Bill is a water and wastewater engineer with a wide range of skills and disciplines and presently working as a project manager. He has expertise in construction management, multi-disciplinary task coordination, contract administration, claims negotiation and resident engineering. His experience includes both conventional delivery and design-build projects. Bill’s specialties are water and wastewater treatment facilities, multi-discipline/high complexity construction and commissioning services. 

Ben is a licensed professional engineer and County Engineer for the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry. Ben is responsible for the overall management of the Roads Department, includes design, rehabilitation and maintenance of approximately 1000 kilometres roads and 200 bridges. After obtaining his degree from McGill University in 2003, Ben started his career as municipal engineer at a local consulting firm. Ben left consulting in 2009 to work for SDG. 

Bart joined the RMCAO in 1999 and has progressed from technical engineer to engineering manager, to his current role as president of Concrete Ontario. Prior to joining Concrete Ontario, Bart was a division manager of a concrete restoration company in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. 

Ashley is focused on legal matters that relate to the municipal sector. She was called to the Ontario Bar in 2017 after graduating from Osgoode Hall Law School.  Her career has always been practicing law in the municipal context, working both for a lower tier and now upper tier municipality. Ashley practices contract law with a focus on procurement, as well as general municipal law including advocacy before administrative tribunals.  

Arti is a senior legal counsel with the Region of Peel. Her area of practice is planning and development, and environmental law. Before joining Peel, Arti worked at the Region of Durham. She has practiced at regional municipalities for almost 10 years and prior to that, she worked in the private sector doing land development.  

Arshad brings more than 35 years of experience in design, operation and planning of transportation infrastructure. He holds a Master degree (M.Sc.) in Transportation engineering, Professional Engineering License (P.Eng.), Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE), and Road Safety Professional (RSP) designations. He’s the responsible for roundabout design in the Ministry. He’s been working for MTO for last 18 years in Traffic operations and Highway design. 

Antonio has over 20 years of professional experience as an insider and as a consultant in various industries, including Telecommunications, Engineering and Construction, Manufacturing (Cement, Heavy Industries, Electronics) and Power Generation and Distribution Plants in Canada, U.S., U.K and Japanese Companies. He has conceptualized, designed, and facilitated more than 100 health and safety training programs across major industries. He’s a trained healthy and safety professional in Canada, U.S., Philippines and Japan.

Andrei is a licensed Professional Engineer and has been a construction professional for the past 14 years. He is currently the Manager of Technical Services for Dufferin Aggregates and Dufferin Concrete. Andrei is a proud member of the Concrete Ontario Technical Committee and has also supported the Ontario Sand, Stone and Gravel Association (OSSGA) on various forums, as well as worked closely with TARBA and the MTO in advancing sound concrete and aggregate practices in the industry.

Alex has an Hon. B.A. from the University of Toronto. an M.A. from Trent University, and graduated law school from Queen’s University. He’s currently an articling student at the Region of Durham and will become a lawyer in June 2021. At the Region, he provides research and support to legal counsel and provincial prosecutors across all areas of municipal legal practice, including planning and development, human resources, litigation and real estate.