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leadership. Appointments follow the retirement of outgoing president and CEO Gregg Borchelt, celebrated with top industry honors. "Our board and council members continually demonstrate a strong commitment to BIA and the American clay brick industry," said Ray Leonhard. He's the association's new president and CEO, promoted from chief financial officer and vice president of administration. Leonhard will lead BIA in its strategic direction, effectively using the association's resources to implement programs and services that maximize member value. Praised for his outstanding 40 years of industry wide service, Borchelt retired with honors, including: 2014 C. DeWitt Brown Leadman Award by Mason Contractors Association of America (MCAA) and also received BIA's 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award. Roman Fountains announced news for 2014. Tom Hanson, an Atlanta- based sales vice-president and Rob Astorga, an A l b u q u e r q u e - b a s e d operations manager, will be expanding their leadership roles with the company. Hanson will be assuming nationwide responsibility for customer relations and systems engineering teams. Astorga will become site leader in Albuquerque and have full responsibility for operations, systems quality and validation, systems shipping, and service parts fulfillment. David O'Halloran, president of Manufacturing Futures, will become president of Roman Fountains, its new subsidiary. Lifescapes International, a landscape architectural design firm, has promoted two associates to principals, six principals to senior principals and four senior principals to executive senior principals. "We are fortunate to have such a strong and talented group of professionals that have been with us for many years. We know this is rare in today's ever changing world, especially for a boutique firm." said Don Brinkerhoff, CEO and founder of the 55-year old company. Promoted to principals are Matthew Geiss, project manager and Marianne Mastroianni, project manager. Promoted to senior principals are Diego Alessi, landscape architect/designer; Al Amador, landscape architect/designer; Michael Calderon, IT director; Michael Meyers, project director; Nick Patel, project director and Peter Yen, director of Asia projects. April 2014 83 m o v e r s & s h a k e r s Ray Leonhard Tom Hanson Rob Astorga David O'Halloran Lifescapes International recently made promotions within its landscape architectural design firm. Top row: Michael Meyers, Nick Patel, Marianne Mastroianni, Ala Amador, Micahel Calderon. Bottom row: Diego Alessi, Don Brinkerhoff FASLA, Matthew Geiss. Not pictured, Peter Yen. I n f o r m a t i o n R e q u e s t # 6 0 9 82-83.indd 83 3/27/14 3:21 PM