ALN Roundtable: Sustainability and Asset Management

Posted on December 13, 2021December 17, 2021 by Nick Knoke

ALN CEO Jim Dieter leads a discussion between experts on Sustainability and Asset Management to spark thinking, learning, and advancing understanding on how asset management can be used to help an organization sustain its mission success and help it contribute to the sustainable use of public assets such as clean water and clean air. https://youtu.be/c0m4NRhaetw https://youtu.be/gMStReEUwyQ Jennifer Zach, CMO, Uberlytics, LLC;Mary Adams, President, SmarterCompanies;Prof. Dr. ...

Jesse Rothkopf – ALN Th@4

Posted on September 24, 2021September 24, 2021 by Nick Knoke

Jesse Rothkopf, was with IBM for 10 years prior to his current position as Managing Principal at LCE. At IBM, Mr. Rothkopf headed the North American Public Sector sales team and was heavily involved in a solutions-oriented approach to federal, state, and local governments. At LCE, Mr. Rothkopf leads transportation and non-manufacturing sectors with an asset-intensive approach that leverages advanced technology solutions and ISO 55000 to provide dramatic benefits to owner organizations. He h...

Laverne Deckert – ALN Th@4

Posted on September 16, 2021September 16, 2021 by Nick Knoke

Laverne Deckert, Lead Chameleon at her business imaChameleon, is a driving force in the Facilities Management world, with extensive international experience in standards development and professional certification. Working for IFMA (International Facilities Management Association) and as a consultant, she has led and supported numerous committees, work groups, and advisory groups of ISO TC 267 Facilities Management, including the development of the ISO 41001, the Management System Standard f...

Mark West – ALN Th@4

Posted on September 13, 2021September 13, 2021 by Nick Knoke

Mark West, ABS Group Senior Director of Reliability Services, first served 8 years in the U.S Navy involved in nuclear power plants and nuclear power training. Since then, he has served in a several key reliability and maintenance positions developing processes and controls for dramatically improving productivity and profitability. At ABS Group, he is the key author of two White Papers co-published with the Asset Leadership Network. Mr. West will be sharing his lessons learned from an exten...

Mary Adams – ALN Th@4

Posted on September 6, 2021September 8, 2021 by Nick Knoke

Mary Adams founded Smarter Companies to focus on intangible capital management in a way to address what she calls the two mega-trends impacting all organizations – 1) Rise of knowledge economy and 2) the urgency of social and environmental sustainability. Ms. Adams has promoted multi-capital models to bring long-term thinking to the private company market. Ms. Adams is the co-author of “Intangible Capital: Putting Knowledge to Work in the 21st Century Organization” and has been publish...

Mike Aimone – ALN Th@4

Posted on August 27, 2021September 2, 2021 by Nick Knoke

Mike Aimone immediately saw the value of ISO 55000 to the nation and began supporting the Asset Leadership Network with no hesitation. It is an honor that such a distinguished person decided to be involved with the ALN. Mike has served the U.S. Department of Defense as an officer, and as an executive at the highest levels. He is still actively involved in helping the U.S. by leading the creation of a National Academy of Sciences Federal Facility Council report that is due out soon. h...

Kris Goly – ALN Th@4

Posted on August 20, 2021September 2, 2021 by Nick Knoke

Kris Goly has been involved in asset management for a few decades. He was actively involved in the creation of ISO 55000 and now has the influential role of Chair of the US Technical Advisory Group contributing to rewriting the series of standards. In 2014, Mr. Goly was quoted as saying, "...those that use ISO 9000 and other management standards and good practices will find it relatively easy to implement and become compliant with ISO 55000. It could take them just a few months, maybe ...

Colonel (ret.) Ronald Bordenaro – ALN Th@4

Posted on August 14, 2021August 19, 2021 by Nick Knoke

https://youtu.be/4dA-RWFi4Zg https://youtu.be/f1eawOBBEt4 Colonel (ret.) Ronald Bordenaro's extensive career includes more than 30 years of active and reserve service in the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Because of his reserve service, Col. Bordenaro also had a full career as an educator and 8 years as the Village of South Holland Building Code Enforcer. With Masters’ Degrees in both Education and Warfare, he has been a life-long advocate ...

Jack Kelly – ALN Th@4

Posted on August 6, 2021August 6, 2021 by Nick Knoke

https://youtu.be/hREP8asnQVM https://youtu.be/0y4r_qs5i6s Jack Kelly, ALN Board of Directors Member and ALN Senior Fellow has been a great value to the ALN – and to any organization he is involved with. It is an honor to have Mr. Kelly’s insights and ability to connect dots between the many issues he is actively involved with after leaving the OMB after 36 years of continuous service. It is an even greater honor that Mr. Kelly credits the ALN with getting him invol...

Shelly Culbertson – ALN Th@4

Posted on August 3, 2021August 19, 2021 by Nick Knoke

https://youtu.be/5wSfOe31NaI https://youtu.be/VU2a09mVuSU Shelly Culbertson is a Senior Policy Researcher for the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation, where her focus is on disaster recovery, post-conflict stabilization, innovation policy and more. She has published research on preparing for disaster recovery, which provides insight on how to plan for asset management in non-disaster times. Ms. Culbertson is the author of “The Fires of Spring: A Post-Arab Sprin...