EBCNE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate Vice President
- Member of the Executive Committee
Aaron is an environmental planning and resilience specialist with over 20 years of experience. He serves as AECOM's Market Sector Lead for Climate Change and ESG Services in the Northeast. He is also a Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) certified provider, serves on the Environmental Business Council of New England's Board of Directors, and was a founding Steering Committee member for the Climate Adaptation Form, which is a collaboration between the Environmental Business Council of New England and the UMass Boston Sustainable Solutions Lab. In his role at AECOM, Aaron coordinates with clients and technical staff across business lines to integrate climate change and resilience considerations and solutions into infrastructure and planning projects for municipal, state, and federal clients.
Job Titles:
- Member of Committee
- Wastewater Operator & DEI Coordinator / Weston & Sampson
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Principal
- Project Manager
- Principal Water Resources Engineer
Andrea is a Principal water resources engineer with extensive experience leading projects of varying size, type, scope, and complexity. Her technical specialties include stormwater management system design, surface water hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, and National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) compliance. Andrea has considerable experience in green stormwater infrastructure and low impact development from project planning and permitting to life-cycle costing, construction oversight, monitoring, and maintenance.
Andrea is a highly experienced project manager responsible for overseeing staff, reviewing project deliverables, controlling budget and schedule, and managing client relationships for dozens of projects annually. She is skilled at communicating complex concepts to a variety of audiences both in verbal and in written form. Andrea has authored and provided senior review of hundreds of technical reports, journal manuscripts, guidance documents, and fact sheets.
Andrea has presented on water resources and stormwater-related topics at over 30 conferences and workshops nationwide, including the NEIWPCC Annual NPS Conference, IECA's Environmental Connection Conference, EWRI International Low Impact Development Conference, and NEWEA Annual Conference. She is also a technical peer reviewer for the Journal of Irrigation and Drainage and the Journal of Environmental Engineering.
Andrea is a Registered ProfessionalEngineer in MA and NY a Certified Professional in Erosion and Sediment Control and a Certified Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Provider.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- Member of the Executive Committee
- President
- Member of the New England Women
- President and Executive Director / Environmental Business Council of New England, Inc.
Ann Gisinger is the President and Executive Director of the Environmental Business Council of New England (EBC), a nonprofit membership organization established to support and foster the development of the environmental and energy industries in New England. An experienced nonprofit manager, Ann's proven leadership in programming and membership supports the growth and success of the EBC.
Ann Gisinger (she/her/hers) is the President and Executive Director of the Environmental Business Council of New England (EBC), a nonprofit membership organization established to support and foster the development of the environmental and energy industries in New England. An experienced nonprofit executive, Ann's proven leadership in programming and membership supports the growth and success of the EBC.
Ann's previous work includes place-based education, program development and management, and visitor services with The Trustees of Reservations. She received her Master of Science degree in Biology as well as a Certificate in Management of Community Organizations from Tufts University in Medford, MA and her Bachelor of Science degree in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology from the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY.
Outside of EBC, Ann is a member of the New England Women in Energy and the Environment and a member and former Board President of the Massachusetts Environmental Education Society. She volunteers her time as a New Mom Mentor with Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Strategic Planning Committee
- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer / Mabbett & Associates, Inc.
- Chairman, CEO and Founder of Mabbett & Associates, Inc
- Founder and Chairman of Mabbett & Associates Ltd
- President of Veterans Business Supply, Inc
Arthur N. Mabbett is the Chairman, CEO and founder of Mabbett & Associates, Inc. (Mabbett®), Consultants, Engineers and Program Managers, Bedford, Massachusetts, an internationally recognized and award-winning firm specializing in integrated architectural-engineering, and environmental, health and safety consulting and engineering services to manufacturing and commercial industry, institutions and Federal, state and local public agencies. Mabbett is a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs verified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business. Mabbett has regional offices in Rhode Island, New Jersey and Virginia and was established in 1980. Mabbett was recognized as one of the fastest growing private companies in the USA by Inc. magazine in 2010, 2011 and 2012 and by the Zweig Letter as one of the fastest growing architectural, engineering and environmental Hot Firms in North America in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. In 2012 Mabbett was also recognized by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) with its Veteran Champion Award for both Massachusetts and New England and in 2015 as the SBA Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year in Region 1.
Mr. Mabbett is also the founder and Chairman of Mabbett & Associates Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland, a leading United Kingdom-European Union consultancy with regional offices in Rosyth (Edinburgh), Belfast, Inverness and a project office in Cardiff, Wales. Mabbett Ltd provides similar services to manufacturing and commercial industry, government agencies and municipal governments throughout the U.K, Europe and the Middle East and Caribbean. Mabbett Ltd was established in 1996.
Mr. Mabbett is also the President of Veterans Business Supply, Inc. (VBS) an online retailer of commercial, industrial, office-business, health and safety, and first aid supplies.
Mr. Mabbett holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts Boston and a Master of Science degree from Rutgers University. He is a Registered Professional Engineer; a Registered and Certified Environmental Health Scientist; a Certified Safety Professional; a Qualified Environmental Professional; and a Certified Hazard Control Manager. He served meritoriously in the U.S. Army as a Major, Environmental Science Officer; 6 years active duty and 13 years in the U.S. Army Reserve.
Mr. Mabbett has broad and multi-disciplinary experience in the environmental, health and safety fields. He is the author of numerous technical publications and is a regular featured speaker at various conferences and events. He is the founding President of the Environmental Business Council of New England and serves on several Boards in leadership positions to include: Boy Scouts of America, The Spirit of Adventure Council, British American Business Council of New England; and the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice President
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Executive Vice President / E. L. Harvey & Sons, Inc.
Ben Harvey is the Executive Vice President and one of the owners of E.L. Harvey & Sons, Inc. After graduating from Delaware Valley College with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1971, Ben moved into an active leadership role at E.L. Harvey & Sons. His duties within the company include negotiating the sales of recyclables to mills worldwide. He contracts with disposal sites for the safe and efficient transfer of waste materials. Ben is a superior administrator, providing leadership and motivation to the company's management team.
Ben is a well-respected and nationally recognized business leader and an authority in his industry. He has used his years of experience and wealth of knowledge in the industry to educate thousands of business and association leaders.
Ben brings his knowledge and know-how to many industry associations, including WasteCap of Massachusetts, MassRecycle, Detachable Container Association (DCA), National Recycling Coalition (NRC), Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI). He has presented to national forums at numerous WasteExpo and ISRI conventions. Ben is a very accomplished and highly recognized public speaker for the waste and recycling industries.
Ben also takes active leadership roles in many trade organizations and associations. He is a past president of the Eastern Paper Mills Association and the Waste Recyclers Council of NSWMA and currently holds leadership roles on the Board of Directors of MassRecycle and WasteCap of Massachusetts. He is President of the Paper Stock Industry, a chapter of the Institute of Scrap Recycling, as well as being on the Board of Governors of the Environmental Industries Association. He is on the Board of Directors ISRI and also on the Board of Directors of Detachable Container Association (DCA), he is vice president of this organization. Ben serves in many committees and task forces for the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Director of Energy Efficiency / TRC Companies, Inc.
