Goodbye 2025, Hello 2026

To close out 2025 and celebrate the dedication behind a remarkable year, SPP gathered for its annual Holiday and Employee Award Ceremony in December. This special event honored the hard work, commitment and impact of our team, highlighting outstanding employees through several distinguished awards including the Value, Improvement and Performance (VIP) Award, the President's Awards, President's Team Recognition and the John Marschewski Leadership Award. As we celebrate these achievements, we look forward to a innovative and exciting 2026!

The Value, Improvement and Performance award, or VIP award as it's commonly referred to, is given to employees and teams that have identified, implemented and documented an opportunity to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of an individual, team or department work processes, resulting in a qualitative or quantitative benefit for the organization. Congratulations to the following:

• Cindy Goodwin

• Dianne Branch

• Marie Gieringer

• Zeynep Vural

• Ross Patel

• Margaret Quispe

• Brian Caserta

• Brian Strickland

• Jeremy Kuang-Nguyen

The President's Award and the President's Team Award are given to employees who exemplify the mission, emphasizing the importance of working together to boldly lead the industry.  Congratulations to the following:

President's Award:

• Katherine Rogers

• Kelsey Allen

• Andy Barton

• Maurisa Hughes

• Greg Lampley

• Danielle Lorenz

• John O'Dell

• Will Sayers

• Mostafa Sedighizadeh

• Kyle Vaughan

• Adam Bragg

• Geoff Lomax

• Dave McMartin

• Timothy Drennan

• Renee McMillen

• Lindsey Flowers

• Tim Phillips

• Josh Canida

• Ty Ebsen

• Jordan Boehmer

• Caleb Dather

• Liz Gephardt

• Jonathan Hathhorn

• Michael McCann

• Cristian Navarrete-Montejo

• Jason Bulloch

• Michael Daly

• Heather High

• John Gunter

• Cole King

• Connor Massery

• Jeffrey Wang

• Christine Dillard

• Adriane Barnes

• Jordan Foster

• Lance Reaves

President's Team Award:

Project Vanguard

• Caroline Chapman

• Charles Locke

• Charlton Hill

• Chris Nolen

• Daniel Baker

• Emon Mahony

• Erin Cathey

• Jonathan Hathhorn

• Justin Hinton

• Mostafa Sedighizadeh

• Natasha Henderson

• Yasser Bahbaz

• Seth Mayfield

• Steve Davis

• Tessie Kentner

• Wendy Weaver

• Jason Davis

• Jennifer Swierczek

• Russell Carey

• Steve Purdy

• Eric Henderson

• Derek  Wingfield

Project Meridian/ITP

• Russell Carey

• Kirk Hall

• Brooke Keene

• Greg Lampley

• Maurisa Hughes

• Kyle Vaughan

• Zach Sabey

• Hugh Benfer

• Josh Pilgrim

• Adam Bell

• Chris Davis

• Austin Baccus

• Nikki Roberts

• Don Frerking

• Gayle Freier

• Derek Wingfield

• Dee Isbell

• Ahmed Alazzawi

• Colton Stanton

• Danielle Lorenz

• Seth Blomeley

• PJ Welch

• Lottie Jones

• Ben Bright

• Drake Hill

Markets+

• Jim Gonzalez

• Carrie Dixon

• Gentry Crowson

• Carman Ruder

• Kelli Schermerhorn

• Luke Incorvaia

• Clint Savoy

• Aaron Shipley

• Gina Gargano-Amari

• Meghan Sever

• Adriane Barnes

• Chris Nolen

• Rachel Kane

• Christine Dillard

• Emon Mahony

• Marie Gieringer

• Zeynep Vural

• Dianne Branch

The John Marschewski Leadership Award is given to the individual who best exhibits excellence in leadership and promotes SPP's value proposition. Congratulations to Annette Jackson, the winner of the 2025 Marschewski Award. Special recognition also went to the two runners up, Sunny Raheem and Erin Cathey.