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New Board Members Elected

Byers, Veliz Bring New Ideas to AGC El Paso
Economists predict slow but steady return of building activity;
some sectors to fare better than others.

January 2010

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At the annual meeting of the AGC El Paso Chapter in late November, members voted to change the organization’s by-laws to expand the current board by two. New board mem-bers elected were Carmen Byers, President of Byers Con-struction, Inc. and Omar Veliz, Vice President of Operations for EPCON, Inc.

Carmen Byers

Re-elected Chapter President was Ed Anderson, president of Diversified Interiors. He will be succeeded in 2011 by Rob Efaw, of Kere, Inc. who was elected Chapter Vice President. Other board members elected at-large, were Esmail Panahi of Banes GC, Paul Bauer of C.F. Jordan, Inc., Frank James of F.T. James Construction Inc., Tyler Daniels of Dantex Con-struction Co. and Bruce Spitz of Classic Millwork & Prod-ucts, Inc. Byers, the first female board mem-ber in the organiza-tion’s his-tory, has 25+ years experience in construction. She studied construction manage-ment at Oklahoma State Univer-sity and is a Certified Safety Engineer by the American Soci-ety of Safety Engineers. She is LEED certified.

Veliz brings a lot of interest and enthusi-asm to the board of directors. He is a graduate of UTEP with a B.S. de-gree in Civil Engineering (1998) and an MBA (2003). . He began his construction ca-reer with Vaughn Construction. President Anderson thanked all the board members for mak-ing a commitment to the chapter and to promoting professional-ism in construction. “The construction industry always has ups and downs, but this year and next will test the abilities of many of many com-panies to survive the longest recession in the U.S. since the 1930’s,” said Anderson. “But those who are active chapter members, keep networking and use the resources available from AGC will get through this downturn successfully,” he added. Board members are elected in December for one year terms.TB

Omar Veliz

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