- Director of Energy Efficiency With TRC Companies
- Member of Committee
Brenda Enos is a Director of Energy Efficiency with TRC Companies. She has extensive experience in managing environmental permitting, environmental compliance, and environmental management systems.
Prior to joining TRC, Enos worked for the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport). While at Massport she was assistant director of capital programs and environmental management which included developing, launching, and implementing Massport's Resiliency Program. Additionally, she initiated the development of Massport's Disaster Infrastructure Resiliency Planning Study, one of the first of its kind in the aviation industry. Enos was the Vice President of Environmental Management Systems for the Rhode Island Airport Corporation before joining Massport.
Enos is a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager and a Registered Environmental Manager. She received her MBA from Bryant University and her BA in Chemistry from Hiram College.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Strategic Planning Committee
- Vice Chair of the Executive Committee
- Eversource 's Vice President of Transmission Project Development
- Vice Chair - Strategic Planning
- Vice Chair - Strategic Planning - EBC Executive Committee
- Vice President, Sustainability & Environmental Affairs / Eversource Energy
- Vice President, Transmission Project Development, Siting & Project Services
Catherine Finneran is Eversource's Vice President of Transmission Project Development, Siting & Project Services. In this role, Catherine leads the development of Eversource's major projects, delivering important siting outcomes to enable a strong grid that can deliver clean energy and ensure resiliency and meet regional decarbonization goals. As part of this role she manages stakeholder interactions throughout project lifecycles.
Catherine has more than 25 years of experience in clean energy, environmental protection, and economic development. Prior to her current role, Catherine served as Vice President, Sustainability and Environmental Affairs at Eversource where she led cross-functional environmental and climate initiatives, including Eversource's industry-leading goal to become carbon neutral by 2030 and commitment to setting a Science Based Target. Under her leadership, Eversource consistently earned recognition for environmental and corporate sustainability.
Before joining Eversource, Catherine served as Senior Director of the Renewable Energy Generation Division at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, where she oversaw the design and implementation of programs to grow Massachusetts' clean energy market. She served as the Director of Clean Energy for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) overseeing clean energy efforts across air, water, and waste bureaus. She also served as the central point of contact in Massachusetts for brownfields redevelopment, working with municipalities and developers to access incentives and technical assistance to cleanup and redevelop contaminated sites. Early in her career, Catherine served as a municipal Development Manager and helped launch a non-profit community development corporation.
Catherine is Vice President for New England Women in Energy and the Environment (NEWIEE), an organization that cultivates leadership and professional development for women working in energy and environmental fields. She is Vice Chair of Strategic Planning for the Environmental Business Council of New England (EBC). She is a member of the Massachusetts Implementation Advisory Committee (IAC), which advises the state on climate issues. Catherine also serves as a member of the Connecticut Blue Plan Advisory Committee and the Massachusetts Zero Emissions Vehicle (ZEV) Commission.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Principal
Chad is Principal and CEO of SumCo Eco-Contracting, LLC ("SumCo Eco"), a self-performing heavy site civil construction firm. Founded by Chad and his brother Travis in 2006, the company has completed hundreds of environmental improvement projects across the Northeast including dam removals and rehabilitations; river, wetlands and marsh restorations; coastal resiliency and climate adaptation; site remediation and redevelopment; culverts, bridges and other infrastructure; invasive species management, landscaping and more. In his role as CEO, Chad continuously defines and advances the firm's ecological construction niche; has assembled and guides SumCo Eco's complementary construction leadership team in addressing the diverse ecological, environmental and infrastructure challenges posed by climate change, and collaborates with industry stakeholders to improve best practices in ecological construction. Chad is a scientist by education and training, having received his Master's degree in Conservation Biology and dual Bachelor's degrees in Geology and Biology from the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked "in the field" at project sites for nearly 20 years, and oversaw the development and installation of the firm's ecological construction and revegetation projects for over 10 years. Chad is an active member of and frequent presenter at the Society of Wetland Scientists, the Association of Massachusetts Wetland Scientists, and the Environmental Business Council of New England.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Senior Principal / GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc.
- Senior Principal With GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc
Chad W. Cox, P.E. is a Senior Principal with GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. Chad manages GZA's operations in Metro-Boston and currently is serving as the Managing Director on GZA's Board of Directors. He is a registered professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, specializing primarily in dam engineering including dam safety and design, dam decommissioning, hydroelectric project development, and construction engineering services. Chad has worked on numerous projects in New England and beyond, including the rehabilitation of the Upper Mystic Lake Dam, the Muddy River Flood Reduction Project, the Byron Weston Hydroelectric Project, and others. He has published papers on dam engineering with organizations including ASCE, the Association of State Dam Safety Officials, and the US Society on Dams. Chad was part of founding EBC's Dam Management Group and is still active with the Group. Chad has degrees in civil engineering from Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He began his engineering career with the Peace Corps, serving for over two years as a water supply engineer in Nepal. Chad is a native of Oklahoma but has lived in the Boston area for more than 20 years and now resides with his family in Brookline, MA.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- CEO / Normandeau Associates, Inc.
Normandeau's Chief Executive Officer Colonel (retired) Curt Thalken, PE has over 35 years of management, environmental consulting, engineering and permitting expertise. In his 10 years with Normandeau, COL Thalken has served in positions of increasing responsibility, including serving for the past several years as Chief Operating Officer.
Since joining Normandeau, Thalken has been responsible for overseeing company operations, including expansion of Normandeau's Federal and State Government portfolio, an increased presence in renewable energy markets, and has championed innovative technologies to address emerging environmental issues for our clients.
His experience with Normandeau includes extensive oversight of: energy transmission (Gas and electric) and power (including: nuclear, fossil fuel, hydro and other renewables) projects nationwide; Federal, State and Municipal environmental service contracts; and environmental compliance assistance for many private sector entities nationwide.
Prior to joining Normandeau, COL Thalken served on active duty in the U.S. Army as an engineer officer for over 25 years. His experience included working in both austere and developed environments, teaching in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point NY, and command of an Engineer Combat Battalion (Heavy) in Afghanistan. His military career culminated as Commander of the New England District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) responsible for all aspects of the Federal Government's engineering efforts and regulatory programs within New England.
His education includes a BS, in Chemistry from the United States Military Academy and MS, in Engineering Sciences, from Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering. He is a licensed professional engineer in the states of: NH, CT, and FL.
From 1997 through 2021 Mr. Moon served as the president and executive director of the Environmental Business Council of New England, the non-profit membership association representing environmental companies in the region. He currently serves as Chair of the EBC Advisory Council.
Background
Mr. Moon was the president of the consulting firm Longwood Environmental Management, Inc. located in Belmont, Massachusetts. Formed in 1987, this firm provided assistance with the development of environmental management and marketing programs to growing environmental companies.
