GERSHMAN, BRICKNER & BRATTON - Key Persons

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• Senior Consultant

Education: BA, Government and Comparative Politics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA Certification: Certificate of Project Management, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA Areas of Expertise: Survey Development; Public Engagement and Outreach; Project Management; Composting; Research; Editing; and Proposal Development.

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• Executive Vice President

Education: BS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI

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• Chairman
• President
• Chairman, President, Founder Owner Associate and Co - Founder

Education: BS, Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA Areas of Expertise: Strategic thinking and planning; procurement and negotiation assistance; system administration; change management; and project financing coordination. "Earth Day 1970 first inspired my career to focus on helping do better things with waste. And, I have been able to do just that for the past 40+ years."

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• Co - Founder

Education: BS, Civil Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, PA Areas of Expertise: System reviews; technical and economic evaluations of project opportunities; C&D recycling and management; procurement evaluations and negotiations.

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• Senior Project Manager

Education: BS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Certification:

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• Co - Founder

Education: MBA, University of Pittsburgh, PA BS, Biology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA Mr. Bratton has over 40 years of experience in project planning, procurement, economic analysis, and financing in the solid waste management industry. He has managed and directed numerous recycling, resource recovery, and landfill feasibility studies; comprehensive solid waste management plans, full cost accounting studies, privatization evaluations, and independent cost analyses; due diligence investigations and environmental site assessments for facility acquisition; served as a key adviser in the planning and procurement of several modern waste management facilities now in operation; trained many solid waste professionals; and authored and co-authored numerous papers, studies, guides, and a book. He has assisted many clients in analyzing the economics and tax implications of various recycling, waste processing and disposal projects and managed the development of a financial model to evaluate projects under different operator/ownership scenarios. He has experience in assessing project financing and risk management from the standpoints of the development agency, the markets, the system vendor/operator, and a third-party equity participant. He has developed the contract negotiating strategies, and prepared and negotiated service contracts, waste supply agreements, construction contracts, energy sales contracts, and host municipality agreements. Prior to co-founding GBB, Mr. Bratton was a managing director of Gordian Associates, Inc. There he served as program director for the RCRA Technical Assistance Panel's work in EPA's Region I (New England) and as director of the firm's hazardous waste practice. Before joining Gordian, he was Chief of the Resource Recovery Section of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources (PaDER), planning and directing statewide waste reclamation and developing and supervising a $25 million financial assistance program for resource recovery and recycling development agencies.