Eric Antmann (Kaseya)
Eric Antmann is a solutions specialist at Kaseya, based at the company’s Brickell headquarters, where he works in the business continuity and disaster recovery group serving midmarket enterprises. Prior to joining Kaseya, he was a principal engineer at Hazen and Sawyer, where he opened the firm’s Fort Lauderdale office in 2018 and served as chair of the Florida Water Environment Association’s Southeast Chapter.
In addition to his professional roles, Antmann is a campaign chair for the Jewish Federation of Broward County’s Young Leadership Division and a recipient of its 2020 Joan and Douglas Gross Community Service Award. During his time at the University of Miami, he served as chair of the Engineering Advisory Board and completed two terms on the Student Senate. He was recognized with the College of Engineering Dean’s Service Award in 2014, as well as the Florida Section American Water Works Association Roy Likins Scholarship and the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Miami-Dade Branch Scholarship.
Deep Bhattacharya (Vice President, Plastics and Technology Operations Eastman Chemical Company)
Deep Bhattacharya, Ph.D., is vice president of plastics and technology at Eastman, where he has served for 22 years in various technology and marketing leadership roles. He holds degrees in chemistry and chemical engineering from India and earned his Ph.D. in polymer science from the State University of New York, as well as an Executive Scholars certification in general management from Northwestern University.
Bhattacharya holds five U.S. patents and has published in multiple peer-reviewed journals. He serves on the editorial review board for the Journal of Coatings Technology and Research, the scientific and technical committee of the American Coatings Association, and the Tess Award Committee of the American Chemical Society’s Division of Polymer Science and Engineering.
Gordon Brown (PSM, Jupiter)
Gordon Brown, Ph.D., is the environmental compliance lead at PSM in Jupiter, Florida, where he manages Title V air permitting and compliance, storage tanks, chemical reporting, emergency response compliance and serves on the sustainability team. He also has extensive experience with NPDES, industrial wastewater and RCRA permitting and compliance. Prior to joining Pratt & Whitney, Brown worked in the oil and gas industry for four years in Oklahoma and Texas. Before that, he spent three years with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in environmental remediation.
Brown grew up in western New York and earned his bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and earth sciences from SUNY Brockport, where he was the departmental scholar in earth sciences and received the Analytical Chemistry Award. He then focused his studies and research on hydrogeology and environmental chemistry in the Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences at the University of Florida, earning both his master’s and doctoral degrees.
He currently serves as a board member of the Florida Section of the American Water Resources Association and as education committee chair. He is also an at-large director on the board of the Southeast Section of the Air & Waste Management Association of Florida. He enjoys working with private and public-sector administrators, researchers, consultants, attorneys and planners and is an avid outdoorsman who enjoys boating, snorkeling, hiking, camping, mountain biking and snow skiing.
Kevin Brown (Associate VP, HNTB)
Kevin Brown is an associate vice president at HNTB Corp. with more than 22 years of experience in civil and transportation engineering. He also serves as operations manager for HNTB’s South Florida offices and as a program director. Throughout his career, he has been responsible for delivering and managing a wide range of infrastructure projects and initiatives, including transportation facilities, environmental mitigation and restoration, technology solutions and land development.
Brown is a graduate of the University of Miami, where he earned bachelor’s degrees in civil engineering and environmental engineering. He is a registered professional engineer in the state of Florida and holds a Project Management Professional certification from the Project Management Institute. He is also a graduate of the Florida Engineering Leadership Institute and the Miami Chamber of Commerce Leadership Miami Program.
Roy Coley (Director, WASD)
Roy Coley is director of the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department, one of the nation’s largest water and sewer utilities, serving more than 2.7 million residents. He is a water and wastewater operations and maintenance professional with more than 25 years of experience and holds water and wastewater treatment operator licenses in both Alabama and Florida, as well as six treatment and management certifications from California State University’s College of Engineering.
Coley holds a Bachelor of Arts in organizational leadership from St. Thomas University, where he graduated summa cum laude, and a Master of Business Administration from Saint Leo University. He has served as a transformational leader at Miami-Dade County, the City of Miami Beach and the Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority for the City of Key West, where he worked as director of public works and director of operations, respectively.
He is passionate about water resources and their preservation, advancing innovative approaches to stormwater management and the renewal and replacement of aging infrastructure, as well as leading the development and implementation of employee incentive programs. He believes public service is the backbone of any community and promotes a “working for you” approach across the Water and Sewer Department when serving residents and businesses throughout Miami-Dade County.
David Hernandez (Hazen & Sawyer)
David Hernandez, P.E., ENV SP, is a University of Miami alum, earning a bachelor’s degree in 2012 and a master’s degree in 2013. He is a senior principal engineer at Hazen and Sawyer, specializing in sustainability and wastewater treatment. Hernandez has experience in wastewater planning, design and construction and serves on the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure’s Training and Credentialing Committee. He also has experience using ISI’s Envision framework for holistic alternative evaluations and project verification in sustainable design and construction.
Rashid Istambouli (Interim Director, DERM)
Prithwiraj Maitra (Vice President, Global Skincare R&D)
Prithwiraj Maitra, Ph.D., is vice president of global skincare R&D at Allergan Aesthetics, where he is responsible for strategy and development of the global innovation pipeline for the SkinMedica and DiamondGlow brands. He joined Allergan Aesthetics in 2019 and has been instrumental in driving new product development and pipeline innovation, including several recent launches such as Hydracollagen HA5, Even & Correct, Firm & Tone, Neck Correct and TNS A+. Maitra is passionate about shaping the future of evidence-based skincare by researching the critical regenerative and protective processes in skin.
Prior to AbbVie, Maitra held various R&D leadership roles at Johnson & Johnson for more than 10 years, leading upstream innovation for global beauty brands such as Aveeno and Neutrogena. Before that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Colgate-Palmolive, where he worked on oral care products. Maitra received his Ph.D. in polymer chemistry from Temple University and holds executive leadership certifications in strategy and innovation from Wharton (2014), MIT Sloan School of Management (2016) and Stanford Graduate School of Business (2023). He is the author of several peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and is a named inventor on more than 80 patents and pending applications.
Laura Vogel (Chen-Moore)
Laura Vogel, Ph.D., P.E., is a water resources engineer with experience in surface water and groundwater modeling, as well as the design, permitting and construction of a variety of civil and environmental engineering projects, including stormwater, wastewater, potable water and remediation projects. She also has experience assessing the impacts of sea level rise on communities, combining hydraulic and hydrologic modeling with risk assessment to develop capital improvement needs. Vogel holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering and a master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Miami, as well as a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from Western University.
Walter Wilcox (SFWMD)
Walter Wilcox, P.E., is a graduate of the University of Miami, where he earned bachelor’s degrees in environmental engineering and civil engineering and a master’s degree in civil engineering with an environmental engineering emphasis. He is director of the modeling section of the Hydrology and Hydraulics Bureau at the South Florida Water Management District, where he oversees the development and application of hydrologic, hydraulic, hydrodynamic and water quality computer models for planning Everglades restoration and coastal resilience infrastructure and operations in South Florida.
Wilcox and his team have helped identify and demonstrate the benefits of more than $10 billion in constructed or authorized capital infrastructure improvement projects and have been innovators on several technical fronts, including stochastic optimization and hydraulic field experimentation.
