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The Building Construction Program in the College of Architecture is pleased to host Gregory Balestrero, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Project Management Institute, who will speak to the Georgia Tech community at 6 p.m. Nov. 23, 2009 as part of the Hirsch Family Distinguished Lecture Series. His lecture, on project management, will be held in Room 258 of the West Architecture Building on Georgia Tech’s campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Fifty years of progress in construction show that there's still plenty of room for innovation in this oldest of projectized activities. Project management as a formal discipline owes much to that progress: it was 40 years ago this fall that PMI's formation was announced at a Georgia Tech symposium. Mr. Balestrero, a GT alumnus himself, will describe how project management has flourished in areas far from its "hard hat" origins -- but keeps finding many of its newest ideas, as well as its toughest challenges, in construction.
Mr. Balestrero joined PMI in 2002 with nearly 30 years experience in executive-level association management. An industrial engineer by training, Mr. Balestrero has extensive experience overseeing administrative, financial and internal affairs for professional associations. Under
his leadership, PMI membership has tripled in size with members in 175 countries. More than 275,000 practitioners have earned PMI credentials in project and program management. From 1994-2002, he served as executive director of the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI), an organization of construction professionals in non-residential building construction, based in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. He previously held the position of executive director at the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Mr. Balestrero served as the 2003-2004 Board Chairman of the Greater Washington (District of Columbia, USA) Society of Association Executives (GWSAE) and an active member and former president of the Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives (CESSE). Mr. Balestrero
also is a member of the Committee of 100 of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He is a current member of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), where he served on the Board of Directors for ASAE’s Center for Association Leadership (CAL) through 2006; the Institute of
Industrial Engineers (IIE); and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He is also a member of The Thought Leadership Advisory Council for the CAL.
Project Management Institute (PMI.org) is the leading advocate for the project management profession globally. Founded in 1969, PMI has nearly 500,000 members and credential holders in 175 countries. PMI’s Project Management Professional (PMP®) credential is recognized as the only globally-transferrable credential in project management.
