SPEAKERS

President, LMS General Contractors

Jennifer Todd, MLS is President of LMS General Contractors. LMS provides full scale demolition, disaster recovery, and remediation services. As the youngest Black woman with California’s CSLB General Engineering (A) license, she leads LMS, a woman-owned demolition and environmental services contractor based in South Florida. Todd's notable achievements include being the first Black business owner featured on the cover of Construction Business Owner magazine.

Recognized as a 2020 CBO Outstanding Women in Construction finalist and a 2021 Engineering News-Record Southeast Top Young Professional, Todd has earned distinction as the sole individual in ENR's history to receive both Top 25 Newsmaker (2020) and Top 20 Under 40 (2021) accolades in the same year.

Driven by a commitment to social impact, Todd founded A Greener Tomorrow, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting skilled trades and construction careers within underserved communities. She is also the creator and producer of the YouTube docuseries "Women at Work: Breaking Barriers," which amplifies the voices of inspiring women in construction, engineering, and skilled trades.

Todd is a graduate of ASU Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. Today, she currently serves as the ASCE Industry Leaders Council Risk & Resilience Co-Chair, John Deere Customer WIC Advisory Committee, Legal Liaison for nonprofit Crew Collab.

Author, Speaker

Olivia Gambelin is a leading AI ethicist who specializes in the practical application of ethics to technological and artificial intelligence innovation. She is the founder of Ethical Intelligence, an AI ethics advisory firm. Gambelin works directly with business leaders on the operational and strategic development of Responsible AI, has advised multiple organizations in utilizing ethics as a decision-making tool and also advises on AI policy, governance and regulation. Gambelin is based between San Francisco, California and Brussels, Belgium.

Partner, Construction Technology Leader, Crowe

Rhonda Huismann is a consulting partner based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She spent more than 20 years with the tax group at Crowe before moving into her current role as technology and consulting lead for clients in the construction and real estate industries.

Rhonda has more than 24 years of experience working with general and specialty contractors, construction management firms, architectural and engineering firms, real estate developers, and material suppliers, with deep expertise in percentage of completion tax methods and deferral strategies. She is focused on bringing innovative technology to the construction and real estate industries, including the Crowe Construction Contract Optimizer, a construction tax solution that she helped develop, and Contract Manager for construction, an AI-based software designed to streamline the review, risk assessment, and collaboration related to construction contracts.

Treasurer/Chief Financial Officer, Schlouch Incorporated

Richard F. King, CPA, CCIFP is the Treasurer/Chief Financial Officer at Schlouch Incorporated in Blandon, PA. He manages all aspects of accounting, finance, IT, insurance, contracts, Human Resources and administration. Rich earned a BS in Business Administration from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. He has over thirty-five years’ experience in public accounting and industry. He has spoken on accounting, equipment, project management, technology and HR topics at CFMA local, regional and national conferences as well as Con Expo, YPO, AEMP and AICPA construction conferences, ENR webcasts, software users’ conferences and trade association meetings. He currently serves on CFMA’s Leadership Development Committee, Heavy/Highway Committees and serves as Co-chair for the AEMP-CFMA KPI Joint Project. He is a founding member and past President of his CFMA chapter and past Executive and Conference Programs Committee members. He also serves as Treasurer of the Lehigh Valley Business Coalition on Healthcare, Group Captive Executive Committee and Co-Chair of the Building Committee at his church. Rich received CFMA’s Danny B. Parrish Leadership Award in 2023; the Deborah Hahn Memorial Award in 2008; and was named CFO of the Year by Lehigh Valley Business in 2015. In addition, in 2016, Schlouch Incorporated received AEMP’s Fleet Masters Award for excellence in equipment fleet management. Rich also received CFMA’s Midatlantic Conference Trail Blazer Award and LVBCH’s Leadership in Wellness Recognition Award.

Partner, Ward & Robinson LLC

Brad brings experience from both industry and public accounting. He was recently the Chief Financial Officer of a multi-faceted middle market contractor and distributor. With that company, he led the entire accounting and finance team for all portfolio companies. In addition to these industries, Brad started his career with a Big Four firm where he managed audits of companies ranging in size and complexity.

