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Ellen Dunham-Jones, Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology; Author, Retrofitting Suburbia

David Sisam, Principal, Montgomery Sisam

Santiago Kunzle, Principal, Montgomery Sisam

Marina Khoury, Partner, Director of Town Planning, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company

Tony Recsei, President, Save Our Suburbs (Australia)

Peter Braster, Transit Oriented Development Manager, City of Carrollton, TX

Don Grant, Senior Consultant, Sustainability, Stantec

Ralph Giannone, Partner, Giannone Petricone Associates

Antonio Gomez-Palacio, Partner, Office for Urbanism

Dave Moore, Partner, pellow + associates architects

Daniel Leeming, Partner, The Planning Partnership

Pino Di Mascio, Partner, Urban Strategies

Paul Moore, Transportation Planner, Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin, Atlanta, GA

Jennifer Keesmaat, Partner, Office for Urbanism

John Wasik, Author, Cul-de-sac Syndrome, Chicago, IL

Greg Ault, Principal, EDAW , Miami Beach, FL

Charlie McConnell, Director of Planner, City of Oakville

David Sisam,
Principal,
Montgomery Sisam

A founding partner of Montgomery Sisam Architects, David Sisam has over 30 years of experience in a wide range of building types. He has directed the design of several of the firm’s award winning projects including the Humber River Bicycle Pedestrian Bridge, Cardinal Ambrozic Houses of Providence and the Arts and Administration Building at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus.

David was the Principal-in-Charge for the Peter D. Clark Centre in Nepean Ontario, the first health care facility in Canada to receive a Federal Commercial Building Incentive Program grant for achieving energy savings of more than 25% below the National Model Energy Code. He also led the design team for the George and Kathy Dembroski Centre for Horticultural Excellence at the Toronto Botanical Garden, which won the 2006 Green Toronto Award for design and became only the second building in Toronto to receive LEED Silver certification.

David has recently been focusing on the impact of urban form on public health and sustainable design . David has given numerous lectures on this subject for the Federated Press, St. Lawrence Forum and the Green Building Festival on creating a sustainable and health community.

An assistant professor at the University of Toronto, School of Architecture from 1972 to 1983, David has been a visiting instructor and lecturer at the Dalhousie University in Halifax and a visiting critic at the University of Waterloo and Ryerson University. David is a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.

Santiago Kunzle,
Principal,
Montgomery Sisam

A principal of Montgomery Sisam Architects, Santiago Künzle seeks to ensure that environmentally sustainable design choices are made throughout the firm’s work. His knowledge of the LEED® Green Building Rating System allows him to efficiently guide clients and consultants through an integrated design process focused on simple, low-cost design solutions that drive high performance sustainability outcomes.

Santiago was the Principal-in-Charge for the Restoration Services Centre, for the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, the first building in Eastern Canada to be LEED® Platinum Certified. Santiago is also the principal in charge of the Don Mount Court Regeneration – Rivertowne, a 410 mixed Rent Geared to Income and Market housing project in downtown Toronto that received the 2007 best low rise development award from the GTA Home builder’s Association. He is currently working on two other projects that are pursuing LEED® certification and has recently completed a report for the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care on the implementation of sustainable design strategies in long term care facilities. A frequent speaker at conferences on issues of sustainable building, Santiago was named as a delegate to the World Green Building Council and participated in the 8th International Congress in London, England in 2008.

Tony Recsei,
President,
Save Our Suburbs (Australia)

Dr Tony Recsei has a background in chemistry and is an environmental consultant. He has a BSc Chemistry and Zoology from Rhodes University, South Africa, a Masters degree in Engineering Science in Waste Management and a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of New South Wales.

Dr Recsei was chief executive of a South African pharmaceutical manufacturing company employing 200 people for 25 years .He is a past president of the Border Chamber of Industries. In Australia he has specialized in the decontamination of contaminated sites and has worked on many of the larger contaminated sites in Sydney. Since retiring he has taken an interest in community affairs and is president of the Save Our Suburbs community group which opposes over-development forced onto communities by the State Government.

Dr Recsei has a commercial pilots licence and is Past President of the Royal Aero Club of New South Wales. He has been chairman of the Turramurra Zone Salvation Army Red Shield collection for some 20 years and is a committee member of the Sydney Mozart Society.

Peter Braster,
Transit Oriented Development Manager,
City of Carrollton, TX

After completing a national search, Carrollton selected Peter Braster as the city’s first Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Manager. As TOD Manager, Peter is responsible for the development and redevelopment of Carrollton immediately around the Green Line Light Rail Transit Stations. In addition, he manages the use of the Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone.

Peter has over 23 years of public and private experience in engineering large transportation projects including highway, airport, and light rail systems, managing real property, real estate acquisition, public administration and governmental relations. In his position as TOD Manager, Mr. Braster plays an integral role in the City’s development process advocating for smart development. He is currently overseeing the City’s public/ private partnership with Trammel Crow High Street Residential. The first project of the partnership is a $38 million 295-unit apartment building in Downtown Carrollton.

Mr. Braster holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York. He has worked both in New York and California. Mr. Braster is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Urban Land Institute, Congress for New Urbanism, and the Center for Transit-Oriented Development.

Daniel Leeming,
Partner,
The Planning Partnership

Dan is a founding partner of The Planning Partnership and has worked on the design and development of new towns and various sizes of planned communities for private and public agencies throughout Ontario and the United States over his 35 years of experience. His areas of expertise include community planning, from regional to neighbourhood scale with the application of urban design, sustainable initiatives and facilitation to create meaningful and complete communities while satisfying the needs of the marketplace. Many of his projects have received awards not only from Provincial and National Planning Associations, but from private sector building and development organizations.

