The Evolving PFAS Landscape

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Panelists
DENNIS STOLLE
PARTNER
Barnes &amp; Thornburg
National trial strategist and psychologist Dr. Dennis Stolle is the president and a founder of ThemeVision LLC, a jury research and litigation consulting firm affiliated with Barnes &amp; Thornburg. Dennis has studied the jury decision-making process and the psychology of trial strategy for more than two decades and has interviewed more than 4,000 mock jurors. His clients include large companies and law firms, where he focuses on communicating to a lay jury the complex, big-picture issues in high-stakes litigation, such as MDLs, class actions, IP disputes and mass torts.
  
KURT THIEDE
REGION 5 ADMINISTRATOR &amp; GREAT LAKES NATIONAL PROGRAM MANAGER
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Kurt Thiede serves as the Regional Administrator for EPA Region 5. His responsibilities include overseeing environmental protection efforts in the Great Lakes states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin, as well as 35 federally recognized tribal governments. One of his roles is manager of EPA’s Great Lakes National Program, in which he leads restoration and protection of the largest freshwater system in the world. Previously, he was the chief of staff for the Region, fostering strong partnerships to promote collaborative environmental protection efforts.
Prior to joining EPA, Mr. Thiede served as deputy secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources from 2015 to 2017. As deputy, he served as the chief operations officer for the agency, overseeing a $500 million annual operating budget and providing leadership and direction to the agency’s 2,400 full-time employees. He served on the Governor’s Management Cabinet and oversaw the agency’s organizational realignment, and biennial budget setting process. He is an 18-year veteran of WDNR, and previously spent four years as the administrator for the Land Division, where he was responsible for Wisconsin’s state parks and trails programs, wildlife managment, endangered resources, public land managment, land acquisitions, capitol development, and land use and recreational planning programs.
Throughout his 20-year state and federal career he has promoted the concepts of collaboration, creative problem-solving, common-sense decision-making, and active stakeholder engagement. Mr. Thiede has a Bachelor of Science degree in wildlife management and biology from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, and in 2016 he received an outstanding alumnus award from their school of natural resources.
 
MIKE MC GILL
PRESIDENT
WaterPIO
Mike founded WaterPIO, a public relations firm dedicated to helping water utilities of all sizes improve their customer, media, and crisis communications.  Previously, Mike McGill directed public information and customer service operations for water utilities for a dozen years.  
  
E. CHASE DRESSMAN
PARTNER
Taft
As the leader of Taft’s Cincinnati Environmental Practice Group, Chase represents a diverse range of clients, including chemical manufacturers and processors (with particular experience in the pesticide industry), retail and wholesale distributors, utilities, industrial manufacturers, automotive and transportation businesses, and real estate developers.  Chase is an experienced environmental litigator and transactional attorney, having served as lead counsel on numerous multi-million-dollar cases and led environmental due diligence on dozens of deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars.  
  
DEBRA G. COY
PARTNER
XPV Water Partners
Debra Coy is a Partner with XPV Water Partners, the largest water-focused growth equity fund in North America, with $400 million in assets under management. She works with growth companies utilizing her experience as a top-ranked investment research analyst and strategic consultant to investors, companies, and municipal utilities.
 
ROBERT W. HARE, P.E.
CLEANUP MANAGER
RACER Trust
Robert W. Hare manages all aspects of site investigations; design and implementation of remedial project work; and integrating remedial project work with redevelopment activities at Trust properties in six states. Mr. Hare has more than 40 years of experience with environmental compliance and remediation at automotive manufacturing facilities, including Director of Environmental for Motors Liquidation Company, overseeing environmental operations of the GMC bankruptcy estate and managing remediation projects in Michigan and New Jersey. For the past 8 plus years Mr. Hare has managed remediation projects at former GMC properties in six states.  In addition, he has co-published various papers on wastewater treatment and remediation and is the recipient of the Ohio Water Environment Association F.H. Waring award for outstanding contributions to the industrial wastewater field (1992). He is a registered Professional Engineer in Ohio.
  
LINDA LEE Ph.D.
PROFESSOR OF AGRONOMY
Purdue University
Linda S. Lee is a professor in the Purdue University Department of Agronomy; Program Head for the Ecological Sciences &amp; Engineering Interdisciplinary Graduate Program; and a Faculty Affiliate in the Division of Environmental Ecological Engineering. Her research focuses on understanding the processes that govern environmental fate and remediation of contaminants in various media for use in mitigating contamination, decision tools and management guidelines in both industrial and agricultural settings. 
 
RAYMOND BALL
PRESIDENT &amp; PRINCIPAL ENGINEER
EnChem Engineering Inc.
Raymond Ball, Ph.D., P.E., L.S.P. is president and principal engineer at EnChem Engineering. He has 36 years of consulting experience in the environmental industry that includes risk and project management, strategy development, and in situ remedial design and implementation services for complex hazardous waste site remediation projects such as those occurring at fuel and chemical release sites.
  
HENRIK HAGEMANN
CEO &amp; CO-FOUNDER
PurAffinity
Henrik completed his MEng at Imperial College London where he co-developed a platform for production of targeted nanocellulose and founded PurAffinity, a company that makes novel adsorbent biomaterials for targeted binding of micropollutants in wastewater, enabling the circular economy and treatment of PFAS.  Henrik is a serial entrepreneur in the environmental sector, has trained as a full-time Kung Fu student at a Shaolin wushu school in Henan, China, and bicycled the Silk Route from China to Denmark in 87 days.

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