Company Leadership & Featured Experts
GBB believes that solid waste is a valuable resource that can be creatively managed – while protecting our soil, air, water and people – and this is our passion, and our focus. Learn more about GBB’s senior management team, our featured experts, and co-founders’ extensive expertise and the shared passion for innovative, sustainable solid waste management solutions:
Senior Management
Harvey W. Gershman
Chairman, President, Founder Owner Associate and Co-Founder
Key Areas of Expertise:
Strategic Thinking and Planning / Procurement and Negotiation Assistance / System Administration / Change Management / Project Financing Coordination
- BS, Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Christopher A. Lund, P.E.
Executive Vice President
Key Areas of Expertise:
Comprehensive planning for waste systems / Procurement / Engineering technical system reviews
- BS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
- SWANA Certification: Managing Integrated Solid Waste Management Systems
Featured GBB Experts
Led by a Senior Management group with extensive experience and expertise, GBB’s team of professionals has a shared passion for the environment. Through their complementary backgrounds, skills and expertise, GBB experts are recognized as industry thought leaders who work seamlessly together and treat clients’ challenges as their own. Collectively, they have a single focus: developing innovative, sustainable solid waste management solutions.
Bradley Kelley, BSME
Senior Project Engineer
Key Areas of Expertise:
Processing systems and equipment evaluations and designs / Mixed waste processing / Waste characterization studies
- Mechanical Engineering Post-Graduate, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
- BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Steven Schilling, P.E.
Senior Project Manager
Key Areas of Expertise:
Strategic solid waste management planning / Environmental engineering / Sustainable materials management
- BS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Becky Caldwell, MBA, S.C.
Project Manager
Key Areas of Expertise:
Strategic Solid Waste Management Planning / Environmental Planning / Sustainable Materials Management / Recycling / Grant proposal development
- MBA, University of Phoenix
- BBA, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY
Ricky Phillips
Senior Consultant
Key Areas of Expertise:
Sustainability initiatives / Community outreach / Waste composition studies / Research
- MS, Sustainable Communities, Binghamton University, NY
- BA, Studio Art, State University of New York at Potsdam, NY
- TRUE Advisor (Total Resource Use and Efficiency) from Green Business Certification Inc.
- OSHA 30-Hour Construction Program
- HAZWOPER 24-Hour for All Industries certification from ClickSafety
Co-Founders
Robert H. Brickner
Co-Founder
BS, Civil Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, PA
Timothy J. Bratton
Co-Founder
MBA, University of Pittsburgh, PA
BS, Biology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA
Our Vision:
A world where discarded materials are used as resources rather than wasted.
Our Mission:
We help our clients solve solid waste management issues by providing innovative, responsible, sustainable, and economical strategies and solutions for the benefit of communities and the environment.