Joanne Throwe is President of Throwe Environmental, LLC and Senior Fellow at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Joanne chairs U.S. EPA’s Environmental Financial Advisory Board that is responsible for providing innovative financing recommendations to the EPA Administrator. She also serves as the Co-chair of the US EPA Stormwater Task Force for America’s Water Infrastructure Act. In 2015, she was appointed Deputy Secretary for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources where she helped lead the department from 2015 through 2019. Prior to her appointment, Joanne served as Director at the University of Maryland Environmental Finance Center, where she worked for 10 years. She also worked for several years at USDA and was a Peace Corps volunteer in the Solomon Islands. Joanne was part of the inaugural Maryland Leadership Program on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion from the University of Baltimore. Joanne received her Master’s degree from the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. She resides in both Annapolis, Maryland and Bristol, Rhode Island.

Scott Throwe is the Vice President of Throwe Environmental, LLC. Scott worked at the United States Environmental Protection Agency for 30 years with a focus on the development, implementation, and enforcement of Clean Air Act regulations. He served as a manager and senior staff in the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance and was the national lead for the toxic air pollutant program as well as several other Clean Air Act programs including New Source Review, and the asbestos program. During his career at EPA, Scott worked extensively with primary and secondary metals, minerals, paint/coatings, and agricultural industries. Scott was also a lead staff person for the implementation of the 1990 Clear Air Act Amendments. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Solomon Islands where he worked as an agriculture extension agent for remote villages teaching agro-forestry methods to improve subsistence gardens. Scott resides in Bristol, Rhode Island.

Dan Nees is a Project Partner at Throwe Environmental, and a Senior Fellow with the Center for Global Sustainability (CGS) at the University of Maryland. Prior to his tenure at CGS, Dan was the director of the University’s Environmental Finance Center.  For the past 20 years Dan has assisted communities throughout the Mid-Atlantic region in their efforts to finance environmental and sustainable development initiatives. His work currently focuses on developing innovative market and performance-based financing systems to reduce the cost of climate change and environmental mitigation, adaptation, and resilience at state, local, and regional levels. In addition to his work at the University of Maryland, Dan led environmental market and water quality programs at Forest Trends, a global NGO that seeks to develop market and economic solutions to global environmental problems, and at the World Resources Institute (WRI), an environmental think-tank. Dan earned a B.A. in Economics, a Master of Environmental Policy, and a Master of Business Administration, all from the University of Maryland College Park.

Kyle Gray is a Project Partner and Research Assistant for Throwe Environmental. Kyle oversees the company’s work in the Climate Leadership Exchange in partnership with the Southeast New England Program (SNEP) Network. He also produces and hosts “The Leadership Exchange Podcast” in tandem with the Exchange webinar series. Kyle programs and develops the Climate Project Prioritization Toolkit to assist communities in the prioritization of assets and actions within a climate resilience context. He also backstops the company’s range of work on innovative and sustainable environmental finance, climate resilience, and climate leadership development. Prior to his work with Throwe Environmental, Kyle served as Campaign Coordinator for Langevin for Congress. He was also a Stormwater Mapping Intern for Save The Bay and a Congressional Intern for US Representative James Langevin. Kyle is completing a M.A. in Marine Affairs as well as a Graduate Certificate in Community Planning from the University of Rhode Island (Spring ‘21). He has a B.A. in Political Science and a B.A. in Italian (URI ‘18) and a micro-credential in Diversity and Inclusion. Kyle’s interests are in climate policy, climate leadership, coastal resilience, green stormwater management, and environmental justice. He currently resides in Newport, RI.