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Robert P. Thornton
Executive Editor
Monica Westerlund
Technical Editor
Anthony Mirabella
Advertising Sales
Tanya Kozel
Art Director
Dick Garrison
Editorial Advisory Committee
Ray DuBose
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mike Goff
Stanford University
Joe Hoose
Cool Systems, Inc.
Jack Kattner
Kattner Associates
Doug Maust
HGA Architecture Engineering Planning
Steve Spiwak
Nalco Company
David Woods
Energy Systems Company of Omaha
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Board of Directors
2008-2009
Executive Committee
Chair
DENNIS FOTINOS
Enwave Energy Corporation
181 University Ave, Ste 1710
Toronto, ONT M5H 3M7
Canada
(416) 338-8912
dfotinos@enwave.com
Vice Chair
JUAN MANUEL ONTIVEROS
University of Texas at Austin
PO Drawer 7850
Austin, TX 78713
(512) 232-4191
juano@mail.utexas.edu
Second Vice Chair
DAVID TOOMBS
Citizens Thermal Energy
366 Kentucky Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46225
(317) 693-8805
dtoombs@cgcu.com
Secretary/Treasurer
TOM GUGLIELMI
NRG Thermal LLC
Suite 2600
80 S. 8th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402
(612) 436-4106
tom.guglielmi@nrgenergy.com
Past Chair
ROBERT SMITH
RMF Engineering, Inc.
190 West Ostend Street
Baltimore, MD 21230
(410) 576-0505
rdsmith@rmf.com
Board Members
JAMES ADAMS
Cornell University
135 Humphreys Service Building
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-6647
jra4@cornell.edu
VINCENT BADALI
Consolidated Edison
4 Irving Place – Rm. 1328
New York, NY 10003
(212) 460-3972
badaliv@coned.com
CLIFF BRADDOCK
Austin Energy
721 Barton Springs Road
Austin, TX 78704
(512) 322-6302
cliff.braddock@austinenergy.com
JOSEPH BRILLHART
Johnson Controls
41st Floor
60 E 42nd Street
New York, NY 10165
(646) 658-6785
joseph.m.brillhart@jci.com
PAUL CALDARA
University of Colorado, Boulder
UCB 319
1060 18th Street
Boulder, CO 80309
(303) 735-5107
paul.caldara@colorado.edu
JOHN CARLSON
Burns & McDonnell Engineering Co., Inc.
1700 West Loop South
Houston, TX 77027
(713) 622-0227
jcarlson@burnsmcd.com
GREGG COFFIN
University of Missouri, Columbia
417 S. Fifth Street
Columbia, MO 65211
(573) 882-3094
coffing@missouri.edu
JOHNATHAN COLEMAN
JA Coleman LLC
PO Box 425
Wilmington, VT 05363
(802) 999-6062
john@jacolemanllc.com
MIKE GOFF
Stanford University
327 Bonair Siding 2nd Flr
Stanford, CA 94305
(650) 723-3351
mikeg@bonair.stanford.edu
BOB MAFFEI
Perma-Pipe, Inc.
7720 N. Lehigh Ave.
Niles, IL 60714
(847) 966-2235
maffeib@permapipe.com
TIMOTHY MERRILL
NRG Energy Center Pittsburgh
111 S. Commons
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
(412) 231-0409
tim.merrill@nrgenergy.com
TOM PIERSON
TAS Packaged Central Plants
4300 Dixie Drive
Houston, TX 77021
(713) 877-8700
tpierson@tas.com
DANY JOSEPH SAFI
National Central Cooling Co.
“Tabreed”
Abu Dhabi Mall, West Tower
13th Floor PO Box 29478
Abu Dhabi, UAE
+971 2 6455007
dsafi@tabreed.com
AUREL SELEZEANU
Duke University
114 S. Buchanan Blvd.
Durham, NC 27708
(919) 660-4222
aurel.selezeanu@duke.edu
STEVEN TREDINNICK
Syska Hennessy Group
429 Gammon Place, Suite 200
Madison, WI 53719
(608) 826-9402
stredinnick@syska.com
PATRICIA WILSON
Affliated Engineers Inc.
401 N. Washington St., Suite 400
Rockville, MD 20850
(301) 509-6730
pwilson@aeieng.com
Ex-Officio
Robert P. Thornton
Monica L. Westerlund
Legislative Director
Mark Spurr
Legal Counsel
Joel L. Greene
Jennings, Strouss & Salmon
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