The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust, the charitable arm of DFI, recently appointed a new chair, officers and a new trustee.
Dan Dragone, chief sales officer of BAUER-Pileco Inc., is the new chair of the Board of Trustees of the DFI Educational Trust, effective January 1. He succeeds M. Byrl Williams who will retire as chair and member of the board at the end of December 2017. Dragone joined the Trust board in 2012. Since that time, he has served as board secretary and, most recently, as vice chair. He joined BAUER-Pileco in 2009 after working in various positions with Kelly Tractor Co. for over 28 years.
The other officers for 2018 elected at the recent board meeting are vice chair, Tracy Brettmann, P.E., D.GE, A.H Beck Foundation Co.; treasurer, Michael Wysockey, Ph.D., P.E., Thatcher Foundations; and secretary, Rudy Frizzi, P.E., G.E., D. GE, Langan Engineering and Environmental Services.
Seth Pearlman, P.E., D. GE, North American director of Menard, responsible for the activities in the U.S. and Canada, has been elected to serve a five-year term on the DFI Educational Trust Board of Trustees. Pearlman is a former president of DFI. For 10 years, he was the event chair of the DFI Educational Trust Pennsylvania Golf Outing, which has raised significant funding for Trust scholarships at Carnegie Mellon University, Penn State University and the University of Pittsburgh. The Trust board is confident that Pearlman’s leadership, fundraising skills and his passion for the educational mission of the Trust will be a great help to the Trust in achieving its organizational goals.
Contact: Emilio S. Fandino, Trust Administrator, (973)423-4030, efandino@dfi.org.