Brad has deep experience spanning many years on treasury and banking matters, surety topics of all kinds, internal control structures, debt and financing transactions, fraud assessment and examination, lease standard implementation, acquisitions and dispositions and business risk analysis.

In his thirty-year career, Brad has worked across a wide variety of industries representing a vast number of accounting and business complexities. His experience extends beyond the United States having served various companies with global subsidiaries and working as a senior member of the global treasury team of Lendlease during his role in industry.

Manager of Surety, Marsh & McLennan Agency

Scott Rooney is a Manager of Surety with Marsh & McLennan Agency in their Richmond office, where he has worked the past six plus years helping find solutions for clients’ surety bonding needs. Formerly, Scott was a Territory Manager in the Richmond Branch of Zurich Surety for 25 years. Scott is a graduate of the University of Richmond and holds an MBA from Virginia Commonwealth University. He also holds the Associate in Fidelity and Surety Bonding certification. Scott has been actively involved in the construction industry and its organizations. Currently he is on the Legislative Committee for the AGCVA, is a member of ABC and NASBP. He has also been a long-time member of CFMA and its Central Virginia chapter, serving on its board of directors since 1996 and as Chapter President. Scott has also served on various CFMA national committees including the Conference Planning Committee. He also served the Executive Committee and was CFMA National Secretary in 2011-2012.

Counsel, White and Williams

Jeff Stewart focuses his practice on labor and employment matters. He represents business, governmental and not-for-profit employers in all phases of labor and employment law matters.

Jeff defends employment actions related to workplace discrimination and harassment, wrongful termination, wage and hour disputes, and whistleblower claims. Jeff's clients appreciate his desire to get to know the unique aspects of their businesses and his ability to then apply the law to their particular circumstances. He counsels clients about non-compete agreements, sexual harassment investigations, FLSA compliance, unemployment compensation, and drafting employment policies and handbooks.

Jeff also tries cases before the National Labor Relations Board and the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board. He handles unfair labor practice charges, unit clarification hearings, and grievance arbitration. He counsels employers in union avoidance and has helped his clients successfully defeat union representation elections. Jeff serves as lead negotiator during collective bargaining and advises his clients on all aspects of strikes, lockouts, and mass picketing. In addition to his private-sector clients, Jeff represents municipalities with respect to their labor unions.

Attorney & Founder, Wagonheim Law

Eliot is the founder of Wagonheim Law, a Maryland business and construction law firm, as well as First Rule Contract Training, an educational platform dedicated to commercial and construction owners and entrepreneurs. He has been selected as a Maryland Super Lawyer, is AV-Rated, and has been named one of SmartCEO Magazine’s Legal Elite. He serves as general counsel to contractors in virtually every trade and industry.

A frequent public speaker and published author, Eliot has spoken on construction topics for such organizations as CFMA (regional and national conferences) Construction Executive, Associated Builders and Contractors, Building Congress & Exchange, Lorman Education, and LightFair as well as presenting numerous in-house ½ day to full day workshops for some of the largest and most successful contractors in the nation.

Partner, Ward & Robinson LLC

Joey brings experience from both public accounting and industry. He was an experienced Audit Partner with several firms. He served companies in the start-up/pre-revenue phase, privately-held middle market companies as well as multi-billion dollar public companies. He also served as the National Managing Partner of a firm’s U.S. Construction industry practice. In addition to public accounting, Joey worked in the accounting and finance group of a large global general contractor.

He has served clients in the audit and technical accounting capacity for many years and has supplemented that path with deep experience in internal control structures, purchase price accounting, debt and equity transactions, accounting pronouncement implementations, and buy and sell side due diligence for acquisitions and dispositions.

In his thirty-year career, Joey has worked across a wide variety of industries representing a vast number of client complexities. His experience extends beyond the United States by serving on KPMG’s SEC Desk in Europe and auditing numerous companies with significant global subsidiaries. In addition, he worked on several global projects during his role in the industry.

Head of Construction, Siteline

Claire Wilson is the Head of Construction Solutions at Siteline. Previously, she was a project manager on at Tishman Construction in New York City, where she worked on major projects like Hudson Yards and JP Morgan's Corporate Headquarters.

She is an active member of CFMA San Francisco, is a board member of the Bay Area Subcontractors Association (BASA), and has spoken at numerous regional and national construction conferences.