HEMISPHERE BROWNFIELD GROUP - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Managing Director
• Chief Executive Officer of Hull & Associates, Inc

Craig Kasper is the Chief Executive Officer of Hull & Associates, Inc., a leading project development and environmental engineering firm, consisting of approximately 170 professionals in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic. In addition to his business leadership, Mr. Kasper is one of the early pioneers in brownfield redevelopment. He is recognized throughout the country for his creative strategies and leadership in this evolving field. He has directed many notable brownfield redevelopment projects that have reshaped and stimulated local economies, including the redevelopment of the former Delphi Automotive Facility in Columbus, Ohio for the home of Penn National Gaming's Hollywood Columbus Casino; the Red Bank Road (former Ford Transmission Plant) redevelopment in Cincinnati, Ohio; the Springfield Regional Cancer Treatment Center in Springfield, Ohio; the luxurious Miranova high rise along the Scioto River in downtown Columbus, Ohio; the $1.2 billion expansion of the DaimlerChrysler Jeep Assembly Plant in Toledo, Ohio; the Lakeview Bluffs redevelopment in Painesville, Ohio; the redevelopment of former GM Assembly Plants in Baltimore, Maryland, and Linden, New Jersey; and, the expansion of the University of Dayton's campus on the former NCR manufacturing plant in Dayton, Ohio. In addition to routinely speaking at national venues, Mr. Kasper was invited to present as a guest lecturer at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Mr. Kasper has testified before a U.S. House subcommittee on the impacts of brownfields in the Midwest and before the Ohio legislature in support of the state's $400 million Clean Ohio Fund. As one of the original authors of Ohio's brownfield legislation, he was appointed by former Ohio Governor George Voinovich to serve on a steering committee that developed Ohio's Voluntary Action Program and is one of the state's first Certified Professionals (CP) under the program. In addition, he has presented at numerous state and national conferences, including the National Brownfield Conference. Mr. Kasper holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Ohio Northern University.

Job Titles:

• Senior Managing Director

Eric Friedman has enjoyed an extensive and diverse career in the areas of real estate services, acquisition and development, as well as strategy and operations consulting in both the private and public sectors. He was a founder of Cleveland Real Estate Partners, a facilities strategy firm launched in 1988 and sold to Deloitte & Touche in 1999. The firm developed a unique, advocacy-based model for the optimization of public and private sector real property portfolios and provided service in the areas of technology modeling, land use, environmental planning, development consulting, zoning, acquisition and disposition. The firm also provided sovereign to sovereign and private sector government relations. Mr. Friedman has been a strategic advisor to and an investor in Hemisphere's transactions for over 15 years. From 1999-2014, Mr. Friedman served as a principal in Deloitte Consulting, the world's largest consulting firm. Deloitte Consulting consists of more than 44,000 practitioners serving 100 countries/locations, including over 80% of Fortune 500 companies. As a principal in Deloitte's public sector practice, Mr. Friedman focused his practice on helping to resolve the most complex issues facing both public and private entities. In particular, the public sector practice served 45 U.S. states across a broad variety of platforms. During his tenure, he also led the program management office for Deloitte's Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) services. He also served the firm's Diversity and Inclusion initiative; the National Sustainability & Climate Change Community of Practice; the Center for Health Solutions, a healthcare policy think tank; and the federal and state government relations groups. Mr. Friedman received his education at Occidental College and Case Western Reserve University.

Job Titles:

• Managing Director
• Business Leader
• Managing Director With Hemisphere

Michael Greitzer is a Managing Director with Hemisphere, a nationally recognized brownfield redevelopment firm. He focuses primarily on Hemisphere's acquisition and redevelopment activities. Michael Greitzer is a proven business leader with a demonstrated history of success in propelling business growth, assembling and leading dynamic teams and strategically positioning companies to optimize market impact. Prior to joining Hemisphere, Mr. Greitzer retired as a Partner and Dayton Market President of Miller-Valentine Group, a large, privately held commercial development firm located in the midwest. During his 16 year tenure at Miller-Valentine, he shaped the sales, marketing and public relations strategies that raised the firm's regional profile and substantially increased its construction, development and property management revenues. Mr. Greitzer's corporate real estate experience includes the management of a significant national portfolio of institutional grade assets in distribution, manufacturing and logistics. He has been involved in a leadership capacity on both a regional and national platform as a property owner's representative in such notable organizations as Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA), International Facilities Managers Association (IFMA) and the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM). Widely recognized as a valued business partner with a collaborative approach, Mr. Greitzer has built a reputation of success in leading development and construction teams on numerous office, industrial, educational and mixed used projects. His ability to engage people across organizational functions and working through teams to achieve shared goals and objectives is well documented. He has had significant success in leading a number of complex renovation and urban redevelopment project teams for universities and healthcare systems, where his leadership was essential to bringing public and private partners together. He is persuasive, influential, and well-known for his ability to anticipate outcomes and help individuals and groups reach them. Mr. Greitzer is also a committed community servant leader and has played a significant role in the growth of state and local nonprofits organizations, as well as in economic development initiatives for regional growth. He has served on boards and committees for more than 15 business and community resources, including the Dayton Art Institute, the Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges, Catholic Healthcare Partners, Community Mercy Health Partners Foundation, the Downtown Dayton Partnership, and the Homeless Solutions Policy Board. As a board member for these and other organizations, he has helped lead campaigns that have raised more than $25 million for operations, expansions, and endowments. Mr. Greitzer is a graduate of Wittenberg University with Bachelors of Arts degrees in Business Administration and Marketing Communications.

