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2025 Membership Election

2025-2026 BOD Nominees

Nominees’ current Society activities are provided to assist voters in choosing candidates to lead ASHRAE in the upcoming Society year.

Executive Committee

The 2025-2026 Executive Committee will include the President, President-Elect, Treasurer, four Vice Presidents and Secretary (who is a non-voting member). The Executive Committee makes recommendations to the Board of Directors and may choose to act on their behalf on time-sensitive issues between meetings.

William F. McQuade, P.E., CDP, Fellow ASHRAE, LEED AP, will serve as Society president for 2025-2026 because he was elected president-elect on the 2024-2025 ballot.

President

William F. McQuade, P.E., CDP, Fellow ASHRAE, LEED AP, vice president for government affairs and global sustainability, Baltimore Aircoil Company, Jessup, Maryland.

Current service: president-elect, Board of Directors; president-elect, ASHRAE/REHVA Committee; chair, Appointments Roadmap Committee; chair, Members Council; vice chair, President-Elect Advisory Committee; coordinating officer, Conferences and Exposition Committee; coordinating officer, Communications Committee; coordinating officer, Chapter Technology Transfer Committee; coordinating officer, Honors and Awards Committee; coordinating officer, Membership Promotion Committee; coordinating officer, Research Promotion Committee; coordinating officer, Student Activities Committee; coordinating officer, Young Engineers in ASHRAE Committee; liaison, Center of Excellence for Building Decarbonization; member, Standing Standards Project Committee 400, Risk Management for Building Water Systems.

President-Elect

Sarah E. Maston, P.E., BCxP, LEED AP, director, Colliers, Hudson, Massachusetts.

Current service: treasurer, Board of Directors; chair, Finance Committee; vice chair, Members Council; vice chair, Appointments Roadmap Committee; coordinating officer, Government Affairs Committee; treasurer, ASHRAE/REHVA Committee; member, President-Elect Advisory Committee; member, AiCARR ASHRAE Club; member, Treasurer Advisory Committee; member, ASHRAE Membership Model Ad Hoc; ASHRAE Representative, Building Owners and Managers Association.

Treasurer

Ashish Rakheja, B.E., M.Tech, Fellow ASHRAE, director/chief operating officer, AEON, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Current service: chair, Global Technical Interaction Committee; vice chair, ASHRAE Membership
Model Ad Hoc Committee; consultant, President-Elect Advisory Committee; member, Technology Council; member, Treasurer Advisory Committee; member, Finance Committee; member, Technical Committee 2.8, Building Environmental Impacts and Sustainability.

Vice Presidents

Society Vice Presidents sit on the Executive Committee and serve as chair and vice chair of councils. Vice Presidents also become eligible for future election as Treasurer and President-Elect.

The term of this office will be for 2 years (Society Year 2025-2026 and 2026-2027), per section 5.1 of the ASHRAE bylaws as amended in 2022.

Vice President

Trenton S. Hunt, Fellow ASHRAE, vice president and general manager for mechanical products, NSW, Midvale, Utah.

Current service: chair, Planning Committee; chair, Technical Committee 8.2, Vapor Compression Cooling and Heat Pump Chillers; regional alternate, Nominating Committee; provisional corresponding member, Technical Committee 8.1, Compressor Technology; corresponding member, Technical Committee 6.9, Thermal Storage.

The term of this office will be for 2 years (Society Year 2025-2026 and 2026-2027), per section 5.1 of the ASHRAE bylaws as amended in 2022.

Vice President

Andres J. Sepulveda, P.E., Fellow ASHRAE, chief executive officer, Commtech, Madrid, Spain.

Current service: vice chair, Planning Committee; member, Treasurer Advisory Committee; member, Guideline 1.6P Committee, Commissioning Data Centers; member, Standing Standards Project Committee 300, Application of The Commissioning Process to Building Operation and Maintenance Training.

The term of this office will be for 2 years (Society Year 2025-2026 and 2026-2027), per section 5.1 of the ASHRAE bylaws as amended in 2022.

