WILLDAN GROUP INC (WLDN)

Sector: Industrials

Name	Position	Age	Qualifications and Experience	Committee Memberships	Filing Year
Cynthia A. Downes	Chair; Independent Director	65	["Industry & Technical Expertise","Client Regulatory","Business Development and M&A","Talents Management & Compensation","Governance & Risk Oversight","Innovation & Technology","Oversee the integrity of the Company’s financial statements and financial reporting","Determined to be an audit committee financial expert","President and CEO of Fide Professional Services, which she founded in 2017","Chief Financial Officer of Constant and Associates, Inc. from 2020 to 2022","Accounting & Finance leadership consulting services for Guidehouse, a $1B+ consulting firm, from 2018 to 2019","Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer at Versar, Inc. (NYSE:VSR) from 2011 to 2017","Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Environmental Design International Inc. from 2009 to 2011","Vice President of Finance of GDI Advanced Protection Solutions from 2008 to 2009","Previously spent 15 years at Tetra Tech, Inc. (Nasdaq:TTEK), ultimately serving as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of its subsidiary, Tetra Tech, EM Inc.","Current member of the Board of Trustees and Chair of the Audit Committee of Riverside Research","Senior leadership; industry & technical expertise; business development and M&A; financial sophistication; governance & risk oversight","Active CPA and member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants","B.S. Accounting and Business Management Purdue University","M.B.A. Northwestern University","NACD Directorship Certification (“NACD.DC”)"]	["C","M","Audit Committee","Compensation Committee"]	2026
Dennis V. McGinn			["Senior Leadership","Business Development and M&A","Talent Management & Compensation","Governance & Risk Oversight"]	[]	2026
Dr. Thomas D. Brisbin	Chairman	73	["Senior leadership","industry & technical experience","business development and M&A","financial sophistication","talent management & compensation","governance & risk oversight","B.S. Northern Illinois University","Ph.D. Environmental Engineering Illinois Institute of Technology","Completed Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program"]	[]	2026
Michael A. Bieber	President & CEO; President and Chief Executive Officer	57	["Senior Leadership","Business Development and M&A","Talent Management & Compensation","Governance & Risk Oversight","CEO and Director since December 2023","President since November 2016","Senior Vice President, Corporate Development from 2014 to 2016","Vice President and other leadership roles at Tetra Tech, Inc. including managing mergers & acquisitions, investor relations, business development, and communications from 1996 to 2014","Strategic business consultant at CRC, Inc. to large defense, infrastructure, and environmental firms from 1995 to 1996","Project manager and engineer on government nuclear and commercial environmental projects at IT Corporation (now CB&I) from 1990 to 1995","B.S. Civil Engineering from the Tennessee Technological University"]	[]	2026
Mohammad Shahidehpour	Chair; Independent Director	70	["Senior Leadership","Industry & Technical Expertise","Client Regulatory","Business Development and M&A","Financial Sophistication","Governance & Risk Oversight","Former IIT Research Vice-President overseeing $80M in annual budget and over 200 technical projects","Principal investigator of over $60 million in grants and contracts related to electricity and modernization technological advances","Founding chair of the IEEE Great Lakes Symposium on Smart Grid and the New Energy Economy","Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid Journal since 2009","Elected Member of National Academy of Engineering in the U.S.","Keynote speaker in 20 International Conferences since 2007 and counseled governments on electricity and grid modernization bills globally","Senior leadership; industry & technical expertise; business development and M&A; talent management & compensation; governance & risk oversight, innovation & technology","IEEE Distinguished Lecturer; Delivered over 100 invited lecturers on electricity restructuring and smart grid issues","Author of six books and 400 technical papers on electric power systems","B.S. Electrical Engineering from Iran's Sharif University of Technology","M.S. in Electrical in Engineering","Ph.D. from the University of Missouri"]	["M","C","Chairperson, Nominating and Governance Committee","Member, Compensation Committee","Member, Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions Committee"]	2026
Steven A. Cohen	Lead Independent Director; Member	72	["Senior Leadership","Industry & Technical Expertise","Client Regulatory","Business Development and M&A","Talent Management & Compensation","Governance & Risk Oversight","Oversee compliance with legal and regulatory requirements","Discuss policies with respect to risk assessment, monitoring and mitigation with management and independent auditor","Review qualifications and independence of the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm","Review performance of the Company’s internal reporting and audit functions","Senior Vice Dean and Chief Operating Officer of the School of Professional Studies at Columbia University","Consultant to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for past three decades","Served on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Advisory Council on environmental Policy and Technology from 2001-2004","Director of Columbia's Graduate Program in Public Policy and Administration from 1985 to 1998","Former policy analyst for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency before joining CU in 1981","B.A. Political Science from Franklin College","M.A. Political Science from University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY-Buffalo)","Ph.D. Political Science from SUNY-Buffalo","Senior leadership; industry & technical expertise; client regulatory; business development and M&A; financial sophistication; governance & risk oversight"]	["AC","M","C","Audit Committee","Lead Independent Director","Chairperson, Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions Committee","Member, Audit Committee","Member, Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee"]	2026
Thomas D. Brisbin	Chairman of the Board	73	["Senior Leadership","Industry & Technical Expertise","Business Development and M&A","Financial Sophistication","Talent Management & Compensation","Governance & Risk Oversight"]	[]	2026
Vice Admiral Dennis V. McGinn	Member; Independent Director	80	["Retired as Vice Admiral of United States Navy after 35 years","Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Warfare Requirements and Programs","Previously commanded United States Third Fleet","Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations, and Environment from September 2013 – January 2017","Former President of the American Council on Renewable Energy","Past member of the Steering Committee of the Energy Future Coalition","Past member of the U.S. Energy Security Council","Past member of the Bipartisan Center Energy Board","Past Co-Chairman of the CNA Military Advisory Board","Trustee at RMI (Rocky Mountain Institute)","Past member of the Board of Directors at Electric Power Research Institute","Past member of the Board of Directors at Customer First Renewables","Senior leadership","Industry & technical expertise","Client regulatory","Business development and M&A","Talent management & compensation","Governance & risk oversight","Innovation & technology","B.S. Naval Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy","Participant, National Security Program at Harvard University's Kennedy School"]	["C","M","Chairperson, Compensation Committee","Member, Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee","Member, Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions Committee"]	2026
Wanda K. Reder	Director; Member	61	["Senior Leadership","Business Development and M&A","Governance & Risk Oversight","Oversee compliance with legal and regulatory requirements","Discuss policies with respect to risk assessment, monitoring and mitigation with management and independent auditor","Review qualifications and independence of the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm","Review performance of the Company’s internal reporting and audit functions","President/CEO of Reder Advisors, LLC.","Past Member of the Electricity Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of Energy","Former Vice President of Power Systems Services and Chief Strategy Officer of S&C Electric Company","Former Vice President of Asset Management and Vice President of Engineering & System Planning of Exelon Energy Delivery","Board member of TechPro Power Group","Former Vice President, Energy Sector of Davies Consulting, Inc","Senior leadership","Industry & technical expertise","Client regulatory","Business development and M&A","Financial sophistication","Talent management & compensation","Governance & risk oversight","Innovation & technology","Elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering","Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers","B.S. Engineering South Dakota State University","M.B.A. University of St. Thomas"]	["M","Audit Committee","Compensation Committee","Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee"]	2026

