EPOC 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting - Keynote address by David Lehman, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD)

Thursday, October 15, 2020, 4 PM
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The Environmental Professionals Organization of Connecticut (EPOC) cordially invites you to attend our virtual annual dinner meeting featuring a keynote address from David Lehman, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD). Our event will begin with a brief business meeting which will include the latest news from EPOC.

Registration:

This meeting is open to EPOC members only at no fee. Registration is required to receive the meeting link. If you wish to attend and are not a member of EPOC, please consider joining at this time. Your membership benefits will be extended through the end of 2021.

Keynote Address from David Lehman:

David Lehman serves as the Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD), the state agency that oversees a wide range of programs promoting business growth, brownfield redevelopment, the arts, historic preservation and tourism.

David also serves as the Governor’s Senior Economic Advisor. He is hard at work at creating an innovative public-private partnership between DECD and AdvanceCT (formerly CERC) that will provide a new economic development delivery model for our state.

David’s business development priorities include helping build our urban centers into engines of growth, furthering the state’s innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems, and strengthening the state’s workforce pipelines.

Prior to joining DECD, David worked in the financial services industry. Most recently he was Global Head of Real Estate Finance for the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs, where he worked for 15 years.

Commissioner Lehman has been involved with proposed Transfer Act revisions and promoting legislation to transition to a release-based cleanup program in CT.