SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT — The employee owners of PC Construction announce that Maureen Usifer of Colchester, Vermont, has been elected to the company’s six-member Board of Directors. Usifer is the first woman to join the board. Usifer joins a growing number of women in leadership at the South Burlington-based construction company.

“I’m incredibly honored to be joining the PC Construction team,” Usifer said. “This company has an impressive history, and an equally impressive resume of important and award-winning work. I’m eager to leverage my finance background to help the board to position PC for an exciting future.”

Usifer has more than 30 years of experience in the financial sector. She is a former Chief Financial Officer of Seventh Generation and was a longtime Vice President of Investor Relations for Church & Dwight, a consumer products company.

She currently serves on the boards of BlackRock Capital Investment Corporation, Liberty All-Star Funds, and Healthy Living Markets. She was also appointed by Governor Phil Scott in 2017 to Vermont’s Green Mountain Care Board, which oversees and approves all budgets, insurance rates, and capital expenditures for hospitals in the state, and is actively engaged in health care reform.

“As more women join the construction industry, we felt it was important that our leadership reflect and represent that increasingly diverse workforce," said Jay Fayette, PC President and CEO. "Maureen comes to us with an incredible background in finance and industry that will help us make smart investments."

Usifer is a graduate of St. Michael’s College in Winooski, and she earned her Master of Business Administration in finance from Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York.