With over forty years experience in the environmental field, Mr. Moon has gained extensive knowledge of issues relating to environmental management. He began his environmental career working for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Region 9 during the summer of 1972. In the Spring of 1974 after completing his MBA, Mr. Moon begin working at EPA Region 1 in Boston on policy and regulatory development issues and on the implementation of programs legislated by the Toxic Substance Control Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Next, while working for national waste management firms, Mr. Moon gained cutting edge experience working on private sector issues including environmental compliance, corporate development, facility siting, marketing of environmental services, and the management of multi-million dollar hazardous waste Superfund remediation projects.
In 1988, Mr. Moon initiated planning for a regional environmental conference and exposition - EnviroExpo (previously called the New England Environmental EXPO). This program grew into a major international environmental event, drawing over 5,000 regional, national and international environmental professionals and focused on major environmental issues of concern to business and government.
Mr. Moon was active in several organizations in addition to the EBC. He served on the Board of the Massachusetts Corporate Wetlands Restoration Program, the Environmental Technology Advisory Board of Jobs for Youth, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection Solid Waste Advisory Board, and the Board of Trustees of the Cambridge YMCA. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy.
In March 2022 Mr. Moon received an Environmental Business Journal Lifetime Achievement Award. In June 2022 Mr. Moon received the EBC Lifetime Achievement Award and the award category was re-named in his honor. It is now the EBC Daniel K. Moon Lifetime Achievement Award.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- CEO / Site Redevelopment Technologies, LLC
Mr. Peter has over 25 years of experience in the environmental industry. Currently he is President of Site Redevelopment Technologies, LLC. (SRT), a company engaged in purchasing environmentally distressed and underutilized properties for remediation and redevelopment. Past remediation experiences along with a productive working knowledge of environmental regulations provide ideal opportunities to succeed in some of the more difficult brownfield real estate projects. Initially restoring brownfields in December 2006, SRT is pursuing properties throughout the region and is currently involved in redeveloping many contaminated sites and providing new alternatives to environmental problems.
Previously he was CEO of United Retek Corp., responsible for many key brownfield redevelopments, which were facilitated by using innovative procedures to recycle hazardous soils and sediments. These new processing methods, with state and federal regulator approvals, provided for remediation of sites at greatly reduced cost. In many cases the cost reduction allowed for the redevelopment to become feasible and therefore create a productive property from a former abandoned, contaminated site.
As General Manager of Aggregate Industries, Mr. Peter began and developed the Soil Reclamation Division to recycle over two million tons of contaminated soil, most notably from Boston's Central Artery Project, during his tenure of eleven years. The Division grew to be a substantial profit center and integral part of the construction material concern while also responsible for Safety, Environmental Compliance and Real Estate Management for the company.
His career began at Marathon Oil Company/US Steel Corp., where he had a variety of engineering and management responsibilities. Mr. Peter holds a bachelor's degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a master's degree from Brown University. He is a member of the American Society for Testing and Materials, the American Chemical Society and is a Board Member of the Environmental Business Council of New England.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Principal and Global Director in Ramboll 's Boston
- Principal and Global Director, ESG Services
Dr. Alan Kao is a Principal and Global Director in Ramboll's Boston, Massachusetts office. He has more than 20 years of experience helping clients evaluate due diligence risks and opportunities in the areas of site contamination; environmental, health, safety, and product compliance; Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) management; and climate risk. Alan is also Ramboll's Global Service Line Leader for Compliance, Strategy, and Transaction Services, which includes services related to the acquisition, operation, growth, and sale of companies, properties, and assets.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors of NanoVapor Inc
- Technical Reviewer to Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
Most recently, Paul has been a member of the Board of Directors of NanoVapor Inc. He has also served as a Technical Advisor to Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, and currently serves as a Strategic Advisor to Environmental Business Council of New England. Paul is also on the Advisory Board for GreenChoice PBC, an early stage company, that rates food products for their environment and sustainability impacts, and shares this information online with potential retail customers.
Dr. Paul Fennelly was Senior Vice President, Global Director of Sales and Marketing for AECOM's Global Environment Business Line, which during his tenure, had $ 1 Billion in revenue and had more than 4,500 staff operating from 150 offices across North and South America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Paul retired from AECOM in 2015 and transitioned into a role consulting on business strategy for companies in the Environmental industry, including serving on the Board of Directors for emerging technology companies in the energy/environment interface, including NanoVapor Inc. and GreenChoice,PBC
The author of 50 scientific articles and presentations, Dr. Fennelly holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Brandeis University and a BS in Chemistry from Villanova University. AECOM received five 2012 Environmental Business Journal and Climate Change Business Journal Business Achievement Awards.
Paul has been a Technical Reviewer to Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, where he reviewed proposals for start up funding for new energy technology as part of their Incubator/Accelerator Program. Paul is also Strategic Advisor to the Environment Business Council of New England in a pro-bono capacity to assist the EBC to identify and focus on emerging environmental issues. In 2020, Paul received the very prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the Environment Business Journal for his extensive and wide ranging contributions and accomplishments in the Environmental Consulting and Engineering Business world.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Vice Chair of the Executive Committee
- Member of Committee
- Senior Vice President / Tetra Tech
- Vice Chair - Board Nomination
Mr. Ionata has more than 30 years of experience in the implementation of multidisciplinary projects from inception through environmental impact review, design, permitting and construction. He managed environmental review, permitting and construction compliance for two of the largest public infrastructure projects in the United States - the $15B Central Artery/Tunnel and the $3.5B Deer Island Wastewater Treatment Plant and Outfall. As a Senior Vice President of Tetra Tech, Mr. Ionata leads a multidisciplinary team that provides engineering and environmental services to private and public clients throughout New England. He is well-versed in fast-track and design-build delivery methods, having fulfilled leadership roles on the MBTA Greenbush Commuter Rail expansion, the MWRA Blue Hills Covered Storage project, the award-winning MassDOT 93 Fast 14 Bridge Replacement Project, and the ongoing Longfellow Bridge Restoration.
Mr. Ionata earned a B.S. in Natural Resources from the University of Rhode Island and an M.S. in Forest Science from the Yale University School of Forestry. He resides in Barrington, RI where he has served on the Conservation Commission for 15 years. Mr. Ionata received the Stephen B. Lewis Award for Service to the Environmental Industry and served as the Chairperson of EBC from 2009 through 2011.
Job Titles:
- Chief Strategy Officer
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Senior Vice President
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- CEO / Weston & Sampson
Frank is CEO of the firm, after serving for many years as Vice President and Discipline Leader for the firm's Environmental, Geotechnical, & Energy program. Frank has more than 30 years of experience in project management, climate resiliency design. environmental engineering, remediation system design, and hazardous waste site assessments.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of Committee
- Senior Legal Counsel / Enbridge, Inc.
Gary Davis joined the Spectra Energy legacy team in 2014, to provide legal counsel on environmental permitting and compliance, operational and right of way/real estate matters in connection with the delivery, operation and maintenance of natural gas pipeline facilities and services to end use customers.
