January/February 2021 - 25

DFI

ACTIVITIES

New DFI President, Officers and Trustees
DFI's membership voted for a new
roster of officers that includes a new
president, elected four new members to
the DFI Board of Trustees, and reelected two trustees.

New President and Executive
Committee
New DFI President Michael H.
Wysockey, Ph.D., P.E, is the president of
Thatcher Foundations, a specialty
contractor working in design-build

earth retention, pile driving, drilled
foundations, and marine construction.
Wysockey received his bachelor 's
degree in civil engineering from The
Citadel, his master's from MIT, and his
doctorate in geotechnical engineering
from the University of Illinois, Urbana
Champaign - where he received
Wilson and Peck fellowships. His
publications range in focus from shore
erosion, to the effect of local soil
conditions on earthquake motions, to
the capacity of deep foundations. A
former chair of DFI's Driven Pile
Committee, he recently chaired the
Chicago Committee on High Rise
Buildings and the ASCE Geotechnical
Group, Illinois Section. He is also a
member of the ASCE, PDCA and ADSC.

Serving with Wysockey as officers
of the DFI Board of Trustees are
Gianfranco Di Cicco, Bauer Foundation
Corp., vice president; James O. Johnson,
Condon-Johnson & Associates,
treasurer; and Erik Loehr, Ph.D., P.E.,
University of Missouri - Columbia, as
secretary. Matthew Janes, MBA, P.Eng.,
Isherwood Associates, is the immediate
past president.

John A. Anderson is the owner/
president of Specrete-IP, a manufacturer of grouting and concrete additives
that are used in various foundation
elements. A graduate of Kent State
University in Ohio, Anderson has over
40 years of experience in the concrete
and grouting industry. At Master
Builders, he worked with both
prepackaged grouts and concrete
admixtures. He also was president of
the Spray-Cure/Chemmasters
Company before joining Specrete in
1995. Anderson is a member of the DFI
Augered Cast-In-Place and Drilled
Displacement Pile Committee and
chairs DFI's Manufacturers, Suppliers
and Service Providers Committee.

improvement and earth retention
structures. Cadden assisted in the
development of the Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA) Micropile
Design and Construction as well as the
Soil Nail manuals. He was also the lead
instructor for the National Highway
Institute (NHI) micropile class. He is a
past president of the Geo-Institute of
ASCE, past board member of ADSC, past
chairman of the International Society
for Micropiles (ISM), and a member of
the board of directors for the
International Conference Organization
for Grouting (ICOG).
Lucky Nagarajan is general
manager - engineering and business
development at Giken America, a
construction solution engineering
company and leading manufacturer of
specialty equipment known as Silent
Piler. Nagarajan is a geotechnical
engineer with 15 years of business
development, engineering, project
management and field experience. She
has worked on a variety of foundation
solutions in residential, commercial to
energy/fuel, dams and mining
industries. A recipient of DFI's
President's Awards, she is the co-chair

Anderson

Nagarajan

New Trustees

Cadden

Allen W. Cadden, P.E., D.GE, is a
principal and former chairman of the
board for Schnabel Engineering. He
started his Schnabel career as an intern
more than 35 years ago and has
designed numerous geotechnical
structures, including shallow and deep
fo u n d a t i o n s a s w e l l a s g ro u n d

Ofori-Awuah

of the DFI of India Regional Chapter
Support Committee, chair of the
Women in Deep Foundations
Committee, and founder of the Women
in Deep Foundations subgroups in India
and the New York Metro area.
Kwabena Ofori-Awuah, P.E., D.GE,
ENV SP, is president and CEO of Koforia.
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