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Therese Carpenter is an Environmental Scientist with seven years experience encompassing a broad spectrum of environmental issues. She has been actively involved in Brownfields since 2005, working as a community liaison and sponsored project representative at local, regional, and national levels, in addition to performing site assessments and investigative work.

Ms. Carpenter's interests include sustainable redevelopment and community infill projects with an emphasis in social justice issues. Ms. Carpenter is currently finishing her Master of International Environmental Management and Sustainability at Arizona State University, and is looking toward pursuing her Doctorate in Environmental Social Science.

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Todd S. Davis Todd S. Davis is the Chief Executive Officer of Hemisphere Development, a nationally recognized brownfield development firm headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. 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.

Mr. Davis has been widely 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 Redeveloping Contaminated Property (2d Ed. 2002), published by the American Bar Association (ABA). This treatise has been the most successful book published by the ABA's Environmental Section. He has contributed to a number of national publications on environmental law, including the Urban Land Institute's book on brownfield redevelopment. He lectures often on topics related to the brownfield industry.

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Josephine Faass has a Ph.D. in environmental policy from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Dr. Faass' experience in the field of remediation includes working as a Petroleum Cleanup Site Manager with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and as a Research Associate at the National Center for Neighborhood and Brownfields Redevelopment.

She has also been involved with a number of redevelopments throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania, has organized and moderated sessions at Drexel University's "Greening the Post-Industrial City" conference, interned with the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs Office of Smart Growth, and published on various redevelopment-related topics in popular and peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Faass currently works as a Research Associate at the Center for Transportation Safety, Security and Risk at Rutgers University.

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Whitney Hawke currently attends Lewis & Clark law school, where she plans to focus on land use and environmental law. In May 2009, Ms. Hawke graduated with honors from Occidental College in Los Angeles, and obtained degrees in both Politics, and Urban & Environmental Policy. Her senior comprehensive project researched case studies of interim-use brownfield projects and their feasibility in the United States.

While attending Occidental, she worked for the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger & Homelessness where she co-authored a report on homeless deaths in Los Angeles County titled "Dying Without Dignity". Ms. Hawke also worked as a research assistant to Professor Peter Dreier, during which time she researched School and City Partnerships in California.

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Colleen Kokas is the Brownfield Manager within the Office of Brownfield Reuse at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. With many years of experience in project financing, cleanup negotiations, litigation and cost recovery support, and brownfield policy development, Ms. Kokas is recognized as one of the state's most knowledgeable experts on brownfield redevelopment and financing.

In her current role, Ms. Kokas administers all of the Department's brownfield incentive programs, including the Brownfield Development Area initiative, the Landfill Redevelopment Program, the Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund, Prospective Purchaser Agreements, the Brownfield Reimbursement Program and the Federal Taxpayer Relief Act. She advises developers and municipalities on all aspects of brownfield remediation, including the application of the most suitable brownfield incentives for a project.

Ms. Kokas sits on the Executive Committee of the NJ Society of Women Environmental Professionals and on the Board of the Institute of Brownfield Professionals. She is also an adjunct professor at the NJ Institute of Technology teaching a graduate course on Brownfields, as well as an instructor of Continuing Education Courses at Rutgers University.

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Thomas Muscarello is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing at DePaul University's College of Computing and Digital Media and is the College's Director of External Research. This position focuses on building strategic relationships with business and government. In this job and in private industry he has met and worked with economic development officers of dozens of countries with a focus on economically and environmentally distressed areas. He has created economic incubator plans for 4 municipalities, raised brown-field/economic development funding, and been a member of numerous redevelopment commissions including the Waukegan, IL New Harbor City Renaissance Committee and Harvard, IL Economic Development Incubator project.

Mr. Muscarello has developed working relationships with the EDA, EPA, DOL, HUD, and local, state, and Federal agencies and elected officials and has developed several earmarked grants. He was founder and Executive Director of DeTech, DePaul's startup "incubator" facility. He was also a charter member of Chicago's Mayor's Council of Technology Advisors (co-chairing the Technology Commercialization committee).