Dan also works with various universities, is an adjunct professor at the University of Guelph, and teaches
Urban Design at the University of Toronto. He has also authored several articles for the Ontario Planning
Journal on topics such as changing energy needs, public health and urban design, our aging society and
innovation in community design.

As an active a founding member of the Urban Design Working Group within the Ontario Professional Planners Institute, as well as the new national organization on Canadian Urbanism (CanU), he is currently a member of the Toronto Urban Design Review Board, the Mississauga Urban Design Advisory Panel, in addition to the Canadian LEED-ND review committee.

Paul Moore,
Transportation Planner,
Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin, Atlanta, GA

Paul is an engineer and planner with Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin, Inc. in Atlanta, GA. Paul is involved in the oversight and management of major urban design, land use and transportation planning and engineering projects.

Paul’s philosophy towards transportation planning is balanced and recognizes the interrelationship between land use and transportation. This approach broadens the definition of transportation planning to focus on the movement of people - by automobile, transit, bicycling, and walking. This approach also recognizes the value of improving the quality of trip as well as utilizing land use solutions to assist in resolving transportation problems.

Paul has 20 years of experience in developing major transportation and transit planning projects, small area planning and redevelopment studies, and livable transportation solutions. He has experience with clients including the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority, the City of Atlanta, the Ada County (Idaho) Highway Department and the Triangle Transit Authority (Raleigh, NC), among others. He has also completed Transportation Plans for the following Georgia Counties: Cobb, Gordon, Camden, Dawson and the City of Roswell. In addition Paul has worked on significant private developments including Atlantic Station and the Northeast Beltline corridor in Atlanta and Tampa Heights in Tampa, FL.

John Wasik,
Author,
Cul-de-sac Syndrome, Chicago, IL

As the award-winning author of 13 books, Wasik has spoken to crowds from coast to coast on investing, retirement and protecting your money. As a personal finance columnist for Bloomberg News, the world's third-largest news service, his columns reach 400 newspapers on five continents and have appeared in The Financial Times, International Herald-Tribune, Washington Post, Orange County Register and other papers in Canada, Europe, Japan, South America and Africa.

He's also appeared on NBC, NPR, PBS, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, CNNfn, Bloomberg TV and radio and on hundreds of TV and radio stations across the country. He earned his B.A. (psychology) and M.A. (communications) from the University of Illinois-Chicago and resides north of Chicago with his wife and two daughters.

As former special projects editor for Consumers Digest magazine, he has won 18 awards for his columns and investigative reporting, including the National Press Club award for Consumer Journalism. He has spoken at the New York Money Show, the National Home Center Show and the University of Chicago Business School. He is also a popular lecturer on investing at the University of Chicago's Graham School.
Wasik also has contributed to Reader's Digest, The New York Times, Modern Maturity, Parade, Smart Money, Popular Science, Health, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, Barron's, The Chicago Tribune and newspapers across North America.

His books include:

• The Audacity of Help
• The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome
• iMoney
• The Merchant of Power (2006)
• The Bear-Proof Investor (Owl, 2002)
• The Kitchen-Table Investor (Holt, 2001)
• Retire Early and Live the Life You Want Now (Holt, 2000)
• The Late-Start Investor (Holt, 1999)
• The Green Company Resource Guide (NCI, 1997)
• The Investment Club Book (Warner, 1996)
• Green Marketing & Management: A Global Perspective (Blackwell, 1996)
• The Green Supermarket Shopping Guide (Warner, 1995)
• The Electronic Business Information Sourcebook (Wiley, 1987)

Greg Ault,
Principal,
EDAW , Miami Beach, FL

Mr. Ault currently serves as Managing Principal of the Miami office of EDAW/AECOM, one of the world’s largest and most recognized planning, landscape architecture and urban design firms. His career encompasses over 28 years of international experience as a senior planner, landscape architect, and project manager. His work with large-scale, complex mixed-use urban projects has focused on the conceptual stages of retail, office and residential planning. Implemented projects range from Fortune 500 world headquarters to waterfront master plans to detailed urban streetscape designs.

Mr. Ault earned his Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from Purdue University. He has served in various teaching and lecturing capacities including Instructor, Office of Executive Education, Harvard University; Landscape Architecture Design Studio Speaker, at Ball State University, Michigan State University, and Purdue University; Guest Lecturer at Catholic University in Washington, D.C.; and Community Planning Studio Critic, Harvard University Graduate School.

Mr. Ault has received a number of awards for his work from various groups including the ULI & The Smart Growth Alliance for the 2005 Metro West Urban Design Plan, the American Planning Association in 2005 for the Naval Station ROTA Regional Shore Infrastructure Plan in Rota, Spain, and the Low Impact Development Center in 2007 for Wilmington, NC, 2007

Mr. Ault’s presentations include: “Urban Boomers and Urban Regeneration” at the National Association on Aging, Chicago, IL, 2007; “Real Estate Opportunities in the Capital Hill Area,” US House and Senate Appropriations Committees, 2002; and “Security in the National Capital,” National American Planning Association Panel, Washington, DC, 2004. He is also the author of “Baby Boomers: Helping to Shape the Future of Urban Regeneration” Multi Family Trends, Urban Land Institute, June, 2007. Mr. Ault recently was one of the principal moderators of a two-day forum “Low Carbon, Low Water Development in a Recovering Market” in Atlanta, GA