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William J. Penn
President
Environmental Financial Advisor
Block Island, Rhode Island
Mr. Penn, an expert in environmental and real estate financing,
provides financial advisory services worldwide to nonprofit
organizations, businesses and governments and lectures widely.
He has worked frequently with foreign governments, the World Bank and USAID. Mr. Penn’s nonprofit clients have included World
Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy, Groundwork Lawrence,
Green Seal, Big Sur Land Trust, the Institute for Sustainable
Communities, and the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire
Forests. Mr. Penn has served as an adjunct professor at Baruch College and
volunteer Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Rhode Island
Water Resources Board and formerly as Chairman Preserve Rhode Island and past
Chairman of the Block Island Land Trust.
Mr. Penn began his career with the Chase Manhattan Bank after
graduating from Rutgers University College of Environmental
Science with a BS in Economics. Mr. Penn then served as Senior
Vice President of Fleet Bank of Rhode Island responsible for
domestic and international financial institution banking
business.
Stephen Soler
Treasurer
President, GLDC
Georgetown, Connecticut
Mr. Soler is widely recognized as an expert in Brownfield
Development with a specialty in financing acquisition and
remediation of Brownfield sites. Mr. Soler teaches investing in
and developing distressed real estate, has lectured and been
published across the country on a wide range of development,
environmental and financing issues. Mr. Soler is a graduate of
the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a member of the
American Planning Association.
Real Estate Development
NYU
New York, New York
Mr. Hersh is an internationally recognized expert in Brownfield
development and has participated in over fifty successful
Brownfield redevelopments. In addition to being a
Professor of Real Estate
Development at NYU, Mr. Hersh instructs members of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency on “What
Regulators Need to Know About Redevelopment.” Mr. Hersh has
also worked with the USEPA as facilitator of a Brownfields
training program for Czech, Polish and Hungarian professionals
and has spoken at numerous EPA and other conferences.
As a Faculty Associate of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mr. Hersh wrote “Real Estate Tax
Issues and Brownfields Redevelopment” in 2001 and his recent
research on New York City Brownfields received recognition for
Outstanding Scholarly Achievement. Mr. Hersh actively
participates in real estate projects with Flatiron Realty
Advisors, LLC. He is a member of the American Institute of
Certified Planners and earned a Masters Degree in Urban Planning
from New York University's Wagner School and a Bachelor’s degree
in Urban and Environmental Studies from the City University of
New York.
Niall Kirkwood
Director
Professor & Dept. Head of Landscape Architecture
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Niall G. Kirkwood is a Professor at the Graduate School of
Design, Harvard University and is founder and current Director
of the Center for Environment and Technology, (CTE) a research,
advisory and executive education initiative at HDS and focused
on international research, outreach and executive education on
post-industrial land. Kirkwood's research on global brownfields
is currently carried out on sites in Northern Ireland,
Netherlands, Israel, Mexico and Korea.
He is the author of
numerous publications including:
'Manufactured SItes: Rethinking
the Post-Industrial Landscape (London: EF Spon, 2001) and Why is
there Underdevelopment of Housing in Brownfields Redevelopment?
(Joint Center for Housing and Urbanization: Harvard Design
School and Kennedy School of Government, 2000). He served as a
Resource Specialist to the Mayor’s Institute for City Design on
Brownfields, 2000; he was a Member of the Professional Advisory
Committee on the End-use of Fresh Kills Landfill, Staten Island;
and was a NAOIP Distinguished Fellow for 2003.
Using risk-based approaches that limit remedial cost, Dr.
Frantzen serves clients by interfacing science, engineering and
planning to resolve complex property contamination matters.
With extensive risk assessment experience and with large
investigation/remediation project management experience, he is a
hands-on practitioner achieving high equity results for
clients. A biochemist by training, he has twenty years of
experience in environmental risk analysis (and ecological risk
assessment in particular), hazardous waste site / Brownfields
investigation / remediation, environmental R&D, and cost
accountable management. He has worked on state-led, Superfund,
DOE and DOD sites around the US.
Dr. Frantzen regularly lectures on
risk-based analysis, which emphasizes the integration of
environmental risk management with urban planning and financial
analysis, showing how end-state planning guides both the science
and engineering of remediation.
Education
PhD Life
Sciences/Biochemistry, Univ. Nebraska—Lincoln
MS Plant Pathology, Kansas State Univ. BS
Biology, Univ. Nebraska—Omaha
Registrations
Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM), 2007, #14143 |
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