DeNichilo

Nicholas M. (Nick) DeNichilo is president and CEO of Mott MacDonald. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the Newark College of Engineering and a master’s in civil engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has guided his company through an extraordinary period of growth and profitability.

Nick helped lead Hatch Matt MacDonald, which has now split into Hatch and Mott McDonald, to numerous awards for high-profile projects such as the Calgary West Light Rail Transit Line, the Sea-to-Sky Highway Improvement, and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. As a practicing engineer specializing in water and wastewater, he served as project manager for numerous projects in New Jersey and elsewhere.

He is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He also is the recipient of an American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) OPAL Award for lifetime achievement in leadership as well as the ASCE Parcel-Sverdrup Civil Engineering Management Award, among many honors.

Nick and Linda have four sons, all married, and grandchildren as well. He enjoys cooking, reading, travel, golf, relaxing at the beach house, New York Giants football, and New York Yankees baseball.