Paul Arnold, PE,
Principal and Brownfields Initiative Leader, TRC Cos., Lowell, Mass.
A Brownfields consulting career that spans the last two decades, Arnold has had oversight of TRC's Municipal Brownfields initiative in the Northeast since 1999. Arnold has managed the assessment and remediation at hundreds of Brownfields properties, and early in his career worked at dozens of Superfund sites in EPA Regions I and II. Arnold developed a firm foundation and knowledge of the regulatory framework that he now applies to assist numerous brownfields redevelopment clients. His expertise with EPA grantees and private sector Brownfields developers in more than 150 Northeastern communities has been integral in over $100 million of Brownfields redevelopment. Arnold and his team of TRC's 200 Brownfields professionals have been called on by a number of regulatory agencies to enhance their programs. Arnold holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Studies from Stonehill College.

James R. Ash, P.E., LSP,
Vice President, GEI Consultants, Inc., Woburn, Mass.
Working for an environmental, geotechnical, and water resources engineering consulting firm, Ash has focused his engineering experience on the implementation of remediation strategies that provide real property improvements while meeting constantly-changing regulatory requirements. Ash is a Professional Engineer in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and a Licensed Site Professional in Massachusetts, and holds 20 years of environmental consulting experience in California and New England. He earned Master of Engineering and Bachelor of Science degrees in Civil Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley.

H. Keith DuBois,
Brownfields Program Coordinator, New Hampshire Dept. of Environmental Services (NHDES)
DuBois has served in the coordinator capacity since September 2007 and formerly served as project manager within NHDES' Hazardous Waste Remediation Bureau-Brownfields Program from August of 2002 until September 2007. He is a licensed professional geologist and had worked in the environmental consulting industry for 17 years before joining the NHDES. His consulting industry experience includes numerous pre-acquisition due diligence assessments, hydrogeologic site investigations, remedial investigations at EPA Superfund Sites, and site remediation. "I enjoy working collaboratively with our regional planning commissions, municipalities and developers to successfully remediate and redevelop Brownfields sites," he said. "No single entity or individual is solely responsible for a successful Brownfields project. Success requires a dedicated team of professionals, regulators, and community-based organizations who work together toward the common goal. Other than funding, our biggest impediments to achieving Brownfields success is resistance from communities based on unfounded liability concerns and some people's inability to see beyond current conditions and see what a Brownfield can become."
DuBois earned a Bachelor of Science degree in earth and space sciences from S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook in 1980 and a Master of Science degree in geology from Boston College in 1987. He is a member of the Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers and the American Institute of Professional Geologists.

Timothy Murray,
Lieutenant Governor, state of Massachusetts, Boston, Mass.
Throughout his public career, Lt. Gov. Murray has taken on the tough challenges of economic development and protecting the environment while making government more responsive to every citizen. Prior to his election, Murray was first elected to the Worcester City Council in 1997 and became mayor in 2001. He served as mayor of Massachusetts' second largest city for three terms. Under his leadership, Worcester experienced unprecedented progress, with $1 billion of new economic development projects that are helping to transform an older industrial city into one that is well-positioned to lead and grow in the new economy. As Lt. Gov., Murray works closely with Gov. Patrick on the important issues facing the Commonwealth. Among some of his leadership roles in the administration, Murray has continued his economic development and brownfields redevelopment efforts that he first started as mayor of Worcester. Through the administration's creation of the Brownfields Support Team Initiative (see sidebar), Murray is making reclamation of these sites a priority, working for the tandem important goals of environmental protection and community and economic development. In November 2008, the Patrick-Murray Administration declared November as "Brownfields Month," which included a series of events around the state that commemorated the 10th anniversary of the signing of the landmark Massachusetts Brownfields Act and also celebrated accomplishments in the state over the past decade.
"Governor Patrick and our administration value the success of the Massachusetts Brownfields Act of 1998, and we continue to focus our efforts on redeveloping former blighted and decadent sites to help boost local and regional economies across the Commonwealth," said Murray. "By creating the Brownfields Support Team Initiative, our administration collaborates with multiple agencies on redevelopment projects such as revitalizing a historic waterfront, restoring a vacant manufacturing facility, and spurring a downtown development area. Through these partnerships, we are able to clean up contaminated sites that will create attractive development opportunities and restore infrastructure to support Massachusetts' continued economic long-term growth."

Catherine Finneran,
Brownfield Coordinator, state of Massachusetts, Boston, Mass.
In 2000, Finneran accepted the role as Brownfield Coordinator, state of Massachusetts, and is the state contact for brownfields issues, works with developers and communities and markets state and federal programs. In her first job as a development manager for a city in Western Massachusetts in the 1990s, Finneran authored what became one of the first successful grant proposals under the EPA pilot assessment program. From there her interest in the intersection of environmental and economic development through brownfields redevelopment began. Finneran served as acting director of a local community development corporation focused on housing and downtown revitalization and also addressed entitlement issues for public and private sector developers at private sector planning firm in Arizona. "The state of Massachusetts is leading efforts nationwide with its program—we have the first privatized cleanup program in the country, and brownfields legislation passed in 1998 that included the first state subsidized environmental insurance program," said Finneran, who has spoken at more than 100 national/state conferences, authored numerous articles.