Prior to joining Enbridge, Gary served in a variety of roles in the public and private sector where he worked on a broad range of legal services, including real estate and land use; regulatory and environmental compliance; construction; employment; and administrative law. Gary's experience in the public sector included several legal positions within Massachusetts' environmental agencies, including the General Counsel of the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, where he worked with the six environmental, natural resource and energy regulatory agencies, on energy and environmental matters. Gary received his B.S. and MBA from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and his Juris Doctorate from Northeastern University School of Law.
Job Titles:
- Principal Consultant for Spalding Environment
Curt Spalding is the Principal Consultant for Spalding Environment and Climate Strategies. Current consulting includes advising Safe Harbor Marinas (SHM) on the development of SHM's ESG commitment, with project leadership on coastal ecosystem resilience and stewardship. Other work includes supporting the transfer of a large brownfield parcel from the Navy to Portsmouth Marine Partners and continuing to support the activities of the Providence Resilience Partnership.
Curt recently served as the Professor of the Practice for the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. Research and advising students on urban resilience was my primary area of focus. Most significantly, he facilitated the creation of the Providence Resilience Partnership (PRP) and authored with Siddhi Nadkarni, Claire Bekker, and Devyn Collado-Nicol, "New England Coastal Cities: The Struggle for a Resilient Future", From Hurricanes to Epidemics, The Ocean's Evolving Impact on Human Health - Perspectives from the U.S. edited by Kevin Conrad, Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021, pgs. 39-58.
Hayden Adair (he/him/his) is an intern for the Environmental Business Council of New England. He is a junior at Cornell University double majoring in Applied Economics and Management & Environment and Sustainability. Hayden has experience in sustainability consulting, renewable energy, and market research. Hayden is excited to learn about the growing field of environmental businesses and assist EBC with their podcast.
Job Titles:
- Director of Programs and Membership
Jackson Bailey (he/him/his) is the Director of Programs and Membership for the Environmental Business Council of New England. Jackson joined the EBC in August 2017.
In this role, Jackson manages all aspects of EBC programming, including flagship networking events and conferences, as well as program development and management. Jackson also handles membership development for the organization. He plays an integral role in handling communications & marketing for EBC, and assists with operational goals.
Previously, Jackson interned with the non-profit Clean Production Action in Somerville, MA, as well as Citizens for a Healthy Bay in Tacoma, WA. He received his Bachelor's in Communications with a Concentration in Environmental Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Jackson was awarded a New England Regional Fellowship from the Environmental Leadership Program in 2020.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Managing Director - Environmental Resources / VHB, Inc.
- VHB 's Managing Director of Environmental Resources
As VHB's Managing Director of Environmental Resources, Jake leads a team of over 60 Massachusetts-based environmental planners, scientists, and engineers. In his 15-year career, Jake has supported municipal, institutional, and state agency clients in the areas of flood control and drainage design, riverine modeling, ecological restoration design, stormwater management design, coastal modeling, water quality modeling, constructed treatment wetland design, geographic information systems, and permitting. Jake has a BS in Environmental Engineering from Montana Tech of the University of Montana. He is a registered professional engineer in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Connecticut, and an Envision™ Sustainability Professional.
Job Titles:
- Operations & Programs Coordinator
Jessamyn (she/her/hers) joined the Environmental Business Council of New England as the Operations and Programs Coordinator in October 2021. She manages the EBC's financial, human resources, and business operations, and supports the successful execution of the organization's webinars and events.
To this role, Jessamyn brings a broad skill-set and significant experience in operations and program management, and event planning through her previous work in retail management and in higher education. She received a Master of Social Work from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and German Studies from Connecticut College. Whether it is trail running, road running, hiking, or skiing, Jessamyn most enjoys being outside as much as possible.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of Committee
John Chambers, PG, LSP has dedicated his career to revitalizing New England communities and environmental stewardship. John's primary technical role in his 30 year career as a hydrogeologist and Licensed Site Professional, has focused on brownfields revitalization and site development; environmental assessment and remediation; and regulatory compliance.
John's currently responsible for overall operations of Fuss & O'Neill, Inc. a 100-year old New England environmental and civil engineering firm serving clients from our offices in each of the six New England states. In that role John continues to evolve Fuss & O'Neill's multidisciplinary technical capabilities in our primary service areas of Climate, Energy, Mobility and Placemaking. He is part of a 250 person technical team whose culture emphasizes selfless teamwork, collaboration and technical acumen.
John earned his BS in Geology from Tufts University in 1989, and an MS in Civil Engineering from Washington State University in 1996. These two educational interests were the foundation for John's career passion for restoring blighted properties and the environment to improve the social, aesthetic, and economic health of the communities, clients and teammates he serves.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Resource Options, Inc. in 2001 As a Recruiter
- Vice President / Resource Options, Inc.
Jonathan (Jon) Abplanalp joined Resource Options, Inc. in 2001 as a Recruiter and currently serves as the Vice President of the Environmental division. Over the past 20 years, Jon has held nearly every role involved in staffing and has been an integral member in creating the strategic vision of ROI and growing the Environmental Division as a top competitor in the field. Jon is responsible for developing and growing the environmental division across all areas of the business; including hiring, training and developing internal staff, sales, client management and recruiting oversight. Jon's territory includes the greater New England area as well as New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
Jon graduated from Connecticut College with a degree in Environmental Studies in 1998 and began his career in staffing at Hollister Associates in Boston. Since 2017. Jon has been involved in the environmental business community and has served on committees within the Environmental Business Council, the Licensed Site Professionals Association, and the EBC of New Jersey. He is a current board member of the Society of American Military Engineers, Boston post, serving as the Golf Committee Chair, and was the 2009 - 2010 Membership Chair for the Society of American Military Engineers, New Jersey Post.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Partner / Prince Lobel Tye LLP
Julie Pruitt Barry is a trial and appellate attorney with more than 25 years of experience in state and federal courts including the Massachusetts Appeals Court, Superior Courts, Land Court, Probate Court, and the U.S. District Court, and First Circuit Court of Appeals. She represents developers, commercial and residential property owners, businesses, and individuals.
Julie's practice focuses on commercial and residential real estate and land use litigation and permitting, including zoning and planning, affordable housing, cannabis, renewable energy, historic districts, title and easements, construction, and insurance coverage. She also represents clients in state and federal environmental administrative matters including wetlands and tidelands, and hazardous waste under both state and federal Superfund Acts, MA Chapter 21E, and CERCLA, as well as in mediation and arbitration proceedings.
Julie successfully defended a commercial and residential property owner against an abutter's appeals of a groundwater conditional use permit granted by the Boston Zoning Board of Appeals both at trial in Suffolk Superior Court and on appeal (Perry v. Boston ZBA, 100 Mass.App.Ct. 138 (2021), as well as a Certificate of Appropriateness granted by the Back Bay Architectural Commission at trial in Suffolk Superior Court, which was not appealed, for a highly visible mixed use residential, retail and office building on Newbury Street in Boston.
Julie successfully represented a developer of affordable housing against an anti-SLAPP claim in the Massachusetts Appeals Court, which lead to an opinion deemed by MA Lawyers Weekly to be one of the Most Important Opinions of 2013 (Coalition to Preserve the Belmont Uplands et al. v. Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection, et al., 84 Mass. App. Ct. 1118; unpublished).
