Gregory M. Baird

Gregory M. Baird is Managing Director/CFO of AWI Consulting LLC. He previously served as the chief financial officer of Aurora Water, Colorado's third largest utility, where he managed a $145 million annual operating budget, the $754 million Prairie Waters Project, and a $2 billion capital plan. Prior to that, he was the finance officer for California's 17th largest city. Baird has a master’s degree in public administration from BYU’s Marriott School of Management. Baird is an advisor to the Economic Development and Capital Planning Committee with the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) for the United States and Canada and trains finance directors on asset management concepts.

Kevin Campanella

Kevin is a professional engineer with 17 years of experience in the wastewater engineering and utility management. He spent time in New Zealand specializing in asset management, and for 7 years in Columbus has specialized in asset management implementation. He is currently an Assistant Director at the City of Columbus, Dept. of Public Utilities, where he is the Asset Management Program Manager.

Kirby Date

Kirby Date, AICP, is program manager for the Community Planning Program at Cleveland State University’s Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs. Her areas of expertise include development planning and design, small town planning, and planning and design for parks, open space, and environmental areas. In 2004 she led the Ohio Lake Erie Commission’s working group on Best Local Land Use Practices, as part of the Balance Growth Blue Ribbon Task Force. Since 2006 she has led the Best Local Land Use Practices program, which expanded to a statewide program in 2009 under the Ohio Lake Erie Commission and the Ohio Water Resources Council.

Dennis Doherty, P.E., F.ASCE

Dennis Doherty, P.E., F.ASCE, is a Senior Trenchless Technology Engineer for Haley & Aldrich. Doherty is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a recognized leader in the trenchless technology market, with over 20 years of experience specializing in the use of trenchless technologies in highly urbanized areas. His rehabilitation experience ranges from spot repairs for small municipal sewer systems to slip lining of large diameter interceptors. His new trenchless technology experience ranges from pipe bursting to microtunneling and horizontal directional drilling. He also has extensive experience in the evaluation, design and construction of wastewater collection systems and other underground infrastructure.

Nathan Gardner-Andrews

Nathan Gardner-Andrews serves as General Counsel to the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) in Washington, DC, where he has worked since 2006. He advises the Association and its municipal members on a variety of legal, regulatory, legislative, and policy matters and oversees the Association’s litigation portfolio. He has written articles and spoken nationally addressing clean water issues. Gardner-Andrews received his B.A. from Columbia University in 2001 and his J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law in 2005.

Frank P. Greenland

Frank P. Greenland is Director of Watershed Programs for the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (NEORSD). He has been extensively involved in a variety of wet-weather project roles, including combined sewer overflow (CSO) long-term control plan and regional stormwater management program development. He holds a bachelor of science degree in environmental engineering technology from the University of Dayton, and a master of science degree in civil engineering from Cleveland State University. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Ohio.

Alex Margevicius

Pronounced: Mar GAV’ e chus

Alex Margevicius is the Assistant Commissioner of Engineer for the City of Cleveland Division of Water. He is a native Clevelander who began his tenure Cleveland Water as a civil engineer in 1985 and was appointed to his current role in 1995. Margevicius is responsible for coordinating all engineering and capital improvement projects for the division. He is an expert in the design and operation of large, complex water systems, and has significant insights into distribution system infrastructure issues. He led the designing Cleveland Water’s GIS and hydraulic model systems and is an authority on power grid reliability for the water industry.

Kevin O’Brien

Kevin O’Brien is the Executive Director of the Center for Public Management and the Great Lakes Environmental Finance Center, two research and technical assistance centers of the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. He has worked in the fields of public finance, public management, and economic development for more than 25 years. With the Levin College for more than 20 years, he has undertaken a wide variety of government and school finance, management improvement, fiscal and economic impact, privatization, infrastructure finance planning and economic development strategy assignments with local, state and federal government and not-for-profit clients.

John W. Schombert

John W. Schombert is the Executive Director of the 3 Rivers Wet Weather Demonstration Project in Pittsburgh, Pa. With more than three decades of waste management experience, Schombert is the resident authority on wet weather sewage overflows and played a key role in turning 3 Rivers Wet Weather from a concept into a reality. As Executive Director, he sets the strategic direction for the organization and leads a team of six professionals in implementing programs and reaching goals. Prior to joining 3RWW, he worked for nearly 30 years in the Allegheny County Health Department's water pollution, public drinking water and waste management programs.

Kathy Shandling

Kathy Shandling is the Executive Director of the International Private Water Association (IPWA) – a global advocacy/non-profit organization that serves as a conduit between the public and private sector players involved in the water/wastewater infrastructure project and service arena. Shandling was instrumental in launching the IPWA Financial Tools Taskforce which has been steadfast in its support of evolving sustainable local currency financing initiatives for the funding of water/wastewater infrastructure projects in developing countries. Shandling holds a master of science degree in economics (political economics) from The London School of Economics, and a bachelor of arts degree from Wellesley College.

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