Demauris Terry
President
Demauris Terry serves as the Executive Vice President/COO for BA, Inc., a certified minority-owned civil engineering firm, and brings more than 20 years of business operations experience with a deep understanding of agency policies and requirements. He has strong leadership skills to catalyze, implement and lead the company’s strategic agenda. For the past 10 years, he has successfully run and operated the day-to-day activities of one of the top minority-owned, small business civil engineering & construction firms in the greater Los Angeles and Phoenix metropolitan areas.
Edna Stanley
1st Vice President
Edna Stanley is the Vice President of Light Rail Operations at Sacramento Regional Transit District. She oversees day-to-day transportation responsibilities, and critical business and support functions, including training. Edna also directs the development of service delivery plans to efficiently manage SacRT’s light rail services including daily operations, maintenance, and the Operations Control Center.
Shannon Lawrence
2nd Vice President
Prior to joining Rohadfox Construction Control Services, Shannon was the Inclusion and Diversity Manager at Balfour Beatty. He played an integral role in securing contracts and ensuring small businesses were included in major construction projects in the Los Angeles market. This included the Automated People Mover at the Los Angeles International Airport. Although relatively new to the industry, Shannon quickly made a name for himself, and earned a reputation as a trusted advocate for small businesses, and minority and women-owned firms.
Vayakone Terry
SECRETARY
Vayakone Terry is the Director of Corporate Development & Strategy for Morgner Construction Management who is responsible for developing and implementing programs that support the personal and professional growth of each employee and overall company goals and mission.
Janayre Bertrand
TREASURER
Janayre Bertrand is a Transit Operations Supervisor at Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority, where she maintains training efficiency and effectiveness by implementing programs and strategies for curriculum design improvement.
Stepfone Montgomery
Immediate Past President
Stepfone Montgomery is the Founder and CEO of BZ Connects Inc, is a business relationship firm, helping small businesses and large corporations to collaborate on architectural engineering, construction projects.