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Chris Olson has over 29 years of experience in the Petrochemical Industry with Amoco/BP where he has held a wide spectrum of roles and responsibilities, including domestic and international oil and gas exploration, directing worldwide environmental compliance and management system audits, developing environmental permitting strategies, acquisition and divestment due diligence support, to managing complex, multi-party environmental remediation projects and associated stakeholder relations.

From 2004 to 2009, Mr. Olson held the position of Real Estate Reuse Manager for BP. In this global role, he directly managed the centralization, and prioritization of non-operating land assets across BP's diverse business lines, provided strategic advice to the operating businesses, and managed real estate transactions and associated risk transfer, ultimately placing more than 3000 acres of BP's environmentally impaired real estate back into the marketplace for new sustainable development.

In September 2009, Mr. Olson joined Entrix as Senior Consultant, Land Asset Management to assist other corporations and large landowners with strategies and divestment solutions for their environmentally challenged real estate portfolio and to incorporate Entrix' natural resource valuation mitigation, and management strengths into that offering

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Gary Rozmus P.E. is a Vice President of Gannett Fleming where he directs a firm-wide team that provides nation-wide turnkey Sustainable Brownfield redevelopment services. He is also the First Chairman of the Board of Directors for the New York City Partnership of Brownfield Practitioners.

Mr. Rozmus has obtained a BS in Civil Engineering from Manhattan College and an MS in civil engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York. Mr. Rozmus has more than 34 years of experience in the environmental consulting services field. He directs a broad range of services including site investigation and remediation, pre-purchase/pre-sale assessments and due diligence, hazardous waste materials management, underground storage tank programs, rapid response to hazardous materials spills, and environmental compliance. He directs construction, demolition, and facility decommissioning / infrastructure rehabilitation services; develops and manages risk-based corrective action (RBCA) programs at closed or abandoned industrial and hazardous waste sites; and provides litigation-related services for clients and their attorneys.

J. Meade R. Anderson Richmond, Va. CPG, Brownfields Program Manager, Virginia Dept. of Environmental Quality

Pat Pontoriero Pittsburgh, Pa. P.G., Vice President, Ohio Valley Area Manager, MACTEC Engineering and Consulting

Heather Rock British Columbia Senior Program Analyst, Ministry of Agriculture and Lands

	Accelerating Economic Development:The Area-Wide Approach of the Brownfield Opportunity Areas Program by Jody Kass, Laura Truettner, John Fleming, and Jeff Jones The new report by New Partners for Community Revitalization (NPCR) shows how New York State is revitalizing neighborhoods plagued by multiple brownfield sites, while stimulating economic growth and creating local jobs.
	Smart Growth Outlook 2011: Challenges and Opportunities in Brownfields, Area-wide Planning & Implementation By Jody Kass, Laura Truettner, John Fleming, Jeff Jones Brownfields redevelopment policy in New York is in transition as the area-wide approach emerges as an innovative tool for urban revitalization.
	The Brownfield Opportunity Areas Program: Smart Investments Laying the Groundwork for Economic Development, June 2011 by Laura Truettner In April, 2011, New York State awarded $6.5 million in new grants under its landmark Brownfield Opportunity Areas (BOA) program, bringing the total state investment in BOA to $34 million.

Brownfields Forum, BOA EXPO, Award to Suffolk County Executive-Elect Steven Bellone

New Partners for Smart Growth Conference Feb 02, 2012 - Today San Diego

Carbon Management Technology Conference Feb 07, 2012 - Feb 09, 2012 Orlando

Southwest Fire Ecology Conference—Fire, Landscapes, Wildlife & People: Building Alliances for Restoring Ecosystem Resilience Feb 27, 2012 - Mar 01, 2012 Santa Fe

Kenneth H. Kastman Chicago URS Corp.

Susan Boyle Mt. Laurel Senior Environmental Practice Leader, GEI Consultants

Therese Carpenter Phoenix Environmental Scientist