The Partnership for the Delaware Estuary is a nonprofit organization working to prevent water pollution in coastal Delaware, southern New Jersey, and Southeast Pennsylvania. The following six professionals have committed to three-year
terms on its governing board of directors:

Beth Archer is a vice president
with Anne Klein Communications Group, LLC, of Mount Laurel, New Jersey. 
In this position, she provides strategic counsel and other services for clients
in the energy, healthcare, and higher education industries.

Before joining Anne Klein
Communications Group in 2011, Archer was a senior manager of communications for
Exelon Nuclear.  There she oversaw media relations, issues management,
community outreach and internal communications for four nuclear power plants in
New Jersey and Pennsylvania.  Previously, with Unisys Corporation, she
managed communications that generated leads for the company’s enterprise server
division.

Archer graduated from Drexel
University with a Bachelor of Science degree in corporate communications. 
She is a past president and past chair of the Philadelphia Public Relations
Association, has volunteered with Children’s Village and People’s Emergency
Center, both of Philadelphia, and is a Leadership Philadelphia fellow. 
When not working or volunteering, Archer resides in Tinton Falls, New Jersey.

Roy E. Denmark, Jr. is a vice president at Urban Engineers,
Inc., a full-service, engineering-consulting firm headquartered in Philadelphia. 
Denmark manages a staff of engineers and scientists who perform a wide variety
of environmental and waterfront engineering services.

Denmark retired from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’
Philadelphia District in 2011 after 37 years of federal service.  He last
served as the agency’s deputy district engineer for programs and project
management.  In this position, he oversaw the planning and execution of
civil works, international and interagency support, and military programs and
projects.  He also served in a number of positions at the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 3 office, including deputy director,
office of environmental programs.

In addition to the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary,
Denmark is currently on the board of directors of the Seaman’s Church Institute
of Philadelphia and South Jersey and the Society of American Military
Engineers’ Philadelphia Post.  He is also a member of the Mariners’
Advisory Committee for the Bay & River Delaware.

Denmark holds both a B.A. and a M.S. in biology from Rutgers
University.  He is a resident of Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, where he
lives with his wife, Judy Hykel.

Robert K. Dobbs, Jr. has served as director of the Camden
County Soil Conservation District, located in West Berlin, New Jersey,
for over 30 years.  As director, Dobbs is responsible for the management
and implementation of natural resource conservation programs.  This
includes an active regulatory program on lands being developed.  He also
serves as the chief financial officer of several large-scale management
projects.

Dobbs has previously served as president of the Association
of New Jersey Environmental Commissions, New Jersey Conservation District
Employees Association, Northeast Association of Conservation District
Employees, and the National Conservation District Employees Association. 
In addition to the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, he helps to guide the
Camden County Agricultural Development Board, Camden County Open Space
Preservation Trust Fund, and the Voorhees Environmental and Cultural Education
Foundation.

Dobbs has a B.S. in horticulture from Delaware Valley
College, and he previously studied at George Washington University.  Today
he lives in Voorhees, New Jersey.

Kimberly Long is a senior program manager with Exelon
Generation Company, LLC, located in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.  In
this role, she provides expertise and support in the areas of aquatic biology,
permitting, environmental compliance, relicensing, and stream and wetland
encroachments.

Before joining Exelon, Long was employed with FirstEnergy
Corporation as an associate scientist.  Her responsibilities included
drinking water compliance, relicensing support, and obstruction and
encroachment compliance at power plants, as well as transmission and
distribution projects.  Prior to joining FirstEnergy, Long worked for the
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection as both a watershed manager
and a water pollution biologist.

In addition to the PDE’s board of directors, Long serves as
a member of West Pottsgrove Township’s Planning Commission and Open Space
Planning Committee.

Long received a B.S. degree in biology from Millersville
University in 1999 and a M.S. degree in biology from Bucknell University in
2001.  She currently resides in Stowe, Pennsylvania.

 

Thomas J. O’Connor is the vice president of customer
operations at Aqua America, an investor-owned water utility headquartered in Bryn
Mawr, Pennsylvania.  This requires him to oversee 220 customer-service
employees who assist about 3 million consumers.  Together they perform
billing, collections, and meter operations, achieving approximately $800
million in revenue.

O’Connor has worked as a project manager, auditor, business
analyst, and controller since beginning his career 20 years ago at CBIZ Mahoney
Cohen & Company of New York.  Other past employers include Accume
Partners of Philadelphia, The Hermes Group of Princeton, and McGladrey of New
York.

A resident of Delran, New Jersey, O’Connor lives with
his wife and four children.  He holds a Master of Business Administration
degree from the New York Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Business
Administration degree from the University of Scranton.  He is also a
fellow of Leadership Philadelphia and a participant in the Pennsylvania
Business Council’s Executive Leaders Program.

Scott J. Schwarz is a senior attorney in the City of
Philadelphia Law Department.  He routinely represents the city in
court cases involving energy, the environment, sustainability and
transportation.  These often involve compliance and litigation relating to
the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and other federal laws intended to
safeguard the public.

Prior to 2009, Schwarz spent over 20 years working in the
environmental law division of Mattioni, Ltd. of Philadelphia.  He has also
pursued cases on behalf of the Washington, D.C. law firms of Heron, Burchette
& Rothwell; Wisner & Schwarz; and Zuckert, Scout &
Rasenberger.  And he previously gained government experience working for
the State of Alabama’s Office of the Attorney General and the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency.

Schwarz holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from George
Washington University and a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Bucknell
University.  Today he resides in Center City, Philadelphia.

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