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1 RESUME Pierre Breau, P. Eng. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE August 2011 current General Manager and Chief Administrative Officer, Beaver Regional Waste Management Services Commission (operating as Beaver Municipal Solutions), Ryley AB (Beaver County 1 hour east of Edmonton AB) Responsible for the leadership and senior management of the Waste Commission. The Commission (referred to as BMS) is a regional services commission responsible to the Government of Alberta. Over 97% of its revenue comes from waste management contracts outside of Beaver County. In 2014, BMS handled over 1 million metric tonnes of municipal solid waste and hydrocarbon-contaminated soils and sludges, in one of the largest landfill land holdings of its type in North America, mostly generated from the Edmonton, Alberta Capital Region. The current line of business is over $27 million of revenue annually, and an EBITDA of $17 million, with a current five year capital program of over $40 million. The Commission has over 85 employees. In 2014, BMS returned $3.3 million in dividends to its municipal shareholders, eliminated its debt and fully funded its landfill closure liability. March August 2011 Project Manager/Senior Civil Engineer, Genivar, Inc., Dartmouth NS Responsible for project management of civil/municipal/environmental projects in Atlantic Canada out of the Dartmouth NS Genivar office. April 2010 March 2011 Construction Manager, Atlantic Canada, Simplex Grinnell, a division of Tyco International of Canada, Ltd., Dartmouth NS Responsible for all fire protection sprinkler, suppression and alarm and security projects for the company throughout Atlantic Canada. This position was a senior management role with full profit and loss responsibility for the company (April) Director of Engineering and Public Works, Municipality of the District of Lunenburg, Bridgewater, Nova Scotia Responsible for all public works infrastructure for a regional municipality of 27,000 on the south shore of Nova Scotia, plus a solid

2 Town Engineer, Sackville, New Brunswick waste recycling, composting and disposal system serving multiple municipalities in southern Nova Scotia. (Lunenburg Regional Community Recycling Centre) Supervised staffing level was over 50 full-time equivalents. Direct operations expenses were in the $7 million per year range. Recent 5 year capital program was budgeted at over $46 million Responsible for all public works infrastructure for a university town of 6,000 in southern New Brunswick, including supervision of over 20 FTE staff Property Manager, The Hardman Group Limited, Moncton, New Brunswick and Halifax, Nova Scotia Managed approximately 400,000 square feet of multi-use commercial real estate in Saint John and Moncton, New Brunswick for Halifaxbased property developer and manager, The Hardman Group Limited Canadian National Railways Co. Ltd., Montreal Quebec Property Coordinator, CN Real Estate St. Lawrence Region, Montreal Managed various residential and commercial development projects on CNR lands in the Montreal area Special Projects Coordinator, CN Rail System Headquarters Administrative Services, Montreal Managed CN/tenant fit-up for 270,000 square feet of renovated office space at 1060 University Street, Montreal Assistant Industrial Engineer, CN Rail System Headquarters Intermodal Services, Montreal Provided industrial/transportation engineering analyses/reports on various rail/truck terminal problems at CN intermodal terminals in Montreal and Toronto. EDUCATION Bachelor of Engineering (Civil), McGill University, Montreal Quebec, 1984 Master of Business Administration (part-time) incomplete, McGill University,

3 CFA program - in process expect to write Level 1 exam in June 2016 Wharton Institute for Executive Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA - Executive Development Program, September 13 26, Strategic Thinking and Management for Competitive Advantage, September 15 19, 2014 Several recent short courses through the Institute for Corporate Directors: Enterprise Risk Oversight Human Resources and Compensation Committee Effectiveness Boardroom Financial Essentials Audit Committee Effectiveness NFP Program Fluent verbal/written French/English PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS, RECENT APPOINTMENTS, MEMBERSHIPS, PUBLICATIONS/TALKS Registered Professional Engineer, Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta Director, Recycling Council of Alberta, October current Director, Alberta Rural Organic Waste-to-Resources Network (AROWEN), Member, 2009 Project Steering Committee, Alternative Measures to Engineering Licensure, Engineers Canada, Ottawa Director, , Advisory Board On-site Systems Research, Centre for Water Resource Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax Nova Scotia - 3 -

4 Member, , Working Group Infrastructure Investment Planning and Decision-making, Infraguide Canadian Guide to Sustainable Municipal Infrastructure, Ottawa Councillor, , Governing Council, Association of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia (now Engineers Nova Scotia) CURRENT MEMBERSHIPS IN: APEGA MacKay CEO Forum Institute for Corporate Directors CFA Institute American Society of Civil Engineers Solid Waste Ass n of North America PUBLICATIONS Reuse of Asphalt Shingles as Surface Material for Recreation Trails, 62 nd Conference, Halifax, 2009 (joint author) Canadian Geotechnical Crack Sealing of Municipal Pavements Best Practices Guide, Infraguide, Federation of Canadian Municipalities, Ottawa, 2004 (joint author) Infrastructure Investment and Decision-Making Protocol Best Practices Guide Infraguide, Federation of Canadian Municipalities, Ottawa, 2004 (joint author) Optimum Installed Capacity for A Hydroelectric Site on the Peribonca River, McGill University, Montreal 1983 Storm Water Sewershed Analysis, Shediac Road, Moncton N.B., McGill University, Montreal, 1983 (this paper won the CSCE 1984 Student Environmental Paper Prize) RECENT INVITED TALKS 3 rd Municipal Infrastructure Conference, Saskatchewan Economic Development Association, Nipawin SK, April 2015 Beaver Municipal Solutions A Model for Success Remediation Technologies Symposium, Environmental Services Association of Alberta, Banff, AB, October 2014 Coppice Willow System Using Land-Applied Biosolids Generated by Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants Recent Projects 7 th Canadian Biosolids and Residuals Management Conference, Vancouver, BC, June 2014 Land Application of City of Edmonton Biosolids Using Beaver Municipal Solutions Coppice Willow System Recycling Council of Alberta Annual Conference, Banff AB, October 2013 Down the Trail Towards Waste Reduction Opportunities for Landfills in a World of Recycling, Or How Landfills are Growing Up Coastal Communities Network, Nova Scotia Webinar on Municipal Innovations in Environmental Stewardship, Bridgewater NS, June 2006 Overview of Cookville Membrane Bioreactor Wastewater Treatment Plant and Implementation of the LaHave River Watershed Protection Strategy - 4 -

5 Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations Conference on Innovative On-site Sewage Disposal Solutions, Truro NS, May 2005 Overview of Shore Drive Wastewater Treatment System, Conquerall Bank, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia - 5 -