Michael Purol
President of Tri-State Operations
Professional Engineer
After experience as a managing partner in a small Civil Engineering firm, Michael joined PSBA in 2009. His interests and qualifications include:
- Road and Highway Design
- Geometric Design
- Structural Engineering
- Industrial Design
- Site Design
- Water System Design
- Waste Water System Design
- Water and Sewer Main Design
- Storm Water Management
- Project Management
Michael is also the Vice President of the Hannibal, Missouri office. Michael has experience working with MoDOT, FHWA, CDBG, Regional Council of Government, USDA, DNR, Corps of Engineers, NRCS, Municipal and County Governments.
Professional Engineer – IL, MO, IA
B.S. in Civil Engineering, Univ. Missouri at Rolla – 2002
Charles Bach
Vice President of Tri-State Operations
Professional Engineer, Structural Engineer
Charlie joined PSBA in 1973 after serving as Base Civil Engineer at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. His interests and specialties include:
- Road and Highway Design
- Bridge Design
- Water System Design
- Sewer System Design
- Water and Sewer Main Design
- Drainage Structure Design
- Water District Consultant
- Site Design
- Project Management
Professional Engineer – IL, MO, IA, KS
Structural Engineer – IL
M.S. in Civil Engineering, Univ. Missouri at Rolla – 1970
B.S. in Civil Engineering, Univ. Missouri at Rolla – 1968
Patrick Poepping
Advisor to the Board of Directors
Professional Engineer, Registered Land Surveyor, Registered Landscape Architect
Pat is a founder of PSBA. He is experienced in Land Surveying and general Civil Engineering work. His special interests include:
- Transportation Studies
- Road and Highway Design
- Municipal Engineering
- Sewer Main Design
- Water Main Design
- Mine Reclamation
- Park Design
- Land Surveying
- Geographic Information Systems
- Project Management
He is one of the founding members of the Tri-State Development Summit which encourages coordinated efforts to further opportunities and infrastructure development in Western Illinois, Northeast Missouri and Southeast Iowa. He continues to serve on the Summit’s Steering Committee.
Professional Engineer – IL, MO, IA
Registered Land Surveyor – IL, MO, IA
Registered Landscape Architect – IL
B. S. in Civil Engineering Univ. of Missouri – Rolla 1965
Iqbal Anwar
Vice Chairman, COO and CFO
MBA
Iqbal Anwar joined PSBA in June of 2018. Mr. Anwar is an automotive industry veteran with 20 years experience. Most recently, Mr. Anwar lead the Global Truck Divisions at Navistar Inc., launching Class 5-8 trucks for the Mexico, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand markets. Mr. Anwar also lead the after-treatment group at Navistar Inc. for 11L, 13L and 15L diesel engines to meet emission requirements.
M.B.A., Depaul University
M.E. in Engine Systems, University of Wisconsin – Madison
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Wayne State University
Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Ali Ahmed
Chairman, CEO
Enterprise Architect, Infrastructure Architect
Ali Ahmed joined PSBA in June of 2018. Mr. Ahmed is an expert in organizational management, corporate governance and technology operations management.
His extensive experience in Information Technology encompass the following areas:
- Government Projects including GSA, U.S. Army and U.S. Navy
- Architect, Design and Implement Database Infrastructure for the Illinois Vehicle Emission Control System
- Data center migration and administration
- Database, Data warehouse, Data mart and ERP
- IT Infrastructure, Enterprise architecture
- Oracle, SAP, SQL, RDBMS, Storage subsystems
- Unix, Linus, LAN and WAN, Cloud technology
- Oracle appliance, Big data
- All phases of system development life cycle
M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology – Chicago, Illinois
B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology – Chicago, Illinois
