2024 National Council Election

National Council is Triangle’s all-volunteer board of directors consisting of the President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, six alumni Councilmen, one active Councilman, and the Past President.  The Secretary, Treasurer, and Active Councilman positions are appointed annually.  The President and Vice President are elected for one-year terms and three Councilmen are elected each year for two-year terms. Occasionally, there is a Councilman elected for one year to complete the term of a previous Councilman.

Below are the nominated candidate’s biographies.  Once you feel comfortable placing your vote you may do so by completing and submitting the form below.  If you would like to vote via paper ballot, please contact Triangle Fraternity Headquarters at (317) 837-9640 or via email to hq@triangle.org. 

Please Note: Online voting closes July 15  at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time.

Nominated for President | Ryan Sunyak tol10

Employer:  General Electric

Goals for Triangle:
1.  Ensure that the priorities of our membership are engrained in the strategic plan, annual work plan, and council initiatives. Deliverables for the term include input into the staff work plan so that the required baseline data collection is accomplished, constituent discussions on fraternity experience/expectations/value, and parsing the results of feedback to develop a representative voice for each constituent group.  The end objective is to better understand what each constituent group defines as success measures and the critical questions asked of each so that strategy, work plans, and initiatives can be weighed against it.

2.  Use the position to improve council engagement and throughput. I believe that the most direct method for engagement on this type of board is active committees.  So, I plan to collaborate with the President so that I can take a more active role in improving committee management while he focuses more time on strategic direction.  This alleviates the current issue with many committees that little management occurs outside of council meetings so inaction lingers.  Deliverables for the term are ensuring that all committees have goals, rosters, and recurring meetings with set agendas.

3.  Initiate a value analysis for NIC membership options with council and immediate fraternity family during this term. This is a necessity so that a future membership decision can be grounded in logic and an intentional choice rather than a reaction to negative emotion in the changing fraternal landscape.  The deliverable for this term is (1) development of a plan or decision tree with staff to assess NIC membership at critical milestones, (2) continued discussion with similarly positioned fraternities, (3) execution of targeted discussions with key active and alumni audiences to assess the temperature of the membership on this subject.

Nominated for Vice President | Pete Satre os89

Pete Satre was initiated into the Ohio State chapter in 1989, where he went on to in serve multiple officer positions, including chapter vice-president. Upon returning to the Columbus area in 2000, Pete served on the chapter alumni board and as an active adviser. He was elected to serve on National Council in 2017. He currently serves as chairman of the Communications Committee and is a member of the Finance Committee.

Brother Satre graduated from Ohio State, earning a B.S in Metallurgical Engineering. He was employed by Ford Motor Company in Cleveland, OH for 7 years before joining Allied Mineral Products, Inc. in 2000. His current position is Manager of Corporate Engineering.

He and his wife Maria live in Columbus, Ohio. They have 3 children.

Nominated for Councilman (2 yr. term) | Kevin Fong ucla84

Kevin Fong was initiated into Triangle at the UCLA Chapter in 1984 and served as Active Organization President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer before graduating with a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering. In 1994, he created Triangle Fraternity’s first web page and was also appointed National Historian, a position he continues to hold today. He previously served on National Council from 1997 to 2016, including 15 years as National Secretary. He received the Triangle Service Key in 2003.

Kevin hopes to use his experience and skills to serve as a knowledge resource for the Triangle family, help keep the leadership accountable to the membership, and offer illumination to chapters and members on their individual journeys. He is proud to show by his presence that Triangle welcomes and supports its members who are part of the LGBTQ community.

He lives in New York City and works as a Systems Administrator for Omnicom Health Group, a marketing and communications agency.

Nominated for Councilman (2 yr. term) | Bob Goehring is76

Education:  Iowa State University, BSCE 1978, MSCE 1981 Co-Major in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering.  Rollins College – The Crummer Graduate School of Business, 1989 (The Management Program)

Employer:  ECS Southeast, LLP

Occupation/Position:  Consulting Engineer, Chief Engineer, Executive Vice President

Goals for Triangle:  Serve on the National Council and help anyway I can to support the active chapters and enhance brotherhood within the alumni.  Through recent experience as a chapter adviser for the GA Tech Colony and extensive experience leading both for-profit business groups and various non-profit groups I hope to offer a slightly different perspective and add value.

Nominated for Councilman (2 yr. term) | Stuart Masuda uci07

Stuart first became involved with Triangle in Winter 2007 helping to establish Triangle as an interest group at UCI. Following official colonization in Fall 2007, he was initiated as a founding father of the UCI colony that same quarter. He served as the colony’s first Internal Vice President before graduating in Spring 2008.

After graduation, he joined the organizing effort to build an alumni board and advisory team. As Alumni Secretary, he continued supporting the active organization as an advisor, all the way through to the formal installation of the UCI Chapter in Fall 2012.

Stuart has a B.S. in Chemistry. He is currently employed in the Quality Control Lab at Nitto Avecia Pharma Services in Irvine, California.

The Triangle Building & Housing Corporation’s Leadership Team is an all-volunteer board of directors, consisting of a chairman, secretary/treasurer, assistant secretary, and two directors. Members of the Fraternity also have the opportunity to elect a Director for the Triangle Building & Housing Corporation. Director terms last for five years. This year the elected Director would begin his term July 1, 2024. The five-year term would conclude June 30, 2029.

Nominated for Director | Richard Beaubien mich64

Richard Beaubien is Managing Director at Beaubien Engineering.  He was previously Transportation Department Head at Hubbell, Roth & Clark Consulting Engineers for more than 20 years.  He received bachelors and masters degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan.  His employment experience includes five years as a Highway Engineer with the Federal Highway Administration and fourteen years as the Transportation Department Head for the City of Troy, Michigan. 

He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Florida, and California.  He has been certified as a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer and a Road Safety Professional by the Transportation Certification Board in Washington, DC.  He is a Past International President of the Institute of Transportation Engineers.  He is a received the Institute’s Marsh Award for Distinguished Service.

He is a Past President of the Intelligent Transportation Society of Michigan, and he received their Outstand Service Award.  He chairs the Southeast Michigan Regional Transportation Operations Coordinating Committee.

His Triangle experience includes service as undergraduate and alumni President at the Michigan Chapter.  He has served on National Council, and as Triangle National President.  He has been awarded the Triangle Service Key.  He has served on the Triangle Building and Loan Fund, and he currently serves as Chairman of the Triangle Building and Housing Corporation.