Name

Position

Age

Qualifications and Experience

Committee Memberships

Filing Year

Cynthia A. Downes

Chair; Independent Director

["Industry & Technical Expertise","Client Regulatory","Business Development and M&A","Talents Management & Compensation","Governance & Risk Oversight","Innovation & Technology","Oversee the integrity of the Company’s financial statements and financial reporting","Determined to be an audit committee financial expert","President and CEO of Fide Professional Services, which she founded in 2017","Chief Financial Officer of Constant and Associates, Inc. from 2020 to 2022","Accounting & Finance leadership consulting services for Guidehouse, a $1B+ consulting firm, from 2018 to 2019","Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer at Versar, Inc. (NYSE:VSR) from 2011 to 2017","Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Environmental Design International Inc. from 2009 to 2011","Vice President of Finance of GDI Advanced Protection Solutions from 2008 to 2009","Previously spent 15 years at Tetra Tech, Inc. (Nasdaq:TTEK), ultimately serving as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of its subsidiary, Tetra Tech, EM Inc.","Current member of the Board of Trustees and Chair of the Audit Committee of Riverside Research","Senior leadership; industry & technical expertise; business development and M&A; financial sophistication; governance & risk oversight","Active CPA and member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants","B.S. Accounting and Business Management Purdue University","M.B.A. Northwestern University","NACD Directorship Certification (“NACD.DC”)"]

["C","M","Audit Committee","Compensation Committee"]

2026

Dennis V. McGinn

["Senior Leadership","Business Development and M&A","Talent Management & Compensation","Governance & Risk Oversight"]

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2026

Dr. Thomas D. Brisbin

Chairman

["Senior leadership","industry & technical experience","business development and M&A","financial sophistication","talent management & compensation","governance & risk oversight","B.S. Northern Illinois University","Ph.D. Environmental Engineering Illinois Institute of Technology","Completed Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program"]

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2026

Michael A. Bieber

President & CEO; President and Chief Executive Officer

["Senior Leadership","Business Development and M&A","Talent Management & Compensation","Governance & Risk Oversight","CEO and Director since December 2023","President since November 2016","Senior Vice President, Corporate Development from 2014 to 2016","Vice President and other leadership roles at Tetra Tech, Inc. including managing mergers & acquisitions, investor relations, business development, and communications from 1996 to 2014","Strategic business consultant at CRC, Inc. to large defense, infrastructure, and environmental firms from 1995 to 1996","Project manager and engineer on government nuclear and commercial environmental projects at IT Corporation (now CB&I) from 1990 to 1995","B.S. Civil Engineering from the Tennessee Technological University"]

