Aine Marie Brazil
Managing Principal
Thornton Tomasetti
As one of 11 managing principals of Thornton Tomasetti, Inc., Aine Brazil helps guide the New York-based international engineering firm of 650 employees in the design of high-rise office and residential buildings, hotels, hospitals and other projects. After 30 years in this male-dominated field, Brazil's accomplishments include leading the design of several Times Square properties, all totaling over three million square feet.
She is also responsible for the 975-foot-tall Comcast Tower in Philadelphia and the tallest building in New Jersey.
Brazil, who was born in Galway City, earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from the University College Galway and the Imperial College London, respectively.
She has received numerous honors over the years, including the Women Executives in Real Estate New York (WX) Woman of the Year Award in 2006.
She was named the Girls Inc. honoree 2008, the Concrete Industry Board Honoree 2007 and was featured in Crain's New York Business 100 Most Influential Women in Business.
Brazil is a member of the Irish-style Links at Union Vale Golf Course in Dutchess County, New York.
Of her Irish heritage, she says, "Growing up in Ireland and then making my home in New York for the last 26 years has given me the best of both worlds.
"My Irish upbringing instilled in me appreciation for opportunities given to me, first by my parents whose lives' focus was on educating their children to give us a better life, and then for the opportunities provided to me here in New York to pursue the career I love and make contributions to my adopted city."
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