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Todd Alexander

Mr. Alexander is president of Continental Building Systems and has worked in the industry for over 20 years.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from The Ohio State University and is a LEED Accredited Professional.

Mr. Alexander serves on the board of directors for the Builders Exchange of Central Ohio where he has also served on the Cornerstone Review Committee and as a Safety Awards Judge. He is a member of the task force developing the initiative to Build an Environment for Success Together (BEST). He has also served as the board liaison for the BX Awards, Education and Safety departments. He is also serving on the Partners in Construction Task Force, a local initiative of ASA.

Alexander also helped create the Tyler Ludwig Leadership Award scholarship fund which is administered by the Builders Exchange Foundation. He is also a member of the St. Edwards Church finance committee.

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Eric A. Berg, Esq.

Mr. Berg is a partner in the law firm of DLA Piper in Chicago, Illinois, where he focuses his practice on construction law, in both transactional and litigation work.

As a litigator, Mr. Berg has represented contractors, subcontractors, owners, architects, engineers, and lenders. His transactional work includes drafting and negotiating contracts for the design, construction, rehabilitation, and construction management of hotels, hospitals, office buildings, apartment buildings, private residences, retail stores, factories, and warehouses.

Mr. Berg holds membership in the American Bar Association Forum on the Construction Industry, the Chicago Bar Association, and is a widely published author and speaker in the field of construction law. In 2007, Mr. Berg was ranked by his peers and clients as a leader in his field in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Power Construction, eBay, and Cisco Systems are among his clients.

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Bruce D'Agostino, CAE

Mr. D’Agostino is President & CEO of the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) in McLean, VA. CMAA is North America’s only organization dedicated exclusively to the interests of professional program and construction management.

During Mr. D’Agostino's tenure, the Association has increased its membership from less than 1,000 in 1999 to more than 4,500, and seen the number of certified construction managers increase from 78 to almost 1,000. Mr. D’Agostino has created the CMAA University with professional development programs and online education to help construction managers increase their professional knowledge. He has also established a government affairs department to protect and advocate on behalf of members.       

Mr. D’Agostino has written extensively on association management and construction-related topics for many publications and newsletters, including Association Management, Executive Update, Engineering News Record, and the Construction Business Review.

He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Loyola College in Baltimore, and received graduate certificates in association management from the University of Delaware and business management from The American University in Washington DC.

Mr. D’Agostino earned his certified association executive designation (CAE) from the American Society of Association Executives and is accredited by the Public Relations Society of America. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME).

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Patrick Duffy

Mr. Duffy has been active with Construction Users Roundtable (CURT) since 2002 and is currently the chairman of CURT's Education and Implementation Committee. He is also the Past President of the Florida Construction Users Roundtable (FCURT).

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Luke Faulkner

Mr. Faulkner received a bachelor of science in Building Construction Technology from Purdue University.

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Larry Filson, P.E.

Mr. Filson is the Engineering Director at Walbridge Aldinger. He is a seasoned professional with over 25 years of experience related to design and construction of industrial and commercial facilities. Mr. Filson is responsible for developing new applications to link the BIM model to commissioning and other databases. Mr. Filson will explain how BIM is a lean construction tool that is used for design decision-making, the production of high-quality construction documents, predicting performance, cost-estimating, and construction planning. 

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Anthonio C. Fiore, Esq.

His specific areas of concentration include workers’ compensation, unemployment compensation, employment law, OSHA regulations, labor relations, immigration, insurance, tort reform and other general human resource issues. Mr. Fiore speaks to several local chambers and business organizations each year and serves as the Chamber’s point person in responding to print, radio and television media inquiries from local, state and national outlets regarding the aforementioned issues.  

In addition to his lobbying duties, he serves as the staff liaison for the Chamber’s Workers’ Compensation, Employment Law, and Education & Workforce Development Committees. He assists the committees in performing their mission, which includes forming the policy the Chamber takes on legislation, and developing solutions for long and short-term problems.  Tony also serves as Ohio’s liaison to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on labor, employment and legal reform issues.    

Mr. Fiore previously worked for the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation as the executive assistant to BWC Administrator/CEO Jim Conrad, as well as, serving as an aide to both Senator Doug White and Senator Nancy Chiles Dix.  He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from The Ohio State University where he majored in International Business and minored in Italian. Mr. Fiore obtained his Juris Doctorate Degree from Capital University Law School. He is a member of the Ohio and Federal Bar. 

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Doug Gatlin

Mr. Gatlin joined USGBC in 2006 as Director of LEED for Existing Buildings and the Council’s new Portfolio Initiative, and has 15 years of experience in energy and environmental policy and has worked on climate change response strategies and voluntary pollution prevention programs for most of his career. 

