Sheila Manek

Sheila Manek is a Senior Vice President and  State, Local, Tribal & Territorial (SLTT) Market Director for the Mitigation, Environmental, Response, Recovery & Resiliency (MER3) business vertical, which brings together Tidal Basin Group, MLU Services and Michael Baker’s Emergency Management and Response professionals into a single, united team focused on end-to-end contingency operations and resilience solutions.

She brings over 15 years of experience in federal, state and local program management, with a focus on large-scale federally funded grant programs, executive management, design engineering and project management. Ms. Manek has experience driving value-adding programs to fuel growth, competitive advantage and transformative change for many industries, including disaster recovery, energy and utilities.

After joining Tidal Basin, Ms. Manek oversaw and grew the Housing, Community Development and Infrastructure business unit, where she led disaster recovery initiatives, strategic planning, program management and business development execution. Under her direction, Tidal Basin expanded its reach into opportunities related to several large-scale, federally funded programs, including housing, CDBG-DR/Mitigation, case management and infrastructure programs.

Before joining Tidal Basin, she was a director at a global engineering firm managing housing and community development programs with clients such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and HUD. She also oversaw a portfolio of projects for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection. Her previous work also included practicing engineering and managing large-scale infrastructure and capital programs at other major engineering firms in the energy and utility sectors, in prior roles such as senior program manager, research and development engineer, design engineer and intellectual property engineer.