Brown and Caldwell CEO and leadership

Rich D'Amato is based in Parker, Colorado. He has worked as Exec VP/Head:Private Sector at Brown and Caldwell; Senior Vice President, Global Director of Business Development at Ch2m Hill; and Director, Industrial Skill Center & Global Business Group Developer at Ch2m Hill. Richard attended Clemson University between 1990 and 1992, University at Buffalo between 1988 and 1990, and Fuqua School of Business between 2002 and 2004.

Cindy Paulson is a Chief Technology Officer at Brown and Caldwell. She has worked as Senior Vice President at Brown and Caldwell.

Talent Management professional with recruitment, leadership development, executive coaching and organizational development experience.

Specialties: Ecology, Limnology, Water Quality, Fisheries Biology, Environmental Permitting and Compliance, Expert Witness Services

Hugh Pace is a Treasurer and Past-President at ISA CENAZ Board and Chief Electrical Engineer at Brown and Caldwell. He has worked as Electrical Department Manager at Carollo Engineers. Hugh attended Keller Graduate School of Managment between 1997 and 2000 and University of Washington.

Jayakumar Madhavan is a Chief Engineer at Brown and Caldwell and is based in Irvine, California. He has worked as Engineering Manager at Black & Veatch and Senior Engineer at Black & Veatch. Madhavan attended National University of Singapore between 2001 and 2003.

Joe Wong has more than 30 years of experience in water/wastewater treatment and reuse consulting for both municipal and industrial facilities. He specializes in advanced treatment technologies and is the primary author of approximately 100 technical papers and articles and four book chapters in the environmental field. He led the development and design of the first major membrane-based (UF/RO) in-plant water reuse system in the worldwide petrochemical industry, which has been operating successfully since 2000 (in Taiwan). He served as Desalination Committee Chair for CA-NV AWWA for 3 years and is the current Water Resources Division Chair. He is an active member of several national AWWA committees and served as reviewer and chapters coordinator for couple of recent AWWA manuals and the Water Treatment Plant Design Handbook, 5th edition. He is presently leading the effort to prepare a new AWWA manual (M62) entitled \'Membrane Applications for Water Reuse.\' He is a registered professional engineer in the states of California (ChE and CE), Florida (CE), and Washington (ChE), and is a Board Certified Environmental Engineer. He served as the president of Chinese American Environmental Professionals Association in 1998-99 and 2009-2010.

He is thankful to God and his employer (Brown and Caldwell) for his extracurricular professional accomplishments in 2012:

- published two articles in professional magazines and was second author of another article in the WER journal

- presented 8 papers in regional, national and international conferences (WQTC, WateReuse, WEFTEC, etc.)

- served on the program committee for California WateReuse Annual Conference and CA-NV AWWA Desalination Workshops, and as moderator for WEFTEC2012

- selected as Water Resources Division Chair for CA-NV AWWA and received Rock Star Award

- appointed AWWA Submcommitte Chair for preparing a new manual M62