Prior to joining the Council, Mr. Gatlin worked for nearly 10 years at US EPA, where he served as a manager for ENERGY STAR Commercial Buildings program. Prior to joining EPA, Mr. Gatlin was a project manager at the Washington, DC based Climate Institute, where he managed the Energy Smart Cities campaign and supported US Department of Energy in their launch of the Rebuild America program. 

Mr. Gatlin has authored papers on climate change response, energy efficiency program design, and energy project financing. He holds a Bachelors in Political Science from Duke University and a Masters in Public Policy from Georgetown.

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Donald W. Gregory

Mr. Gregory currently serves as general counsel to the American Subcontractors Association (“ASA”), and to several international construction trade associations. A director with the law firm of Kegler, Brown, Hill & Ritter in Columbus, Ohio, Mr. Gregory chairs the firm’s Litigation and Construction Law areas.

He has been actively involved as a third party neutral and advocate in ADR procedures, including mediation and arbitration, and currently serves on the AAA “Blue Ribbon Panel” of arbitrators for complex construction disputes.

Mr. Gregory initiated the legislation that resulted in Ohio’s New Mechanic’s Lien law and drafted Ohio’s first Prompt Payment Act, which has become a model for several other states. He also helped negotiate, draft and pass Ohio’s Fairness in Construction Contracting Act.

The only Central Ohio attorney named to Business First’s “Who’s Who in Construction, Architecture and Engineering,” Mr. Gregory is regularly recognized as one of America’s Leading Business (Construction) Lawyers by Chambers USA, Best Lawyers in America, Who’s Who in International Construction Lawyers, and other publications.

Mr. Gregory graduated cum laude from Miami University and received his law degree from The Ohio State University.

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Donald B. Leach, Jr., Esq.

Mr. Leach is a partner with the law firm of Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP in Columbus where he is a member and past-chair of the Real Estate and Construction Practice Group. He served as managing partner of the Columbus office for nine years and on the firm’s Board of Managers for six years. 

Mr. Leach’s practice focus is on construction law. He is a past chair of the Construction Law Committee of the Columbus Bar Association and was the 1996 President of the Builders Exchange of Central Ohio. He is the first practicing attorney to ever serve in the latter capacity and was the 2003 recipient of the BX Cornerstone Award, which recognizes a construction professional whose civic and industry contributions have made a positive impact on the construction industry and central Ohio community. 

During the last 25 years Mr. Leach has been actively involved in the representation of owners, lenders, contractors, subcontractors and suppliers in construction contracting and dispute related matters. He authored the chapter on mechanics’ liens in Baldwin’s Ohio Practice: Ohio Real Estate Law (West 2003).

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John Linenberg, P.E.

Mr. Linenberg is Senior Engineering Manager at Walbridge Aldinger. He is an experienced professional with over 15 years of design and construction experience for major engineering / construction projects. He incorporates his professional experience as a Project / Engineering Manager on industrial projects for a national Architectural and Engineering organization in his current position at Walbridge. 

Mr. Linenberg is the Committee Chair for the Walbridge Aldinger BIM initiative. He also co-authored the AGC publication The Contractors’ Guide to BIM.

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Teresa Magnus, CPA

Ms. Magnus is the Construction Contract Strategy Manager for the Southern Company, one of the largest generators of electricity in the nation, serving both regulated and competitive markets across the southeastern United States, with more than 41,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity.

Ms. Magus’s career has been focused on planning and management of major construction programs and the prevention, as well as, resolution of complex claims. She has also served as a consultant with both Price Waterhouse and Arthur Andersen in dispute resolution services, focusing primarily on large, complex construction disputes for contractors, subcontractors, and owners. 

Currently enrolled in the Juris Doctorate program at Samford University Cumberland School of Law, Ms. Magnus earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accountancy from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She is a CPA licensed in Ohio, and is a member of the Construction Users Roundtable (CURT), the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC), and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).

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Robert E. Middlebrooks, AIA

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Jack Mumma, J.D.

Mr. Mumma is on the board of directors of the Construction Owners Association of America, Inc. (COAA), where he currently serves as president. 

Since 1996, Mr. Mumma has been the Construction Contract Administrator for Michigan State University. His responsibilities include procurement and contract administration of major construction and design projects, implementation and process definition of the University’s capital projects management information system, and process improvement/quality for the planning, design and construction processes at MSU. Mr. Mumma teaches at MSU’s School of Planning, Design and Construction.  Prior to joining to MSU, he was a contracting officer for the Office of Naval Research.  Mr. Mumma holds a JD from DePaul University in Chicago, and Bachelors Degree in Philosophy from St. Mary’s of the Barrens in Perryville, MO.

