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Vienna, VA (October 25, 2023) – Gershman, Brickner & Bratton, Inc. (GBB) is pleased to announce that Chris Lund, PE has been promoted to Executive Vice President to further his involvement in steering the firm’s management, development, and expansion.

“A veteran GBBer, and early member of the group transitioning ownership from the firm’s co-founders, Chris directly contributed to shaping the corporate culture, management, and development of GBB for the past decade,” said Steve Simmons, GBB President. “As Executive Vice President, he will continue to do so with expanded responsibilities, streamlining the decisional process and keeping the organization nimble as GBB grows and adjusts to the ever-shifting industry.”

“The last 15 years with GBB have been extremely fulfilling, both with helping clients find efficient, environmentally acceptable solutions to sustainable materials management issues, and with collaborating with a great multi-disciplined group of professionals passionate about the environment,” noted Mr. Lund. “I’m excited about the challenges and opportunities ahead and look forward to working closely with our ownership group and entrepreneurial team to further develop GBB to pursue our mission efficiently and in a rewarding way for all.”

Mr. Lund has over 30 years of environmental engineering and consulting experience with a unique perspective from both the regulated and regulatory sides, allowing him to help clients successfully navigate through materials management challenges arising from solid waste management landscape structural transformations, the emergence of Extended Producer Responsibility, material processing advances, and the evolution of citizens’ environmental priorities. As a GBB officer, he provides senior-level project management and oversight, strategic guidance, quality control to enhance deliverables, and subject matter expertise across the wide range of services offered by the firm.

Mr. Lund joined GBB in 2008 as a Senior Project Engineer, was promoted to Vice President in August 2009, became a part of GBB’s ownership group in March 2013, and was promoted to Senior Vice President in April 2015.

Since joining the firm, he has been leading multiple strategic solid waste management planning initiatives for clients in California, Utah, Oklahoma, Texas, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia, and Maryland, among many others. He is also a Receiver Representative for GBB which was appointed as Receiver for the Solid Waste Management Division of the Department of Public Works in Guam in a 2008 Court Order issued by the United States District Court of Guam. As such, working closely with local authorities and stakeholders, he is a key contributor to the 180-degree turnaround of the Guam solid waste management system, establishing a long-term, financially viable, and sustainable waste management system on the island.

Before joining GBB, he was a consulting engineer for 13 years, Chief Engineer at the Guam Environmental Protection Agency for six years, and Engineer Tech at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Engineering, for three years.

Mr. Lund holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. Based in Southern Virginia, he can be reached at clund@gbbinc.com or (703) 663-2435.

About GBB

GBB is a carbon-neutral, award-winning, national solid waste management consulting and planning firm founded in 1980 that helps public and private entities solve their most challenging waste and material management issues. GBB’s mission is to provide safe, innovative, responsible, sustainable, and economic strategies and solutions to benefit communities and the environment. GBB advises clients on solid waste collection, processing, recycling, recovery, sustainable materials management, and environmentally responsible disposal and assists in planning, procuring, and implementing sound, cost-effective facilities, and services.

GBB’s Vision:
A world where discarded materials are used as resources rather than wasted.

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