Panel 3: Infrastructure and Environment

Editor , NJBIZ

Moderator, Panel 3: Infrastructure and Environment

Jeffrey Kanige has been a professional writer and editor for more than 35 years, mostly as a financial journalist. Jeff is a former editor in chief of TheStreet.com and The Deal, where he led a staff of staff of about 100 journalists based around the country and in Europe. He began his journalism career as a stringer for the Courier-News, a daily newspaper in central New Jersey. As a writer for New Jersey Reporter, a public policy journal based in Princeton, Jeff won several awards for his coverage of state politics and government and served as a political commentator and advisor for television stations in New Jersey and Philadelphia.

President, CEO & Chairman of the Board , T&M Associates

Gary Dahms has led T&M Associates since 2012. He has spearheaded the firm’s growth from a municipal engineering firm to a successful, full-service, consulting, engineering, environmental, technical services and construction management firm comprised of 350 professionals in eight states.

Vice President, Construction & Design Services , FirstEnergy

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Mark Mroczynski began his career at FirstEnergy in 2004 as a supervisor of Technical Services. He was named director of operations support in 2008, and became executive director, Transmission Programs in 2013. He was promoted to his current position in 2018. Mroczynski received a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from The University of Akron, and an MBA from Kent State University. He is a professional engineer in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and is a founding director of the Association of Iron & Steel Technology.

Director of State Government Affairs , Verizon

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Braxton Plummer is the lead lobbyist for Verizon. A longtime player in Democratic circles, Plummer has worked for Gov. Phil Murphy, Cory Booker, when he was mayor of Newark, and numerous organizations.

Member of the Firm , Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC

Panel 3: Infrastructure and Environment

Dennis Toft has been practicing environmental law in New Jersey for almost 40 years. He assists clients in gaining approvals for complicated projects involving site remediation, landfill closure, and wetlands, flood hazard and coastal permitting among other issues. He also has been involved in the development of New Jersey environmental legislation working with various trade organizations, most recently on the amendments to the Site Remediation Reform Act. Toft is a member of the Executive Board of the NJ Chamber of Commerce and a Trustee of the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and from the Columbia University School of Law and is the father of five grown children.