Maureen F. Gorsen

Maureen Gorsen is a partner in the Alston + Bird, LLP firm’s Environmental & Land Development Group, focusing her practice on environmental compliance and land use. She is the former director of the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, where she oversaw the state agency charged with protecting the public health and the environment from toxic harm, cleaning up sites contaminated by toxic substances, ensuring that hazardous waste is managed safely and preventing future pollution. Prior to her appointment as director of the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, Gorsen served as the deputy secretary for law enforcement and general counsel at the California Environmental Protection Agency, where she was responsible for ensuring that the enforcement efforts of Cal/EPA's various boards, departments and local agencies were carried out in a consistent, effective and coordinated manner to protect public health and the environment.

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Pamela Creedon

Pamela Creedon is the Executive Officer of the Central Valley Water Quality Control Board. She is a licensed Civil Engineer and a Board Certified Environmental Engineer with over 29 years of professional experience, including over 17 years of experience in both the public and private sector developing and implementing water quality regulatory programs. She is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Tau Beta Pi. She serves on the American Society of Civil Engineers National Energy, Environment and Water Policy Committee, as Chair of the CSU Sacramento Environmental and Water Resources Advisory Committee, on the Board of Directors of the Sacramento Chapter of the Environmental & Water Resources Institute (SCEWRI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers and on the Board of Directors for the San Francisco Estuary Institute Aquatic Science Center.

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Bruce Wolfe

Bruce Wolfe was appointed Executive Officer of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board in 2003. He oversees the 120 staff of the Water Board in carrying out the Board’s mission of understanding, protecting, enhancing, and restoring the Bay Region’s waters. Prior to his appointment, he had been, since 1997, the Board’s division chief for implementing watershed management programs, including control and restoration of impacts to wetlands and streams, stormwater pollution control, nonpoint source control, and control of discharges of waste to land.

Wolfe started with the Water Board in 1977, and, in addition to his watershed management oversight, has overseen the drinking water well investigation program and the Superfund and underground tank leak cleanup programs, and has had direct responsibility for permitting wastewater treatment plants and landfills.

Wolfe is a registered professional engineer in California.

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Chris Nelson

Chris Nelson has 20 years of experience in the environmental industry, spanning both the private and public sectors, and including consulting, government and Brownfields real estate development experience. He is an assertive leader, adept at interacting with stakeholders, consultants, engineers, and contractors and ensuring projects remain on time and within budget. Currently Nelson heads up the SCS Brownfields Strategic Initiative known as SCS Secure. In this role Nelson collaborates with clients, services providers and strategic partners to successfully position SCS for winning opportunities in the brownfield redevelopment arena. Nelson has been published in numerous magazines and journals on the subject of specialty brownfield financing programs and recently on alternative energy on Brownfields. He was the principal author of a white paper in 2009 entitled Brownfields to Brightfields – Alternative Energy Production on Closed Landfills and Brownfields.

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Curt Hildebrand

Curt Hildebrand is currently the Vice President for Greenwing Energy where he manages projects and business development activities for wind powered and natural gas fired power generation projects in the western U.S. and Canada. He has a wide variety of professional history in Project Development & Management, Government, Regulatory & Public Affairs, Sales & Marketing and Senior Management in the energy industry. He has successfully managed multi-disciplinary teams to permit and develop over $3 billion of new energy investments in California as well as directed the execution of power purchase contracts with total revenues of over $4 billion. Hildebrand is a certified California Professional Engineer.

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Lura Matthews

Lura Matthews, Program Analyst for US EPA, is the project lead for EPA’s RE-Powering America’s Land: Siting Renewable Energy on Potentially Contaminated Land and Mine Sites initiative. Matthews has been at EPA since July 2006, where she has worked on climate change issues related to land and materials for several years, including helping to document and report how materials management and land management decisions relate to greenhouse gas emissions.

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Deana Carrillo

Deana Carrillo is the Program Manger of the California Recycle Underutilized Sites (CALReUSE) and the Sustainable Communities Grant and Loan (SCGL) Programs housed within the California Pollution Control Financing Authority (CPCFA). Prior to joining CPCFA, Deana spent several years working on California policy issues as Director of Outreach and Special Initiatives for State Treasurer Phil Angelides’ campaign. Ms. Carrillo also served as a policy analyst for the California Budget Project, focusing on the California budget, workforce development, and childcare issues; and as a research analyst for the Milken Institute, UCLA Institute for Labor and Employment, and the public opinion firm Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin & Associates.

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Noemi Emeric-Ford

Noemi Emeric-Ford is USEPA Region 9’s Brownfields Coordinator working in the Southern California Field Office, and is responsible for coordinating Region 9’s brownfields efforts by creating collaborative partnerships to share resources in an effort to revitalize communities across Region 9. Emeric-Ford has dedicated over eighteen years of service to the U.S. EPA, working in Region 9, Region 5 Chicago, IL and Washington, DC. In addition, Emeric-Ford spent four months on a special assignment working with a diverse group of stakeholders including growers, public agencies, electric companies and Tribes to develop a Total Maximum Daily Load Implementation Plan for the Klamath Basin in northern California to reduce nutrient discharges to the Lower Lost River.

In Region 5, Emeric-Ford served as a Regional Team Manager supporting innovative approaches to numerous environmental, quality of life and revitalization challenges in the St. Louis/ East St. Louis and Chicago metropolitan areas. She also has over seven years of experience in community involvement assisting over 60 communities to address Brownfields, Superfund, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) sites in communities across the Midwest. Emeric-Ford received the 2009 National Brownfields Award for her efforts at the Reno Sparks Indian Colony revitalization project. She was also awarded a Silver Medal for Commendable Service for implementing the first Superfund Job Training Initiative in the nation and a Gold Medal for her leadership in restoring and protecting East St. Louis’ community from lead contaminated soil.

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Christine Houston

Christine Houston is the Senior Environmental Remediation Specialist for the Port of Long Beach. She joined the Port of Long Beach after 17 years in consulting, including several years with USEPA’s Field Investigation Team. In the past 13 years at the Port, Houston has overseen and managed numerous site assessment and remediation projects. These projects addressed both landside and waterside cleanups of historical contamination in the Port. In addition, Houston is currently working on a remedial dredging project of contaminated sediments that resulted from historical Naval shipyard operations at property that was reverted to Long Beach after the closure of the base. Houston is also the lead for the implementation of the Port’s greenhouse gas reduction program, heads up a task force for renewable energy, and coordinates the Port’s efforts to ensure sustainable practices.

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Michael D. McMullen

Michael McMullen is the Vice President of Credit Risk Management for EnviroFinance Group, a commercial real estate lender working exclusively on brownfield properties nationwide. He has been working on all aspects to brownfields for his entire career, including as a lender, developer, a broker and underwriter of environmental insurance and as an engineering consultant. He has been a principal in the acquisition, development and sale of over $100 million in brownfields real estate and has underwritten in excess of $500 million in environmental insurance policies, including some of the first and most complex brownfields transactions completed in the United States.

Prior to joining EnviroFinance Group, McMullen was a principal at Renova Partners, a leading national brownfield developer, and managed Renova’s west coast operations. Previously he served as Vice President in the Environmental Practice of Marsh Risk and Insurance Services and as the Product Line Manager for Remediation Stop Loss and Complex Brownfield Projects for Zurich North America Environmental. He began his career with ARCADIS Geraghty & Miller where he managed the Denver environmental engineering practice and worked on many of the first guaranteed fixed price contracts offered by environmental consultants.

McMullen is a registered professional environmental engineer and has been a licensed insurance broker.

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