William Thomsen, PE
As President & CEO, Chairman of the Board, and principal owner of Urban Engineers of New York, D.P.C (UrbanNY) and Urban Global Solutions, Inc. (UrbanGlobal), William T. Thomsen, P.E. directly oversees our Company’s growth and operations. He served in this role for more than a decade. He serves as the principal in charge and is recognized nationwide as an expert in significant national transportation initiatives. In this capacity, he oversees all key public transit, national consulting, and Mega Project program management services. William has played a key role in the growth of the firm’s Program Management Oversight practice and is a national leader in the management of large-scale projects, including New York City’s high-profile One World Trade Center, LA Metro, East Side Access, and Second Avenue Subway. The latter two are the largest public works projects ever built in America. A registered Professional Engineer in four states, his extensive experience encompasses the management and engineering of major infrastructure projects including tunnels, railways, and transportation systems. He has been with Urban for more than 40 years. William is inspired by his personal hero, his father, a construction company president. He believes determination to be a key quality of leadership and subscribes to his personal motto of “never give up”. William actively gives back and serves on numerous national societies, committees, and boards, including The Engineers Club of Philadelphia, the Construction Management Association of America, Transportation Research Board, Civil Engineering Advisory Board, Society of American Military Engineers, New York Building Congress, American Public Transportation Association (APTA), and American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). A former adjunct professor for Temple University, he remains active in Philadelphia and other academic and civic activities in Tredyffrin Township, Jenkins Arboretum and his local church, he also has served on the executive committee of APTA and on the National Board, he is past chairperson of the APTA Capital Projects national committee on design and construction and an active leader for more than a decade. He is a past president of ASCE, Engineer-ofthe year and Transportation Engineer of the Year in Philadelphia in 1993, more recently he was the Delaware Valleys Engineer of the Year among all engineering societies. He earned his bachelor's degree in civil/environmental engineering from Clarkson University and master's degree in engineering management from Drexel University. When William is not traveling nationally for Urban, he enjoys not taking himself ‘too seriously’ and spending time with his wife Kim at the beach, running family marathons, playing golf and playing pond hockey with his son and friends.