Julie obtained a favorable decision for a client engineering firm from the Massachusetts Appeals Court, which found that a professional engineering firm employed by a town to review the development of subdivisions in the town does not owe a duty of care to a developer or its contractor absent a showing that the developer reasonably relied on the peer reviewer's advice and the peer reviewer was aware of the reliance. (Meridian at Windchime, Inc. v. Earth Tech, Inc., 81 Mass. App. Ct. 128, 2012).
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- President
- Treasurer of the Executive Committee
- Member of Committee
Kathy has over 30 years of experience in environmental science and engineering as a consultant, working for both the public and private sectors. She is primarily responsible for the client management and growth of her firm, but clients demand that she also keep her hands in project planning and execution. Her specialty is solving environmental problems at abandoned industrial sites and has a passion for bringing brownfield sites back to economic re-use.
Kathy has managed many high-profile, award winning projects for private clients, redevelopment authorities and public agencies, providing expertise in the areas of LSP services, site assessment, remediation, permitting, environmental compliance, and hazardous materials management. Her numerous long-term clients include the cities of Chelsea and Medford, state agencies MBTA, DCR, and DCAMM, and federal agencies EPA, Army Corps, and VA. She also won for CDW the environmental compliance services contract for the 8-year Keolis Commuter Rail Contract.
Kathy holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Manhattan College in New York. She has served on many professional society committees and boards, and stays active in the Licensed Site Professional Association, the Society of American Military Engineers, the Environmental Business Council of New England, WTS International - Boston Chapter, and the Society for Women Environmental Professionals. In 2013, she was appointed by Governor Deval Patrick to the Board of Registration of Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup Professionals (the LSP Board) and in 2017 was re-appointed by Governor Charlie Baker. She has been published in several industry periodicals and is respected for her leadership in the environmental and transportation fields.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Partner / Foley Hoag LLP
- Partner at Foley Hoag LLP
Kathleen Brill is a Partner at Foley Hoag LLP who concentrates her practice on complex environmental and land use matters. Kathleen leverages her experience in the environmental consulting and real estate development fields to assist her clients in acquiring, protecting, and developing properties. On behalf of her clients in the public, private, energy, institutional, and development sectors, she has handled matters related to environmental permitting, regulatory compliance, environmental due diligence, environmental insurance, and government investigations. Kathleen has been recognized by Chambers USA as a leading practitioner of environmental law.
Kathleen has helped clients acquire permits at the local, state, and federal levels, and frequently coordinates the efforts of environmental, transportation, architectural, geotechnical, marine and other specialty consultants to ensure cohesive presentations before regulatory authorities. Particular areas of expertise include zoning, wetlands/Chapter 91 licensing, Article 97 protections, Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA) compliance, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance, and Clean Air Act permitting and compliance.
Kathleen has a B.A. from Harvard College and a J.D. from Boston College Law School. Kathleen is active in numerous civic and professional organizations, and has held leadership positions with the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (Massachusetts Chapter).
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Executive Director
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Membership Committee
- Vice Chair of the Executive Committee
- Vice Chair - Membership
Kelly leads RPS's Ocean Science business in North America, which focuses on oil spill risk and damage assessment, environmental fate and impact modeling, emergency response, and data management and cyber-infrastructure for met-ocean observations and models. Educated as an environmental engineer, Kelly has spent more than 18 years with RPS in a variety of roles focused on technical project work, business development, management, operations, and executive leadership. She currently oversees the Ocean Science business and continues to lead numerous complex data management, distribution, and visualization projects for NOAA/IOOS, USACE, USCG, Australian Defense Forces, and the Northeast Regional Ocean Council. Prior to joining RPS (formerly ASA) in 2004 she used a Fulbright Fellowship to study the impacts of sea level rise and storm surge flooding in the country of Mauritius by integrating GIS and systems engineering models.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Partner
- Partner / Brown Rudnick LLP
Kyle Johnson is a partner in the Firm's Energy, Regulatory, and Environmental Practice Group. Kyle focuses his practice on environmental issues in real estate and corporate transactions, including environmental due diligence, negotiation of liabilities, and drafting of contractual documents and indemnities, regulatory compliance and enforcement matters, remediation of contaminated properties, and general environmental counseling. Kyle's practice is multijurisdictional, and he advises clients on the identification and resolution of complex environmental risks and liabilities in a range of industries. Kyle assists clients in the drafting and negotiation of environmental provisions of purchase and sale agreements, asset purchase agreements, and other merger agreements, as well as financing agreements; selects and retains environmental consultants and other contractors to assist clients in the due diligence process, and to conduct environmental investigations, remediation, and abatement; and advises clients regarding regulatory compliance, including guiding clients through regulatory permitting and resolving alleged violations and enforcement actions.
Kyle also has extensive experience in energy and public utility law, including siting, permitting, administrative and appellate litigation, as well as real estate law.
Lauren A. Liss focuses her practice on environmental law and policy as well as real estate development. Lauren has deep public and private sector experience, having served in a variety of governmental roles, including as president and CEO of the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency. In this role, she led the state's quasi-public finance and development agency, working with businesses, nonprofits, banks, and communities to stimulate economic growth across the Commonwealth. She previously served as commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and as general counsel and deputy secretary for Environmental Policy at the Executive Office of Transportation and Construction for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Additionally, she was senior environmental counsel for the Central Artery/Ted Williams Tunnel project.
Liss earned her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College and her J.D. from Boston University School of Law.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Senior Project Manager
- Senior Project Manager / GEI Consultants
Leslie Lombardo is a Senior Project Manager, Massachusetts Registered Professional Engineer (P.E.), and Licensed Site Professional (LSP) at GEI Consultants, Inc. GEI is a national environmental, geotechnical, water resources engineering and ecology firm, employing more than 1,000 staff in 44 offices nationwide. Ms. Lombardo has over 20 years of experience in site investigation and remediation under the MCP. She has managed the characterization and remediation of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)-contaminated sites (both soil and building materials) regulated under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) regulations. Ms. Lombardo also has extensive experience developing Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasures (SPCC) Plans under the Federal Oil Pollution Prevention regulations and Storm Water Pollution Prevention (SWPPP) Plans to meet the requirements of National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits.
Prior to joining GEI, Ms. Lombardo was an active-duty officer in the U.S. Air Force for over 9 years. One of her responsibilities as an Air Force officer was managing and implementing a base-wide Environmental Compliance Assessment and Management Program.
Ms. Lombardo earned a B.S in Aerospace Engineering from Syracuse University and an M.S. in Engineering and Environmental Management from the Air Force Institute of Technology.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Chairman
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of Committee
Lisa has more than 30 years of experience in the design, construction, and management of roadway, site development, sustainable design, and infrastructure-related projects. After beginning her career in the public realm, she moved over to the private side early on, eventually joining Nitsch Engineering in 1990. Lisa served as COO for 18 years before becoming President and CEO in 2011, and Chairman and CEO in 2016. As such, she is the champion for the vision, growth strategy, strategic direction, and overall performance of the firm. Lisa's passion is to grow the firm and provide diverse opportunities to Nitsch Engineering's staff for advancement, while providing creative, innovative, and sustainable project solutions for their clients.
