Board of Advisors

The Fire Protection Board of Advisors meets annually to discuss current issues and future opportunities with the WPI faculty and administration. The board submits its recommendations and reports to the president of WPI and head of WPI's Fire Protection Engineering Department.

CONTACT
Phone: 508-831-5593
Fax: 508-831-5862

Current Members

Wayne D. Moore, P.E.(chair)

Vice President, Corporate Strategy

JENSEN HUGHES

Melissa Avila

Engineering Manager

Kidde-Fenwal, Inc.

Andrew G. Berezowski

HBT Engineering Fellow

Honeywell l Security and Fire

April Berkol

Chair of the SFPE Foundation Board of Governors

SFPE Research Foundation

Kristin Bigda

Senior Fire Protection Engineer

National Fire Protection Association

Philip Crombie

2nd Vice President

Forensic Laboratory Travelers

Sergey B. Dorofeev

AVP, Director of Fire Hazards and Protection Research

FM Global, Research Division

Dr. Anthony Hamins

Chief, Fire Research Division

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Zachary Magnone

Sr. Manager - Innovation and New Ventures

TYCO Fire Protection Products

Jeffrey Tubbs

Principal

Arup

Pravinray D. Gandhi

Director, Corporate Research

Underwriters Laboratories

Kevin Morin, PE

Principal

Code Consultants, Inc.

Thomas Scherpa

Chemical Engineering and Fire Protection Consultant

DuPont

Victor Sordillo, P.E., CSP

Senior Vice President

QBE Insurance

Lawrence W. Thau, Jr.

Chief Technical Officer

Victaulic

Bernie Till

Fire Protection Engineering Manager

AECOM

Jose L. Torero, Ph.D.

Professor of Engineering and Head of School

The University of Queensland

Peter J. Gore Willse, P.E., FSFPE

Vice President – Director of Research

Global Asset Protection Services LLC

Emeritus Members

Dougal Drysdale

Professor of Fire Safety Engineering

Fire Safety Engineering Unit

University of Edinburgh

Howard W. Emmons (deceased)

Professor Emeritus

Harvard University

Rolf H. Jensen (deceased)

Professor and FPE Department Head

Illinois Institute of Technology

Martin (Mickey) Reiss - retired

CEO

Rolf-Jensen Associates

George E. Toth

Chief Marketing Officer

JENSEN HUGHES

James Quiter

Principal

Arup

Donald J. Talka

Senior Vice President & Chief Engineer

UL LLC

Mike Knoll

Director of Solution Sales

SIEMENS Building Technologies Division