GBB names executive vice president

Gershman, Brickner & Bratton Inc. (GBB) has promoted Chris Lund 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,” GBB President Steve Simmons says. “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.”

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Lund has more than 30 years of environmental engineering and consulting experience with a unique perspective from the regulated and regulatory sides, allowing him to help clients navigate through materials management challenges arising from solid waste management landscape structural transformations, the emergence of extended producer responsibility (EPR), material processing advances and the evolution of citizens’ environmental priorities. As a GBB officer, he provides senior project management and oversight, strategic guidance, quality control to enhance deliverables and subject matter expertise across the wide range of services offered by the Vienna, Virginia-based consulting firm.

“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,” Lund says. “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.”

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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 led multiple strategic solid waste management planning initiatives for clients in California, Utah, Oklahoma, Texas, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland, among others. He also is a receiver representative for GBB, which was appointed 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, Lund 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.

Lund holds a Bachelor of Science degree in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. Based in southern Virginia, he can be reached at clund@gbbinc.com or 703-663-2435.