Charlie Vander Aarde is Board Chair and a Senior Account Supervisor at Tunheim where he works in public affairs, helping clients meet their public policy and communications goals. He has 16 years of Minnesota legislative experience where he worked as a lobbyist representing metropolitan region cities. Charlie’s policy and budget experience include housing and land use, economic development, redevelopment, and metropolitan government. He previously served as legislative staff in both the Minnesota House and Senate. His prior work also includes directing citizen diplomacy efforts with the U.S. State Department in Seattle. Charlie grew up in Minnesota and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He serves as chair on the board of Minnesota Brownfields, chairs the Neighborhood STAR board for the City of Saint Paul, and is on the board of his local youth hockey association. He coaches baseball and hockey and resides in Saint Paul with his family.
Mike Wardwell is Chair of the ReScape Committee, and a Development Associate and Property Manager with Hyde Development, a developer that specializes in brownfields. At Hyde, Mike is responsible for the redevelopment and management of industrial properties, which includes the management of entitlement, financing, construction, and post-construction management. Mike also serves as an Urban Land Institute Young Leaders Grow Committee Member, and has served as a member of the Fridley Energy Action Planning Team and NAIOP Developing Leader Social Committee. During the course of his career thus far, Mike has gained experience with the various stages of the redevelopment process in addition to real estate, legal and environmental knowledge.
Richard Manser leverages his 40 years of experience as a hydrogeologist and environmental consultant to facilitate the assessment, cleanup, and redevelopment of contaminated and underutilized properties. In addition to serving on the Minnesota Brownfields Board of Directors, he chairs the Membership Committee and actively participates on the ReScape/Programming Committee. Richard is owner and Senior Consultant at milepost12 LLC. He has held leadership positions at The Opus Group in addition to local and national environmental consulting firms such as Barr Engineering, Arcadis, MACTEC, and Geomatrix.
Adam Zobel is a Principal within the Real Estate and Remediation Group at Stantec. Adam is also a Remediation Practice Leader at Stantec for the Great Lakes Region. He has experience in environmental consulting assisting clients with transaction-based environmental due diligence, brownfield redevelopment, brownfield cleanup, assessment, and redevelopment grants, site investigation, and remediation projects since 2002. Adam has served on the Minnesota Brownfields Membership committee since 2019.