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Steve Edwards is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Black & Veatch. Edwards assumed this position in November 2013 and has overall responsibility for the company's engineering, consulting, construction and related infrastructure businesses in the power, oil and gas, water, telecommunications, and security markets worldwide. With revenues of $3 billion, Black & Veatch is consistently ranked in the Top 10 categories for power generation, power delivery, water infrastructure development and telecommunications in Engineering News-Record magazine and is ranked in the Top 150 of the Forbes list of Largest Private Companies. The company is the 12th largest employee-owned corporation in the United States, according to the National Center for Employee Ownership. Since joining Black & Veatch in 1978, Edwards has been responsible for a variety of global projects and business lines. He was named Chief Operating Officer in March 2013 in a transition role before becoming Chairman and CEO. He was appointed to the Black & Veatch Board of Directors in 2012. Edwards is a registered professional engineer and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri.

I was appointed Group Chief Executive Officer in December 2008 and joined the Board as Managing Director in March 2009.I joined Lendlease in 2005. Prior to my current role, I was Group Finance Director, appointed in March 2007 and Chief Executive Officer for Lendlease’s Investment Management business from September 2005 to December 2007. I have more than 25 years’ experience in real estate, funds management, investment banking and capital markets transactions. Prior to joining Lendlease, I spent six years at ABN AMRO, where my roles included Head of Property, Head of Industrial Mergers & Acquisitions and Head of Equity Capital Markets for Australia and New Zealand. Previous roles also include Head of Property at Bankers’ Trust, four years as a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Freehills and four years in taxation accounting.I hold a Bachelor of Economics (Finance major) and a Bachelor of Laws from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

Jonathon Held has been associated with the company for 34 years. During that period he has overseen the growth of the firm from a small regional two man consulting company into an internationally respected organization with global reach. Held has consulted on many of the largest and most complex catastrophic insurance claims in history, including the 1993 and 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in NY, the litigation between Firestone/Bridgestone and its insurers for damages sustained to the Harbel Rubber plantation during the Liberian Civil War, the AOL Time Warner Center fire in NY, and many of the worlds most visible claims. He is widely considered the expert of choice in large complex “bet the farm” cases. Held has testified in numerous courts throughout the United States. He also has an unparalleled reputation in the dispute resolution arena, having been an appraiser, arbitrator and umpire. He was the party appointed appraiser in the four largest claims ever to be resolved in the appraisal process. Held is also widely sought as both an industry educator and author, having spoken at numerous conferences, and written a number of published papers in his areas of expertise.