Job Titles:

• Chief Executive Officer
• Hemisphere 's Chief Executive Officer

Todd S. Davis is Hemisphere's Chief Executive Officer, and is widely recognized as one of the nation's leading brownfield redevelopment experts and environmental lawyers. Mr. Davis focuses his work on all aspects of redeveloping contaminated property and the environmental aspects of real estate transactions. In this role, Mr. Davis has actively acquired numerous sites for Hemisphere's portfolio and provided strategic advice in hundreds of transactions, including a number of the nation's largest and most sophisticated brownfield redevelopments. These transactions typically have involved participating in relevant state voluntary cleanup programs, executing complex redevelopment strategies, coordinating applicable financing alternatives, negotiating public incentives, and the manuscripting and placement of pertinent environmental insurance products. Projects Mr. Davis has led have been the subject of business case studies by the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He has lectured annually at The Kellogg School of Management from 2014-2018. He also has served as a strategic consultant to a major university, significant public and private companies, as well as a number of government entities regarding brownfield redevelopment issues. Mr. Davis was tapped to lead the legal track at "Brownfields University," at U.S. EPA's National Brownfield Conferences during 2023 in Detroit and during 2022 in Oklahoma City. Mr. Davis was selected to serve as the Chair of the Real Estate Committee for the Surplus Properties Roundtable ("SPR"), a trade group including the nation's largest brownfield property owners. In connection with his redevelopment work over the past two decades, Mr. Davis was asked to speak at the Mayor's Roundtable Plenary Session at U.S. EPA's 2019 National Brownfields Conference in Los Angeles and was featured in a U.S. EPA film commemorating brownfield redevelopment achievements for Brownfields 2015, U.S. EPA's 20th Anniversary National Brownfield Conference. In 2013, Mr. Davis was selected by the American Bar Association's (ABA's) Section of Environment, Energy and Resources (SEER) to serve as the key point of contact for any media inquiries involving brownfields. In 2017, Mr. Davis also was selected to chair the ABA SEER's Government and Private Sector Innovation Committee focusing on federal environmental regulatory reform to facilitate brownfield redevelopment and expedite contaminated property cleanups. In 2019, Mr. Davis was selected to Co-Chair the ABA's "Master Class on Complex Environmental Liability Resolution," which was awarded "Best Program" of 2018-2019 by ABA SEER. Mr. Davis has been broadly published in treatises, periodicals and newspapers. He is the principal author of an extensive 1,100-page treatise on redeveloping brownfield sites nationally, entitled Brownfields: A Comprehensive Guide to Property (3rd Ed. 2010), published by the American Bar Association. This treatise has been one of the most successful books published by ABA SEER. Mr. Davis served on the editorial board of Brownfield News, the brownfield industry's leading business publication, and wrote a regular column for Brownfield News featuring practical advice on brownfield development transactions called "Ask the Expert." He is a contributing author to Turning Brownfields Into Greenbacks (1998), a book published by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) highlighting successful brownfields redevelopment strategies. Mr. Davis authored a chapter on brownfields redevelopment in multiple editions of Environmental Aspects of Real Estate and Commercial Transactions (4th Ed. ABA 2011). Further, Mr. Davis authored a chapter in two editions of Implementing Institutional Controls at Brownfields and Other Contaminated Sites, a book published by the ABA (2nd Ed. ABA 2012). He also is an author of The Underground Storage Tank Manual (1st Ed. 1994), a comprehensive publication on Ohio underground storage tank law Redeveloping Contaminated. Based on his scholarly works and practical experience, Mr. Davis has been a featured speaker at numerous national forums on brownfield redevelopment including multiple U.S. EPA National Brownfield Conferences, national conferences of the American Bar Association's Environmental Section, various ULI Redevelopment and Reuse Council Meetings and The White House Conference on Sustainable Development. He has testified before Congress on brownfield legislation and at various U.S. EPA working groups on brownfield issues. Mr. Davis spoke on the "Ask the Expert" panel at the 2022 Ohio Brownfield Conference. Mr. Davis served as Secretary of the Board of Directors for the National Brownfield Association, the industry's principal trade organization Mr. Davis was a member of the Urban Land Institute's Environmental Committee and ULI's Redevelopment and Reuse Committee. During 2017, Mr. Davis served as a mentor in ULI's Cleveland District Partnership Forum, a six-month program focused on counseling young real estate professionals. He served as a Vice Chairman of the ABA's Environmental Transactions and Brownfields Committee (ETAB). On a local level, he participated in the initial Rulemaking Committee for Ohio's Voluntary Action Program, as well as the Five-Year Rule Review Committee, and was a member of the Ohio Brownfields Finance Partnership. Mr. Davis also served on the Leadership Board of The Cleveland Clinic Foundation's Children's Hospital. Based on his years of scholarship and service, Mr. Davis was appointed to the Fellows of the American Bar Association, a global honorary society of attorneys, limited to 1% in each jurisdiction, whose careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the highest principles of the legal profession and to the welfare of their communities. He received his bachelor of business administration from the University of Michigan, with Distinction, and his law degree from The George Washington University, with Honors. Mr. Davis also was formerly a partner in Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP and was Co-Chairman of the firm's Environmental Practice Group.