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Conti Enterprises
One Cragwood Road
South Plainfield, NJ 07080
Tel 908-791-4800
Fax 908-755-5600



Management

Kurt G. Conti - Chief Executive Officer/President
William Picken - Chief Operating Officer
Mark Liebes - Vice President of Construction
Jay Price - Executive Vice President of Business Development
Patrick Hogan - Vice President of Engineering and Project Management
Aldo Gonzalez - Director of Health and Safety
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Kurt G. Conti | Chief Executive Officer/President
Mr. Conti possesses over twenty-five years of business experience and provides leadership to The Conti Group, which encompasses Conti Enterprises, Inc., Conti Federal Services, Inc., Conti Services, LLC, Conti of New York, LLC, Alternity Wind Power, LLC, SunDurance Energy, LLC., Lehigh Fab & Precast, LLC., and Oakwood Capital, LLC.

Upon graduation from Villanova University, he joined The Conti Group, a construction/engineer firm headquartered in New Jersey. Starting from the ground floor up, Kurt worked in every functional position at Conti, moved through management and assumed the leadership for the business when he became CEO and president in 1995.

Kurt has strengthened The Conti Group from its previous $15 million in annual revenue to over $350 million since his tenure, and has transformed the company from a small organization into its current position as a market leader.

Villanova University - 1984 BSCE - cum laude. Honors Societies – phi kappa phi, tau beta pi, chi epsilon.
Member of Villanova University, College of Engineering Advisory Board
Graduated the Harvard Business School, Owners/Managers Program in 2000
William Picken | Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Picken has over thirty-five years of heavy/civil, industrial, power, transportation, and environmental construction experience. He graduated from Union College with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and completed a Key Executive Program from the Harvard Business School in 2000. Mr. Picken has spent the past 23 years with the Conti Companies and currently has overall operational responsibility for Conti Enterprises, Inc. Mr. Picken manages and oversees the estimating, engineering, and project management functions of the company.
Mark Liebes | Vice President of Construction
Mr. Liebes has twenty-eight years of experience in heavy/civil and environmental construction and is thoroughly skilled in performing large-scale, complex projects within those areas. Mr. Liebes earned his Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and completed the General Managers Program at Harvard Business School.

He is responsible for directing the distribution of the labor and equipment resources and coordinating the activities of the Superintendents on the projects. Mr. Liebes is the primary management person responsible for field operations and the key link in providing the field work force with proper training and with communicating and maintaining Conti's corporate work philosophies.
Jay Price | Executive Vice President of Business Development
Mr. Price has over twenty years of experience in the construction industry and is committed to identifying new emerging markets in the industry in order to position the firm as a market leader/first adopter. Mr. Price attended the University of Mississippi, studying under their Marine Biology program. He went on to graduate from programs such as the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School, Competitive Marketing Strategy at Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and Business Management at Memphis State University.

Mr. Price is accountable for managing a robust team of professional business developers that cover specific market segments for The Conti Group's individual companies. He is responsible for the supervision and coordination of all prequalification submittals, proposals for bidding opportunities, preparation of project specific presentations, and follow up with the client post bid. Mr. Price also serves on the Board of Directors for the Utility and Transportation Contractors Association (UTCA).
Patrick Hogan | Vice President of Engineering and Project Management
Mr. Hogan has twenty years of experience in the construction industry and oversees the activities of all the Project Engineers and Project Managers assigned to the various projects under construction. Mr. Hogan earned his Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Delaware and has completed the General Managers Program at Harvard Business School. He is instrumental in directing the on-site construction engineering activities and project coordination. Mr. Hogan manages the resource loaded schedules, material procurement, value engineering, project designs, quality control process, and the health and safety policies and procedures.
Aldo Gonzalez | Director of Health and Safety
Mr. Gonzalez has twenty-five years of experience in industrial hygiene and health and safety on heavy/civil and hazardous remediation sites. Mr. Gonzalez's educational background includes a Bachelor's degree in Safety Technology from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a certificate from the Community College of the Air Force for Bioenvironmental Engineering. He is a Certified Safety Professional and served as a Bio-environmental Engineering Technician in the US Air Force where he also conducted both industrial hygiene and environmental surveys. Mr. Gonzalez is committed to ensuring the health and safety of all Conti employees and subcontractor personnel.

He is responsible for the development and implementation of Conti's Corporate Health and Safety policies. Mr. Gonzalez oversees all field activities to ensure conformance with federal and state regulations, corporate policies, and the requirements of site-specific health and safety plans.