Ms. Frederick is the CFO of Battery Park City Authority, a multi-billion dollar NY State Authority focused commercial and residential real estate entity spanning the southwestern tip of Manhattan. She manages all financial operations, including its investment portfolio and its tax-exempt and taxable municipal bonds. She leads the Board Audit and Investment Committees.

She previously served in senior financing roles at Citigroup, GE Capital, Fieldstone Private Capital Group, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and the Chase Manhattan Bank. Her expertise includes fixed income derivatives, mergers and acquisitions, commercial lending and global infrastructure project finance.  

She holds an MBA and BA from the University of Michigan, attended Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Jouy en Josas, France and previously served as a FINRA Registered Securities Representative and held Series 7 and 63 licenses.

She resides in the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut where she was elected to serve on the town council (RTM), headed the Finance Committee and currently serves as an appointee to the Town of Greenwich Retirement Board. She also serves on the Board of Governors of the Municipal Forum of New York.

Kenneth Rice’s interest in finance, climate change, and energy policy led him to move from Norway to Seattle to obtain his Master’s in Public Administration at the University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Policy & Governance. Prior to departing Norway, he worked in the energy sector where he gained a broad understanding of the interconnectedness of energy, social, and climate policy. He expanded upon these interests while at the University of Washington by researching climate initiatives in Washington State, the Energy Transition in Germany, and the mechanisms that support the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund. In 2019 and 2020, he worked for Seattle City Light, serving on its utility assistance programs and piloting rates that could better serve the community. In his current role as the capital finance debt coordinator at King County Wastewater Treatment Division, two of his main priorities are to identify cost-savings opportunities and coordinate efforts to provide low-cost financing for a growing capital program.

David Dodd is an international leader in sustainable economic development, disaster recovery, public private partnerships and climate adaptation. In 2017, David founded the International Sustainable Resilience Center, or ISRC, a Specialist Center of Excellence in New Orleans Louisiana, US, focused on disaster resilience and recovery utilizing public private partnerships. He transitioned from economic development to disaster recovery beginning Hurricane Katrina, which hit the US Gulf Coast in 2005. David was asked to lead the Gulf Coast Reinvestment Forum, a national recovery summit, and subsequently co-authored a report with the International Economic Development Council, used in developing the federal Gulf Opportunity Act.

From there, he led efforts in Mexico, Japan, and consulted with Australia and the Philippines, all on actions to enable robust economic recovery and resilience.  In his role as Founding President and CEO of the International Sustainable Resilience Center, a not for profit corporation (NGO), David co-founded the World Association of Public Private Partnership Units and Professionals (WAPPP) dedicated to the principles of Next-Generation PPPs, based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, that promote transparency, equity/inclusion, stakeholder engagement, are fit for purpose, and are sustainable/resilient.

In addition to his standing in WAPPP, he is in leadership positions in the, the American Society of Adaptation Professionals (finance group leadership committee and policy and practice leadership committee), the International Economic Development Council (Former Board Member and member of the International Advisory Committee). David is a Certified Economic Developer, Fellow Member, and Honorary Life Member.

David was also Dean of the Economic Development Institute and Founding Chairman of the Resilience Development Institute, both at the    University of Oklahoma. David is a graduate of Louisiana Tech University and the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University. 

Marcus Martin is the Managing Director and Head of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), for Commercial Products, at U.S. Bank, the nation’s fifth-largest commercial bank. His responsibilities include expanding the bank’s Sustainable Capital Markets activities, providing issuer and investor clients with a full range of options to address their ESG needs – including newly added sustainable Blockchain advisory – and strengthening the bank’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts within the Commercial Products business.

Before joining U.S. Bank, Marcus was the CEO and founder of Global Oak Capital Markets, a global investment bank focused on assisting corporate, institutional and family office clients. Prior to that, he held a number of senior leadership and management positions across trading and banking with Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch in London and Moscow.

Marcus has 20 years of industry experience spanning institutional and entrepreneurial settings. He began his career at UBS Investment Bank in New York.

Randy Layman is a Director and lead analyst within S&P Global Ratings’ Public Finance practice, primarily focusing on local government and utility system credit quality. Mr. Layman is S&P’s specialist in land-secured financing and has provided credit ratings on nearly 1,000 public debt transactions. Mr. Layman is a member of S&P’s ESG taskforce and leads the public finance group’s environmental data and analytic efforts.
 
Prior to joining S&P in 2015, Mr. Layman held positions with FHN Financial Capital Markets, FactSet Research Systems, and the federal government. Randy holds a BA in Economics and a MPA from Indiana University. Randy is a member of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts and the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Kristin has extensive experience in environmental, health, and safety matters. She advises companies on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), corporate sustainability, and climate change issues. She provides guidance on the development and implementation of ESG policies, on transactions involving significant ESG issues, and in connection with sustainability auditing, reporting, and disclosures. Kristin has worked with clients involved in the development, purchase, sale, and financing of a variety of renewable energy projects, including wind, solar, and hydroelectric facilities.

In addition, Kristin is well-versed in assessing and negotiating environmental liabilities and represents lenders, bidders, developers, targets, and investors with the environmental aspects of a wide variety of transactions, including finance, real estate development, divestitures, mergers, and acquisitions. She advises clients in connection with environmental compliance, due diligence, permitting, site remediation, and insurance matters and regularly represents clients in private disputes and in investigations and proceedings before state and federal agencies.

Kristin also counsels clients across a variety of sectors in connection with occupational safety and health inspections, employee complaints, and citations. She has guided clients through the COVID crisis, in OSHA mediation proceedings, and in contested cases before federal review boards.

Kristin serves as Chapman's Environmental Sustainability Partner, managing the firm's environmental and sustainability initiatives.