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E. Colette Nelson

Ms. Nelson is executive vice president of the American Subcontractors Association, Inc. (ASA), a national association representing more than 5,000 subcontractors in all the construction trades, where she manages all facets of the association’s membership, government and industry relations, public relations, education, and member and chapter services.

During her tenure with ASA, Ms. Nelson has been actively involved in most of the major issues impacting the construction industry, including small business development, government procurement, labor-management relations and taxes. She has served as the lead industry representative on the key issues of prompt payment and bonding of construction contractors and subcontractors.  

Ms. Nelson serves on the board of directors of the Foundation of the American Subcontractors Association, the American Council for Construction Education and the Small Business Legislative Council, for which she is a past chair. She also has served as a director for the American Society of Association Executives and the American Institute of Constructors Constructor Certification Commission.

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Brian Perlberg, Esq.

Mr. Perlberg graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law and the University of Maryland Honors Program, College Park, and is a member of the bar in Maryland and the District of Columbia.

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Gregory L. Sizemore

Mr. Sizemore is the Executive Vice President of The Construction Users Roundtable and has over twenty years of construction industry and association management experience. He served for three years as the Director for Labor Relations at the Associated General Contractor’s and Allied Construction Industries in Cincinnati, Ohio.  For eighteen years, Mr. Sizemore was the Executive Director of the Construction Owners Association of the Tri-State (COATS) in Cincinnati, OH, which is recognized as one of the leading local user councils in the country. 

In 1989, Mr. Sizemore started Sizemore & Company, LLC, a construction industry association management and consulting firm. He serves on various industry and civic boards including the University of Cincinnati’s Industrial Advisory Council, the Advisory Committee to the Albany Technical College and the West Virginia Construction Coalition Conference, and is an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati, where he teaches construction law and leadership and decision making classes.

Mr. Sizemore holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and a Master of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations from the University of Cincinnati. He earned his Juris Doctor from The Northern Kentucky University, Salmon P. Chase College of Law and is a licensed attorney in the State of Ohio.

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Michael D. Tarullo, Esq.

As a Principal at the law firm of Schottenstein, Zox & Dunn, Mr. Tarullo serves as Coordinator of the Construction Practice Area. He gives regular presentations for various organizations locally and nationally on project documentation and risk management. Mr. Tarullo's other leadership activities include extensive involvement at the Builders Exchange of Central Ohio where he currently serves as board President; Design Build Institute of America and Ohio Valley Chapter, Board of Directors 2001-2003; member of Associated General Contractors of Ohio and Ohio Contractors Association. Mr. Tarullo is a fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers, one of only two in Ohio.

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Rachel Yeomans

Ms. Yeomans is a Total Solutions Specialist for McGraw-Hill Construction. Working to bridge the gap between product and customer, she is well versed in the needs of the construction industry.

Yeomans is an active member of AIA, AGC and CoreNet. She has been a member of SMPS Chicago Chapter for three years; recently joining the chapter’s Events Committee.

Most recently, Yeomans has attained certification in McGraw-Hill Construction’s newest and most innovative product to date, Project Document Management (PDM.)  She is thrilled to be a part of the team that brings this product to the Ohio Construction Conference.

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His work has been honored by The American Institute of Architects with numerous Distinguished Architecture Awards. In 1988 he received a National AIA Award for Feinberg Hall, a dormitory at Princeton University and in 1989, the firm again won a National AIA Award, this time for the Spiegel Pool House addition. In 1992 Williams and Tsien won two more National AIA Awards, this time for the Quandt Loft and for the Go Silk Showroom both in New York City. In 1997 the firm won a National Honor Award for the Neurosciences Institute. In 2001 they received 2 National AIA honor Awards for the Williams Natatorium at Cranbrook School and The Rifkind House in Long Island.

He and partner, Billie Tsien, have been recipients of several grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. Williams has served on the Architectural Advisory Committee for Princeton University, the New York City and National AIA Awards Committees, and as Director of The Architectural League. In 1992 he was made a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects.

Tod Williams started his career by working for Richard Meier from 1967-1973 and has been registered since 1972. He has been principal of his own firm for the last twenty-nine years and in 1986 formed the partnership of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. The studio is well known for its wide range of projects, its exceptionally high standards, and work which emphasizes the importance of place and explores the nature of materials.

Mr. Williams' work has been published extensively and he has authored a number of articles. A monograph entitled Work/Life, published by Monacelli Press, was released in the fall of 2000.

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