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2026

Mohammad Shahidehpour

Chair; Independent Director

["Senior Leadership","Industry & Technical Expertise","Client Regulatory","Business Development and M&A","Financial Sophistication","Governance & Risk Oversight","Former IIT Research Vice-President overseeing $80M in annual budget and over 200 technical projects","Principal investigator of over $60 million in grants and contracts related to electricity and modernization technological advances","Founding chair of the IEEE Great Lakes Symposium on Smart Grid and the New Energy Economy","Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid Journal since 2009","Elected Member of National Academy of Engineering in the U.S.","Keynote speaker in 20 International Conferences since 2007 and counseled governments on electricity and grid modernization bills globally","Senior leadership; industry & technical expertise; business development and M&A; talent management & compensation; governance & risk oversight, innovation & technology","IEEE Distinguished Lecturer; Delivered over 100 invited lecturers on electricity restructuring and smart grid issues","Author of six books and 400 technical papers on electric power systems","B.S. Electrical Engineering from Iran's Sharif University of Technology","M.S. in Electrical in Engineering","Ph.D. from the University of Missouri"]

["M","C","Chairperson, Nominating and Governance Committee","Member, Compensation Committee","Member, Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions Committee"]

2026

Steven A. Cohen

Lead Independent Director; Member

["Senior Leadership","Industry & Technical Expertise","Client Regulatory","Business Development and M&A","Talent Management & Compensation","Governance & Risk Oversight","Oversee compliance with legal and regulatory requirements","Discuss policies with respect to risk assessment, monitoring and mitigation with management and independent auditor","Review qualifications and independence of the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm","Review performance of the Company’s internal reporting and audit functions","Senior Vice Dean and Chief Operating Officer of the School of Professional Studies at Columbia University","Consultant to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for past three decades","Served on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Advisory Council on environmental Policy and Technology from 2001-2004","Director of Columbia's Graduate Program in Public Policy and Administration from 1985 to 1998","Former policy analyst for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency before joining CU in 1981","B.A. Political Science from Franklin College","M.A. Political Science from University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY-Buffalo)","Ph.D. Political Science from SUNY-Buffalo","Senior leadership; industry & technical expertise; client regulatory; business development and M&A; financial sophistication; governance & risk oversight"]

["AC","M","C","Audit Committee","Lead Independent Director","Chairperson, Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions Committee","Member, Audit Committee","Member, Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee"]

2026

Thomas D. Brisbin

Chairman of the Board

["Senior Leadership","Industry & Technical Expertise","Business Development and M&A","Financial Sophistication","Talent Management & Compensation","Governance & Risk Oversight"]

[]

2026

Vice Admiral Dennis V. McGinn

Member; Independent Director

["Retired as Vice Admiral of United States Navy after 35 years","Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Warfare Requirements and Programs","Previously commanded United States Third Fleet","Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations, and Environment from September 2013 – January 2017","Former President of the American Council on Renewable Energy","Past member of the Steering Committee of the Energy Future Coalition","Past member of the U.S. Energy Security Council","Past member of the Bipartisan Center Energy Board","Past Co-Chairman of the CNA Military Advisory Board","Trustee at RMI (Rocky Mountain Institute)","Past member of the Board of Directors at Electric Power Research Institute","Past member of the Board of Directors at Customer First Renewables","Senior leadership","Industry & technical expertise","Client regulatory","Business development and M&A","Talent management & compensation","Governance & risk oversight","Innovation & technology","B.S. Naval Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy","Participant, National Security Program at Harvard University's Kennedy School"]

["C","M","Chairperson, Compensation Committee","Member, Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee","Member, Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions Committee"]

2026

Wanda K. Reder

Director; Member

["Senior Leadership","Business Development and M&A","Governance & Risk Oversight","Oversee compliance with legal and regulatory requirements","Discuss policies with respect to risk assessment, monitoring and mitigation with management and independent auditor","Review qualifications and independence of the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm","Review performance of the Company’s internal reporting and audit functions","President/CEO of Reder Advisors, LLC.","Past Member of the Electricity Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of Energy","Former Vice President of Power Systems Services and Chief Strategy Officer of S&C Electric Company","Former Vice President of Asset Management and Vice President of Engineering & System Planning of Exelon Energy Delivery","Board member of TechPro Power Group","Former Vice President, Energy Sector of Davies Consulting, Inc","Senior leadership","Industry & technical expertise","Client regulatory","Business development and M&A","Financial sophistication","Talent management & compensation","Governance & risk oversight","Innovation & technology","Elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering","Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers","B.S. Engineering South Dakota State University","M.B.A. University of St. Thomas"]

["M","Audit Committee","Compensation Committee","Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee"]

2026