Lisa holds a BSCE from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, an MBA from Northeastern University, and is a 2004 graduate of ACEC National's Senior Executive Institute. Her contributions to her community have been well recognized by a range of organizations. Lisa received the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ 2014 Award in the New England region's services category. She also received the 2017 Leadership Award and 2008 Woman of the Year from WTS-Boston; received the 2004 Citizen Engineer Award from the Boston Society of Civil Engineers; received the 2003 Francis Academy Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award from UMass-Lowell; was honored with a 2002 Pinnacle Award as an Emerging Executive from the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce; and received the BSCES Lester Gaynor Award in recognition of her exemplary service as a public official in Wilmington, Massachusetts in 2001.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Principal
- Member of Committee
- Principal / W. L. French Excavating Corporation
Lisa brings 20 years of experience in the construction and environmental industry focusing on marketing, sales, and business development for her family business. Lisa also oversees the French Family Foundation and serves on the Board of the Utility Contractors Association of New England (UCANE).
Job Titles:
- Director of Strategic Development at AECOM
- Director, Strategic Development
Maeve Bartlett is currently the Director of Strategic Development at AECOM, a multinational design, engineering and construction firm. Maeve works on issues and projects across a wide range of disciplines, including energy, water, transportation and environmental permitting. Her primary focus is Sustainability, which encompasses business development and planning as well as project specific analysis and advice. Her clients cross all AECOM business lines and include transit agencies, offshore wind developers and city governments. Prior to joining AECOM in early 2015, Maeve served as Secretary of the MA Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA). Maeve had direct oversight of all of the energy and environmental agencies in Massachusetts, including MA DOER, MEPA and the MA DPU, as well as MA DEP, MA CZM, Mass Fish and Game and DCR. Before becoming Secretary, she served as MEPA Director, as General Counsel at EEA, as Senior Enforcement Counsel at EPA and in leadership positions at the MA Department of Transportation and the MBTA. Maeve has experience in development of complicated projects. Her understanding of interactions among the various permitting agencies often helps to facilitate permitting, as she has built a reputation for consensus building on divisive issues. She is a proud recipient of the Paul Keough Award from the EBC.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Principal / Epsilon Associates, Inc.
- Principal and Member of the Ecological Sciences Team at Epsilon Associates
Marc Bergeron is a Principal and member of the Ecological Sciences Team at Epsilon Associates in Maynard, Massachusetts. He has 26 years of professional experience successfully obtaining local, state, and federal environmental permits to support private and public development, transportation-related, and energy projects throughout the Northeastern US. He has a diverse background in environmental studies, specializing in wetland delineation, assessment, and mitigation, construction monitoring, ecological inventories, wildlife habitat assessments, and vernal pool ecology. He is also particularly knowledgeable in siting and licensing energy facilities such as natural gas pipelines, overhead and underground electric transmission lines, and renewable/traditional power generation facilities.
Marc is the chair of the EBC Energy Resources Committee.
Job Titles:
- Member of Committee
- Principal / Beveridge & Diamond, PC
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Area Asset Manager and CT Market Area Manager / Covanta
- Area Asset Manager for MA and CT for the Covanta
Mark is the Area Asset Manager for MA and CT for the Covanta assets and also serves as the Market Area Manager for the CT market in his dual role. Covanta is the largest energy from waste company in the US with over 30 US facilities and 4 facilities operating or under development in the EU. Mark has over 30 years of waste experience from growing up around the family waste hauling business, owning his own waste hauling company to extensive leadership positions with Republic Services, Interstate Waste and Advanced Disposal prior to Covanta. For the last 8 years, he has held several leadership roles within Covanta including oversight of IN and NY markets. He is an honorably discharge Navy Veteran who served in the US Naval Mobile Construction Battalion -133, holds an ABA and numerous certificates in leadership, sales force, health and safety training.
Job Titles:
- Executive Advisor of Weston & Sampson
Michael J. Scipione, P.E., Executive Advisor of Weston & Sampson, has nearly 40 years of engineering experience. Since joining Weston & Sampson in 1985 as a project engineer, Mike has risen through the corporation and been instrumental in the success and growth of the firm. In 2005, Mike was elected and promoted to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer. Under his leadership, Weston & Sampson has experienced significant growth to more than 725 employees in regional offices throughout the Northeast, Southeast, and Mid-Atlantic regions.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Senior Vice President
- Member of Committee
- Vice President With CDM Smith
Michael Walsh is Vice President with CDM Smith, a global engineering and construction firm headquartered in Boston. Mike is an environmental engineer with over 30 years of experience in technical, project management, client service, and organizational management roles, including the management of large, highly complex projects both locally and overseas. In his current role, Mike provides technical and managerial oversight for water, water reclamation, and alternative project delivery projects throughout New England.
Mike is a Registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) in multiple states, a Chartered Engineer (CEng.) in the United Kingdom, a Board Certified Environmental Engineer of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, and an Envision Sustainability Professional (ENV SP) as designated by the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure. He is active in several professional organizations, is a frequent speaker at national and regional conferences, and has served as both guest and primary lecturer for several college-level engineering courses. He is also a Past President of the American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA), which represents over 120 engineering and land surveying companies in Massachusetts.
Mike holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Merrimack College and a Master of Science in Environmental Engineering from Northeastern University.
Job Titles:
- Clerk
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Membership Committee
- Partner / Pierce Atwood LLP
Michelle O'Brien handles environmental and land use permitting and related litigation for various types of developments including residential homes, commercial buildings, waterfront properties, and solid waste facilities. She has more than 30 years of experience in public and private practice. Michelle frequently defends companies in environmental enforcement matters at the federal, state, and local levels. She also represents private parties in cost recovery and property damage claims involving releases of oil and hazardous materials, and assists companies with regulatory compliance under cleanup laws. Michelle also assists clients with real estate transactions involving contaminated properties and other environmental issues. She conducts environmental due diligence for real estate and business transactions, including the financing and development of renewable energy facilities. An accomplished litigator, Michelle obtained one of Massachusetts' highest trial verdicts in 2005. She has also appeared before the Massachusetts Appeals Court several times, and in 2014 obtained a victory before the Supreme Judicial Court in a case of first impression.
Before joining Pierce Atwood in January 2015, Michelle practiced 15 years at a boutique environmental law firm. Prior to that she was a Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General in both the Environmental Protection and Trial Divisions. She was a law clerk to the Justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court and a legislative aide to the Chair of the Massachusetts Legislature's Committee on Natural Resources and Agriculture.
Michelle is recognized for her expertise in Chambers USA, The Best Lawyers of America, and the Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers, among other publications. In 2015 she was named one of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly's Top Women of Law. She is a former member of the Boston Bar Association Council and former co-chair of its Environmental Law Section. She is an active member of several professional organizations and in 2007 received the Member Award from the LSP Association.
