design and action, human health and ecological risk assessment, hazardous and solid waste management, and Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessment.

Barry Clegg

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Member of the Leadership Team
President, BV Operations

Barry Clegg was named president of BV Operations in August 2022. The function comprises a centralized pool of resources and talent serving as the execution engine that keeps the global engineering and construction company running. BV Operations, with more than 8,100 professionals, houses project execution capabilities and resources, and maintains, develops and deploys global resources in support of the work the company performs around the world. Before assuming his President role, Barry managed large complex projects across a wide range of solutions. He has experience in engineering, proposals, supply chain, contracts, and client-relationship management. He has nearly three decades of worldwide project experience, including 26 years with Black & Veatch. Barry earned a bachelor's degree in physics from MidAmerica Nazarene University (Kansas) and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Kansas State University.