John Ings, PE is President & CEO of Beverly-based Meridian Associates, Inc. a site/civil design firm with integrated landscape architecture, land survey and geospatial services serving private clients and municipalities across the North Shore since 1990. John assumed the role of President in June of 2023 after serving as a firm vice president for five years. John is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the firm in partnership with Meridian’s leadership team and its Board of Directors, which John chairs. He is also responsible for integrated project
management across the firm’s technical specialty areas and client development. A professional engineer, John has managed hundreds of civil design projects for municipalities, developers, owners, architects, engineers, and contractors.
John received both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He lives with his wife and their four children in Wilmington. John is an active member of the North Shore Chamber of Commerce, American Society of Civil Engineers, Massachusetts Association of Land Surveyors and Civil Engineers, Boston Society of Civil Engineers, and the Structural Engineering Institute. An avid outdoorsman, John loves spending his free time in nature, hunting and fishing with his children.