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ON THE MOVE SEPI ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION GROWS TEAM WITH SENIOR NEW HIRE AND PROMOTION SEPI Engineering & Construction , a fully-integrated engineering and design firm, announced the newest addition to its senior leadership team as well as a notable promotion. SEPI Engineering & Construction welcomes Steve Moore as a senior vice president, director of corporate growth and development, and the firm promoted Barry Moose to expand his role as senior vice president to encompass the responsibilities of director of infrastructure. Moore, who specializes in transportation and land development, led a successful career in solving production efficiency issues across multiple disciplines. Prior to joining SEPI Engineering & Construction, Moore spent 15 years in various positions with the Florida Department of Transportation combined with more than 18 years of leadership roles in the engineering consulting industry. In this role Moore will work collaboratively with the leadership team to identify and target new markets for the firm in addition to overseeing corporate growth initiatives to ensure the staff has the resources and skills to support future growth. Moose has more than 35 years of experience and has led several of the firm’s largest transportation projects. Since joining SEPI Engineering & Construction in 2012, he has become an integral part of the senior leadership team and will continue to be instrumental in the advancement of the firm. In his expanded role as director of infrastructure, Moose will apply his vision and expertise across all of SEPI Engineering & Construction’s lines of services, focusing on process

improvement, quality assurance and control, business development strategy and client retention. “We are proud to have incredible talent coming to SEPI and to have a team that is constantly strengthening from within,” said Sepi Saidi, president and CEO of SEPI Engineering & Construction. “It is imperative that we keep up with the always-changing landscape in our industry so we can continue to provide the best service and highest quality work for our clients. Both Steve and Barry are extremely dedicated and talented, and we look forward to the advancement SEPI will see with them on our team.” This announcement comes on the heels of an outstanding year of growth for SEPI Engineering & Construction. In 2018, SEPI Engineering & Construction reached $40 million in revenue, grew to 360 employees in North Carolina, and expanded with significant project wins for the City of Raleigh and the North Carolina Department of Transportation. SEPI Engineering & Construction is a fully integrated engineering and design firm focused on innovation, sustainability, and excellence. SEPI Engineering & Construction provides a wide range of engineering, planning, environmental, and construction management services in many functional areas. With the firm’s combined years of hands-on experience, an ever-expanding knowledge base and an established reputation, SEPI Engineering & Construction’s services are utilized on projects of various size and complexity.

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services firm that has to consistently sell and deliver projects to clients in a super- competitive market and recruit highly sought-after talent every day in spite of a huge industry-wide labor shortage? I don’t think so. And that is the situation we’re in. Like it or not, leaders in THIS business have to be able to sell. Not only do they have to sell services to clients, they have to sell people on joining (and staying) with the firm. That takes charisma. Is charisma in shorter supply than technical/ academic/institutional knowledge? Yes. And will successors (assuming we want organizational continuity) have the same type of charisma and do things the same way as their predecessors? Probably not. Does that create transition challenges for the firm? Yes. Is there an easy way around it? No. Either way, the solution to the leadership challenges in our firms probably doesn’t lie in learning how “Great” organizations like Circuit City and Fannie Mae did things in the ‘90s. More likely, it lies in getting the people we have, and those we will have, into the right roles as quickly as possible, providing them with training, support, and mentoring, and keeping an eye on the situation so we can make changes when mis-assignments become evident. MARK ZWEIG is Zweig Group’s chairman and founder. Contact him at mzweig@zweiggroup.com.

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