Pam Hall joined Normandeau Associates in 1971 soon after the firm was founded and was one of the "trail blazers" in the emerging environmental consulting business. She assumed leadership in 1988 and led the company for 32 years, until 2020. As CEO she was instrumental in leading the effort to develop Normandeau from a small regional NH firm to a highly regarded company doing business throughout the United States and internationally. In 2000, she led the effort to make the company 100% employee-owned (ESOP) and has been a trustee of the ESOP since its inception. Prior to becoming CEO, she held several other positions in the company and is now an executive vice president. She also served on the board of directors for 20 years, from 2000 to 2020, and was chairperson from 2015 to 2020. She has over 50 years of experience in the environmental consulting business and is a recognized business leader.Pam is passionate about corporate social responsibility including employee ownership and empowerment, civic and community engagement, volunteerism, and support of charitable organizations. She has served on numerous non-profit boards, many times in leadership roles. Past boards include the Environmental Business Council of New England (EBC) where she served as director from 1995 to 2020 and treasurer from 1997 to 2019; the Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire (NHBIA) Executive Board; NHBIA Institute for Business, Community and NH's Economy (chair); NH Chapter of The Nature Conservancy where she was a founding board member, vice chair, and chair and served for 17 years; Seacoast Science Center (NH) where she was treasurer, vice chair, and chair and served for six years; Society for the Protection of NH Forests; the NH Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership (Coastal America); and Vivamos Mejor/USA Advisory Board. In addition, Pam was a gubernatorial appointee to the NH Land and Community Heritage Commission, which helped develop the NH land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP). She was an Incorporator of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation and was also a member of advisory committees that helped establish both the Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in NH and the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve in Maine. Current board and council service includes UNH Manchester Advisory Board; the NH (EPSCoR) Research and Industry Council; and Southeast Land Trust (SELT) of NH. She is also Chair Emerita of Volunteer NH, the State Commission for volunteerism, where she was appointed by two subsequent governors and served for nine years (four as Vice Chair and four as Chair).
Pam has a B.A. in Zoology from the University of Connecticut; an M.S. in Zoology (marine science) from the University of New Hampshire (UNH), plus additional doctoral work; a B.S. (summa cum laude) in Business Administration from the Whittemore School at UNH; and considerable graduate level coursework in Urban and Environmental Policy from Tufts University. In graduate school, she was elected to Sigma Xi, an honorary scientific society and Phi Sigma, an honorary biological society, and was awarded an NDEA Fellowship for her academic excellence. In 1998 she received the "Environmental Merit Award" from the Environmental Business Council of New England; in 2012, she was honored by the New Hampshire Business Review as one of "NH's Outstanding Women in Business"; in 2014 she was honored with an "Above and Beyond" award by the Business and Industry Association of NH (NHBIA); and in 2017, she was bestowed with a "Lifetime Achievement Award" by the NHBIA. More recently, Marquis Who's Who honored Pam with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020. In February 2021, Pam received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Environmental Business Journal/Environmental Business International; and in June 2021 Pam was honored by the Environmental Business Council of New England with a Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition, she has been recognized by Volunteer NH for her commitment to civic engagement and volunteerism.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Vice Chair of the Executive Committee
- Member of Committee
- Senior Vice President / Sanborn, Head & Associates, Inc.
- Senior Vice President and Former Board Member at Sanborn
- Vice Chair - Programming
Tricia is a Senior Vice President and former Board Member at Sanborn, Head & Associates, Inc., a firm specializing in environmental and geotechnical engineering, with offices throughout New England and beyond. Tricia leads Sanborn Head's Developer Client Service Area, a group which provides services to the greater Boston, northern New England, and greater Philadelphia real estate development markets. With 21 years in the industry, Tricia has focused on evaluation of business environmental risk in support of real estate negotiations in the development industry, as well as investigating and remediating contamination for industrial clients. Her key areas of practice include hydrogeologic and environmental investigations, remedial system design and implementation, and environmental due diligence.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Member of the Strategic Planning Committee
- Advisor to the
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Job Titles:
- Member of Committee
- Section Manager
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Membership Committee
- Principal / SAGE Environmental, Inc.
After graduating from Vermont Law School's prestigious Environmental Law Center, Rick Mandile began his career performingabroad range of environmental assessment and remedial services in New England. For the first 10years of hiscareer, he worked for small and large consulting firms. In 1995, Rick founded SAGEEnvironmental which he and his team have grown to become the largest environmental, health and safety (EH&S) consultancy headquartered in Rhode Island. To-date, Rick has lead the environmental assessment of over 2,000 properties throughout the east coast and successfully completed some of the most complex remedial projects in the region.
He is recognized as a master strategist in securing approvals for complex and controversial projects, developing environmental compliance plans for pro-active and troubled companies, and successfully completing and defending a wide variety of environmental permits.
Rick represents developers, businesses and high net worth individuals with real estate and business due diligence needs as well as permitting, siting, compliance and auditing services. His projects comprise all scales of commercial and industrial developments/redevelopments ranging from residential subdivisions to industrial scale energy projects. Environmental assessment and remedial projects include many state and federal brownfields sites, hospitals, universities, solar farms, industrial scale anaerobic digestion facilities, and Fortune 500 firms.
He is Chairman of the Rhode Island Chapter of the Environmental Business Council, a member of the Massachusetts LSP Association, RI Society of Engineers and RI Realtors Association amongst others.
Rick is a licensed ship captain, an avid outdoorsman and enjoys spending time with his two children, Caleb and Mackenzie, and his partner, Carleen.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Strategic Planning Committee
- President
- President / Charter Contracting Company, LLC
Founder and president Bob Delhome, credits Charter's track record for innovation, partnering and creative solutions as key contributors for his company's many achievements and the respect it's earned in the industry. Bob is committed to always doing what's best for Charter's clients, employees and partners alike.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Executive Committee
- President / Woods Hole Group
Mr. Hamilton is a Civil/Coastal Engineering and President of the Woods Hole Group. He has been with the Woods Hole Group since 1994, and has previously served as Coastal Engineer, Business Unit Director, V.P. for Scientific Operations, and V.P. for Business Development. He earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University, and a M.S. from the University of Delaware Center for Applied Coastal Research.
He has experience managing large and small contracts, including support for a 5-year $15M USACE New England District contract that included several task orders in support of EPA Region one, most notably related to the New Bedford Superfund Site. He is focused on development of business relationships and multi disciplinary project and client management. His extensive market and contracting experience includes government agencies, architectural/engineering partners, offshore oil and gas producers, private owners/developers, power utilities, and manufacturing industries. He has strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills combined with an effective leadership, communication, negotiation, and personnel management approach. His technical expertise is on solving problems related to shoreline erosion, coastal structures, water quality, environmental permitting, and the transport and dilution of thermal discharges and contaminants released into the marine environment.
