Lilia A. Abron, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE

Founder, President and CEO

Dr. Lilia Abron is President and Chief Executive Officer of PEER and a pioneer in the industry. She has built one of the largest black, female-owned and operated, environmental engineering firms in the United States. Dr. Abron’s experience spans 50 years in planning and managing environmental engineering programs for the improvement, maintenance and enhancement of the natural and built environments.

She is also the President and Founder, of PEER Africa (Pty) Ltd., an innovative design-build, sustainable development company with offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa.
 

John M. Corliss, Jr., P.E.

Sr. Vice President and Chief Engineer 

Mr. Corliss serves as the Sr. Vice President and Chief Engineer at PEER with over 40 years of experience. He has led many infrastructure development and institutional strengthening projects from strategic planning and conceptual design through design and implementation.

With extensive public sector management and consulting experience, John has a keen understanding of the needs of government officials in municipal, state and federal agencies. Examples of his work include Wastewater Master Plans for the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority and the British Virgin Islands, Post Disaster Long-Term Recovery Plans for three Parishes Louisiana (including New Orleans), a Strategic Plan for the West Africa Water Initiative (US AID and UNICEF), and the Engineering Assessment of DC Water's built assets and operations.

John is a licensed Professional Engineer with a Master of Science degree in both Industrial Engineering and Public Policy & Administration. A Fellow of Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers and past Council of Fellows Chair, he is recognized as a strong advocate for proactive systems thinking based leadership in sustainable development.

Joyce McDonald

Vice President, Mid-Atlantic Operations

Ms. McDonald serves as our Vice President of Mid-Atlantic Operations. Joyce has been with PEER for 14 years, but all in all, she has over 40 years of experience managing wastewater laboratories, wastewater operations, and O&M teams. She began her career at PEER as the Sr. Project Manager of the Operations & Maintenance Services Group for the OMAP contract at DC Water Blue Plains AWTP that PEER has primed for 25 years. She earned her B.S. degree in Chemistry.

Thomas J. Gustafson, P.E.

Vice President, New England Operations

Mr. Gustafson serves as PEER’s Vice President of New England Operations. He has been with PEER for 12 years and overall, has 33 years of engineering and construction management experience in the successful completion of over $700M in capital construction programs within the environmental, infrastructure, and building construction industry. He earned his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering and has his Professional Engineering (P.E.) registration in Massachusetts. Recently, he has been elected to serve on the Construction Managers Association of America (CMAA) New England Board of Directors.

Ricardo A. Martinez, P.E., BCEE

Director of Environmental Engineer Management Services

Mr. Martinez’s background includes Chemical Engineering which confers to him to be highly analytical, hands-on in many projects he has managed. Ricardo has 25 years of experience successfully managed multiple projects in the areas of: environmental evaluations, regulatory compliance, and audits, evaluation, and analysis of environmental impacts, environmental permitting, data analysis, and subsequent assessments. Mr. Martinez has extensive experience in stormwater planning related work ranging from Event Mean Concentration (EMCs) calculations and pollutants loading, sedimentation ponds design to overseeing various construction projects for stormwater-related issues and BMPs.

His passion and vision of the environment has taken him to manage work on the built environment such as hazardous materials surveys, specialized environmental assessments such as NEPA assessments process, Hazardous materials and more recently company resiliency and Energy efficiency. He possesses Professional certifications as professional Engineer in FL, VA, MD and the District of Columbia.