From City Hall to $2 Billion in Capital Programs: PRI Appoints Three Leaders Who Have Sat in Every Seat on a Project
PRI Engineering Corp. (PRI) has added three senior leaders to its leadership team: Jesse Unke as Vice President, Transportation and Infrastructure; Nola Kilmartin as Vice President, Property and Buildings; and Andrei Cvaci as Engineering Director. The appointments add senior project and operations experience as PRI continues to grow across Canada and signal a higher level of customer care across all sectors.
For clients, the change means more senior people involved earlier in their project scope, steering decisions, expediting progress and getting results. Between them, the three have led consulting practices, delivered capital programs as owners and approved development as a municipal chief planner, so they know what it takes to get a project approved, built and running.
Jesse Unke, P.Eng., PE, PMP, RMP, CMC
Jesse Unke, P.Eng., brings 20 years of experience leading consulting firms and practices across the public, private and Indigenous sectors, on capital and major infrastructure projects throughout Canada and North America. He joins PRI from MNP, where he was Partner and National Lead of the Capital Projects and Infrastructure Consulting practice. He has also served as President and CEO of Maven Consulting, leading more than 50 staff, and as Vice President, Canada at COWI, where he led strategy and operations for more than 150 employees across four offices and helped establish the firm’s Toronto presence. Jesse has been named to On-Site’s 40 Under 40 in Canadian Construction and SiteNews’ Most Influential People in Canadian Construction and is an Engineers Canada 30 by 30 EDI Champion.
Nola Kilmartin, MUP, RPP, MCIP
Nola Kilmartin, MUP, RPP, MCIP, brings more than 15 years of planning and development experience. As Chief Planner for the City of Kelowna, she restructured and led the city’s 20-person development planning department, changed policies and procedures to speed up processing, and advised council, developers and community partners through a period of major provincial housing reform. She previously grew WSP’s Planning, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture team in B.C. to the largest in its history and co-founded Arc Studio in Edmonton. Her work has earned a CMHC Gold Roof Award and a CIP Urban Design Award, and she was named one of Edmonton’s Top 40 Under 40.
Andrei Cvaci, MBA, P.Eng, PMP, LEED AP BD+C
Andrei Cvaci, P.Eng., brings more than 20 years of engineering and capital project leadership across consulting, owner and construction roles. He has delivered infrastructure and major capital programs valued at more than $2 billion in senior roles with Stantec, the City of Vancouver, Transportation Investment Corporation and the City of Coquitlam, across heavy civil and transportation, industrial, municipal, utility, and water and wastewater work. At PRI, he leads engineering on multidisciplinary projects, with a focus on constructability, project delivery, risk management and close integration between engineering and construction.
The result for clients is fewer late-stage surprises: risks are flagged while they can still be designed out, and projects move from approval to construction without losing time between teams.
“Between them, Jesse, Nola and Andrei have sat in every seat on a project: consultant, owner and approver,” said Manish Nayar, CEO of PRI. “That’s the experience our clients want close to their work, and it strengthens what we can offer across the country.”