Jason S. Lichtstein,
president of the Florida Brownfields Association.
Lichtstein is an environmental attorney and shareholder with the Akerman Senterfitt law firm in Tallahassee. He has significant experience in the cleanup, redevelopment, and reuse of Brownfields and other contaminated properties in Florida. Lichtstein's practice includes a range of environmental transactional, environmental regulatory compliance, and state legislative and agency advocacy matters. He was closely involved in the drafting, lobbying, and passage of the 2008 Brownfields legislation in Florida. Lichtstein's practice also includes renewable energy facility siting and development, opportunities in new carbon markets, and innovative land development and conservation strategies to develop and preserve land in Florida. He was born in Miami and grew up in the West Palm Beach area, where he and his wife Susan have two children, Gordon and Adeleigh. He graduated from the University of Michigan and Emory University law school.

Roger Register,
director and office manager for Cardno TBE Group, Tallahassee, Fla.
Register was re-elected to the board of directors of the Florida Brownfields Association (FBA) for 2010. Register has served on the FBA board since 2006 and was the organization's president in 2008. The FBA, formed in 2002, is a non-profit, volunteer, service organization with more than 350 individual members who are dedicated to assisting in the advancement and implementation of the Florida and National Brownfields Redevelopment programs. Register previously served as the Brownfields Liaison for the Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection, where he was responsible for statewide management of the Brownfields Redevelopment Program. In addition, he is a licensed Florida real estate sales associate and holds bachelor of science degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Oklahoma and a bachelor of science degree in business administration from the University of Florida.

Tom Darden,
chief executive officer, Cherokee Investment Partners, Raleigh, N.C.
In the mid-1980s, Darden served for 16 years as the Chairman of Cherokee Sanford Group, the largest privately-held brick manufacturing company in the country and previously the Southeast's largest soil remediation company. From 1981 to 1984, Darden was a consultant with Bain & Company in Boston. He is on the boards of Woodberry Forest School, Shaw University and the University of North Carolina's environmental department, and serves as chairman of the Research Triangle Transit Authority as well as two terms on the N.C. Board of Transportation through appointments by the Governor and the Speaker of the House. Darden earned an MRP in environmental planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a JD from Yale Law School and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar.

Kathy Webb,
principal, SynTerra Corp., Greenville, S.C.
A graduate of the University of Alabama, with BS and MS degrees in geology, Webb has made a career out of solving environmental challenges. Brownfield redevelopment projects represent the most challenging, she said. "It's fun pulling together a variety of disciplines—land planning, risk assessment, geology, and community interest groups—working as a team to revive a community," says Webb. Though she's worked on a variety of brownfield sites, Webb cites her firm's redevelopment of an old textile mill in a blighted area of downtown Greenville, S.C. as one of the crowning achievements in her career. The mill was transformed into a beautiful office building named "Innovate," and is now SynTerra's headquarters. "It's a prime example of what a little faith and imagination can do," said Webb, adding that on her "to-do" list for the future include: encouraging greenspace developers to try brownfields projects; removing perceived and actual regulatory roadblocks that inhibit brownfields redevelopment, and finding sustainable remediation technologies.

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