Alizadeh to Chair ACEC-MO Board

Edmond D. "Ed" Alizadeh, P.E., Esq., President and CEO of Geotechnology, Inc. has been elected chairman-elect of the Board of Directors of the American Council of Engineering Companies of Missouri (ACEC/MO) for 2010-2011.  Alizadeh has served as Vice Chairman of the board since 2008.

ACEC/MO, headquartered in Jefferson City, Missouri is a state association of more than 100 of Missouri's leading engineering companies, representing more than 4,600 employees who annually design some $14 billion in constructed public work and private industry projects.  The council, whose main goal is the economic "bottom line" welfare of all engineering companies, is comprised of the design professional owners and top management of these engineering firms.

Alizadeh is a 1984 petroleum-engineering graduate of the University of Tulsa, and in 1989 joined Geotechnology, Inc., a firm founded by his father, the late Mike Alizadeh. He became the firm's environmental department manager in 1994 and maintained that role while attending the Saint Louis University School of Law. He earned his Juris Doctorate in 1996, and was soon thereafter named Geotechnology's president.

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