Director and Regional Chair (DRC)

Each region is represented on the Board by a Director and Regional Chair. The Director and Regional Chair sits on the Board of Directors as an elected voting representative of their region, directs the operations for their region and can expect to be appointed to serve on one Council and one or more committees. They guide standing committee activities within Board-established policy and represent each committee at its respective council.

Region IV Director and Regional Chair

Heather Platt Gulledge, P.E., MBA, senior associate project manager, Dewberry, Summerfield, North Carolina.

Current service: project committee voting member, Standing Standard Project Committee 400, Risk Management for Building Water Systems; member, Standing Standard Project Committee 170, Ventilation of Health Care Facilities; region members council representative, Members Council; member, Technical Committee 7.3, Operation, Maintenance and Cost Management; member, Standing Standard Project Committee 62.1, Simplifies, Improves Calculations and Procedures, Guideline 42, Enhanced Indoor Air Quality in Commercial and Institutional Buildings; ASHRAE representative, Facility Guidelines Institute.

Region V Director and Regional Chair

Julia Timberman, P.E., sales engineer, Air Control Products, Columbus, Ohio.

Current service: chair, Technical Committee 1.7, Business, Management & General Legal Education; region members council representative, Members Council; member, Roundtable Reports Review Committee.

Region VI Director and Regional Chair

Maggie Moninski, P.E., LEED AP, BD+C, senior mechanical engineer, SINGH & Associates, Chicago, Illinois.

Current service: chair, Conferences and Expositions Committee; non-voting member, Joint Expo Policy Committee; region members council representative, Members Council.

Region XII Director and Regional Chair

Jason Alphonso, P.E., OPMP, PMP, principal/owner, Z Service Group, Winter Park, Florida.

Current service: vice chair, Development Committee; ASHRAE representative, National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying; member, ASHRAE Membership Model Ad Hoc.

Region XIII Director and Regional Chair

Ching Loon Ong, P.E., CMVP, Hon Fellow AFEO, managing director, Confreth (M) SDN BHD, Subang, Jaya, Malaysia.

Current service: region members council representative, Members Council.

Region XV Director and Regional Chair

Pankaj Dharkar, Fellow ASHRAE, president, Pankaj Dharkar & Associates, Ahmedabad, India.

Current service: corresponding member, Technical Committee 9.12, Tall Buildings.

Directors-at-Large

The nine Directors-at-Large (DALs) represent the technology interest of the Society. They assist in the guidance and management of councils and committees. Three DALs are elected each Society year.

Director-at-Large

Steve Kujak, director of next generation refrigerant research, Trane Technologies, Brownsville, Minnesota.

Current service: vice chair, Technical Committee 3.4, Lubrication; corresponding member, Technical Committee 3.1, Refrigerants and Secondary Coolants; corresponding member, Technical Committee 3.2, Refrigerants System Chemistry and Contaminant Control; Standing Standards Project Committee 34, Designation and Safety Classifications of Refrigerants.

Director-at-Large

Daniel H. Nall, P.E., BEMP, HBDP, Fellow Life Member ASHRAE, FAIA, LEED Fellow, vice president, Daniel Nall, Consultant, LLC, Princeton, New Jersey.

Current service: non-voting member, Standard Project Committee 242P, Standard Method for Calculation of Building Operational Greenhouse Gas Emissions; non-voting member, Standard Project Committee 227, Passive Building Design Standard; corresponding member, Technical Committee 6.5, Radiant Heating and Cooling; corresponding member, Technical Committee 4.7, Energy Calculations; member, Standard Project Committee 240, Evaluating Greenhouse Gas (GHG) and Carbon Emissions in Building Design, Construction and Operation.

Director-at-Large

Michael A. Pouchak, P.E., Fellow ASHRAE, principal development engineer, Honeywell, St. Anthony, Minnesota.

Current service: member, Residential Buildings Committee; corresponding member, Technical Committee 1.4, Control Theory and Applications; corresponding member, Technical Committee 1.5, Emerging Computing Applications; member, Standard Guideline Project Committee 36, Best in Class HVAC Control Sequences; member, Technology Advisory Committee, Multidisciplinary Task Group, Artificial Intelligence.