2026 Conference Committee
Gregory Devlin
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Mary Ellen Holvey
Mary Ellen Holvey, CIH, is the founder and owner of ME Holvey Consulting. With over 30 years of experience as a Certified Industrial Hygienist, she has built a career helping industrial, commercial, and residential clients identify, evaluate, and manage environmental health and safety risks. Her expertise spans indoor air quality assessments, chemical hazard evaluations, noise monitoring, microbial investigations, environmental contaminant analysis, safety data sheet authoring, and regulatory health and safety compliance.
Laurel Ferguson
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Jenna Mausolf
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Ryan Carney
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Phil is the Director of Safety for Power & Construction Group, Inc. and has overseen Utility Construction and Maintenance Safety Operations at the Contractor level for most of his 20+ years in the utility and construction sectors. With roots at the field level, Phil takes a “people approach” to how he leads the safety management system within P&CG, focusing on behaviors and interactions at work locations with all levels of company personnel. Phil attended his first conference in 2019 and has been a committee member for the past 2 years.
Joseph Saurini
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Mike Terzo Jr.
Mike is an Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) professional and emergency services leader with over a decade of corporate safety management and years of hands-on experience in the fire service. Currently serving as an EHS Specialist at a local University & Medical Center, he blends technical compliance expertise with field-tested crisis leadership to protect personnel and foster resilient safety cultures.
He previously was an EHS Manager in the optics manufacturing sector, where he designed robust safety programs for complex technical environments. His foundational expertise is backed by a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sustainability, Health, and Safety from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and recognized national credentials, including the Associate Safety Professional (ASP) certification.
A proven leader in emergency response, Mike is a former Assistant Fire Chief and a current member of the Monroe County Fire Bureau Special Operations Unit. Additionally, he has spent the past eight years training first responders as a NYS and Monroe County Fire Instructor, dedicated to passing on critical safety and rescue skills to the next generation.
Ken Peck
Steve Fess, CIH, CSP, SMP, CSC (NYSDOL), FAIHA
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Steve Fess is an Environmental Safety & Health professional with over 46 years’ EH&S experience (including 38 years at the Xerox Corporation in numerous roles managing EH&S programs and supporting Corporate R&D, office equipment manufacturing, site facilities & maintenance, as contractor Safety program manager, chemical and photoreceptor manufacturing, and a Haz-Mat Team member). He currently works with numerous consulting firms, and as a part-time EH&S compliance consultant.
He is a member of the American Industrial Hygiene Association Construction and Safety Committees, past Chair of the AIHA Construction Committee (2012 / 2016) and was elected an AIHA Fellow in 2013. He is also the Past President of the Western New York Local Section-AIHA, a member of the Board of Directors of the Genesee Valley Safety Conference, Inc., the Program Committee for the GV&FLR EH&S PDC, and the Advisory Council for the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry - Dept. of Environmental Health Program Certification Committee.
Mary Ann Rall
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Sandi Benati
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Tyler Zavitz
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With over 40 years of expertise, Mr. Donofrio bridges the gap between private-sector manufacturing and federal oversight. Following two decades managing safety for Fortune 500 chemical facilities, he spent 20 years with OSHA as a highly decorated Compliance Officer and Award-winning Compliance Assistance Specialist for the New York City Region.
After conducting over 800 federal inspections, he founded PinPoint Safety Consulting. Leveraging unique regulatory insight and a "Safety as a Value" philosophy, he now provides elite consulting to help employers protect their greatest asset: their people.
Donna L. Lawrence, MS
Donna is Lead Clinical Industrial Hygienist for Finger Lakes Occupational Health Services (FLOHS), a University of Rochester Medical Center Program, and Member of the New York State, Department of Health, Occupational Health Clinic Network. FLOHS is dedicated to the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of occupational illness and injury. Donna has been with FLOHS for 25 years and has worked in the field of health and safety for 35 years. She began her career at Kodak testing environmental fate and effects of Kodak’s photographic chemicals and supported Optical and Electronic Product Divisions as a Health, Safety and Environmental Coordinator.
Donna works to promote worker health and safety by serving on the NYS DOH Silica Workgroup, Rochester’s Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning, Finger Lakes Coalition to Stop Lead Poisoning, Finger Lakes Coalition of Farmworker Serving Agencies, and U of R Environmental Health Sciences Center’s Community Advisory Board and Rochester Healthy Homes Partnership.