He also has multi jurisdictional regulatory experience, including preparing EIS documents under NEPA, and ahs served as an expert witness. Mr. Hamilton's technical skills include numerical modeling, field data collection, and technical writing/editing. He is responsible for developing technical approaches to complex projects, and for ensuring the technical teams within Woods Hole Group proceed in a logical manner aimed at producing high quality work products. Recent types of projects in which Mr. Hamilton has participating are related to salt marsh restoration, environmental sampling and testing, dredged material management, and environmental resource impact assessment and management planning.
Robin Main - Chief Legal Officer
Job Titles:
- Member of the Strategic Planning Committee
- Senior Counsel
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- New England Operations Manager
A registered Professional Engineer in Rhode Island as well as Ohio and New York, Ron has over 15 years of environmental engineering and management experience. Throughout his career, Ron has focused on site characterization and remediation programs, stormwater design and permitting, and air quality compliance for public and private sector clients. He has worked extensively on environmental investigations and engineering design projects at federal and commercial client sites, including urban renewal projects and Brownfields redevelopment. Ron earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Roger Williams University.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of Committee
- Principal, PWS / Beals and Thomas, Inc.
- Senior Associate at Beals and Thomas, Inc
Stacy is a Senior Associate at Beals and Thomas, Inc. (B+T) and leads B+T's Planning and Environmental Services Discipline. She is a Professional Wetland Scientist and MVP Certified Provider with expertise in local, state, and federal environmental permitting to support entitlement for a variety of projects, such as natural resource planning and restoration, renewable energy, and significant mixed-use developments. Her thorough understanding of the subject matter and dynamics of working with government agencies allows her to help project applicants manage complex technical information while maintaining productive communication throughout the process. She actively reviews and comments on proposed regulatory changes and has coordinated extensively with various regulatory agencies about such changes, including involvement in technical advisory committees. In addition to her permitting and natural resource expertise, Stacy is an experienced facilitator, managing and participating in the collaborative processes for a variety of projects. Her municipal work includes assistance with regulatory updates and open space and recreation planning, and she also undertakes peer reviews.
She is a former member of her community's Conservation Commission, presently serves on her town's Open Space and Recreation Plan Implementation Committee and is engaged in various regulatory and resiliency initiatives. She currently serves as the Association of Massachusetts Wetland Scientists President. Stacy has enjoyed contributing to EBC as part of the Ocean and Coastal Resources Committee Leadership Team and appreciates the opportunity to continue contributing as an EBC Board Member.
Job Titles:
- Administrative Coordinator
Stephanie Succar (she/her/hers) is the Administrative Coordinator for the Environmental Business Council of New England. Stephanie joined the EBC in March 2020. She previously worked with the non-profit Women's Bar Association in Boston as well as Friends of Matènwa in Cambridge, MA.
Stephanie assists EBC staff in non-profit administration, marketing, database management, and EBC events and programs. She received her Bachelor's in Communications and Media Studies from Emmanuel College.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Membership Committee
- Principal / Barrett Energy Resources Group
- Principal of Barrett Energy Resource Group
Steve is Principal of Barrett Energy Resource Group and a LEED Accredited Professional. He is also Vice President of Minuteman Wind LLC which is developing a 12.5 MW wind project in Savoy Massachusetts. Steve has over 20 years of experience in environmental policy and regulation. His professional career includes work for international, federal and state agencies, municipalities, and private consulting firms. For the past 10 years, he has focused on renewable energy and sustainable development.
Steve is presently developing guidance and serving as a technical advisor to the United Nation's International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) for its renewable energy and emission reduction programs. He is the lead author of the Federal Aviation Administration's Solar Policy (November 2010) and the Principal Investigator for three separate studies of the economic and technical feasibility of renewable energy at airports funded by the National Academy of Sciences. Steve also has a strong interest in marine renewable energy, is working on tidal and wave energy projects proposed in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Marine Renewable Energy Collaborative (MRECo) of New England. He holds a BA in International Policy from Union College in Schenectady New York and an MA in Environmental Policy and Science from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Strategic Planning Committee
- Senior Counsel / Burns & Levinson LLP
Thomas A. Mackie is an environmental business lawyer. For over thirty-five years he has advised companies in the environmental industry and other businesses facing environmental issues. He handles facility siting, environmental and land use permitting, appeals, regulatory compliance, enforcement defense, liability and insurance coverage cases.
For industry leaders Mr. Mackie spearheads environmental due diligence in acquisitions, mergers and similar transactions. These projects regularly involve the evaluation of myriad environmental liabilities, permits and licenses.
Currently he is on the Board of the Environmental Business Council of New England, the Virginia Thurston Healing Garden and Keep Massachusetts Beautiful. He regularly presents at seminars on environmental law and regulation for the EBC, Boston Bar Association, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education and other organizations. For the last fifteen years he has authored the chapter on "Massachusetts Solid Waste Law and Regulation" in the Massachusetts Environmental Law treatise published by MCLE.
Mr. Mackie graduated from Hobart College and earned his J.D., cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School. He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and New York.
While serving as the Commissioner of the NHDES, Tom spearheaded creation of E-Enterprise for the Environment, a shared governance approach among the US Environmental Protection Agency, states and tribal governments to modernize and streamline the business of environmental protection and regulation in the United States. He served as the first state co-chair of the E-Enterprise Leadership Council, which provides strategic direction for the overall initiative and oversight of dozens of E-Enterprise projects.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Partner
- Associate / Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
- Member of Committee
- Partner / Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
Valerie A. Moore is a partner in the Real Estate Department of Nutter McClennen and Fish LLP. Clients rely on Valerie's counsel in a variety of real estate matters, including land use, affordable housing, construction, zoning, and environmental permitting and litigation. She helps clients work with local, state, and federal government agencies, on issues of compliance as well as partnering with government entities. A wide range of clients, including commercial real estate developers and residential and commercial property owners, frequently turn to Valerie in permitting and environmental matters. Private landowners value Valerie's advice on the development of land under local zoning and wetlands bylaws, the Massachusetts Public Waterfront Protection Act chapter 91, and applicable easements.
Valerie has extensive experience representing clients before the Land Court, the Appeals Court, the Department of Environmental Protection, the Housing Appeals Committee, and municipal zoning boards and conservation commissions. Representative matters include: Wetlands permitting for a large agricultural project in an Area of Critical Environmental Concern; Appealing a special permit denial for an affordable housing project and obtaining a special permit on a negotiated remand; Permitting for large commercial and multifamily developments throughout Massachusetts; Defending a special permit appeal for a large senior living community; Permitting analysis and due diligence for the acquisition of a large multifamily project; Defending an appeal of a zoning map change; and Waterways permitting and appeals under M.G.L. c. 91.
Valerie continues her leadership outside the firm as a member of the Boston Bar Association and CREW Boston and has been selected to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce's Women's Leadership Program for 2019-2020. Valerie is on the Board of and Chairs the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee for the Environmental Business Council of New England and is the President of the Board of Directors of the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House. Valerie received her J.D. cum laude from Boston University School of Law and her B.A. in Political Science and Economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst summa cum laude and with Commonwealth College Honors With Highest Distinction.