Dane Broussard is President and CEO at CORE Linepipe, where he’s worked for over four years in progressive executive roles starting as executive director and including COO.

B.G. has more than 35 years of experience developing and managing Oil & Gas services, water infrastructure, and related technology solutions. Immediately prior joining Composite Piping Technologies, he served as the Chief Development Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Streamline Innovations®, where he led commercialization of the Valkyrie®, a biodegradable chemical H2S treating system for Oil & Gas, renewable energy, and carbon capture. B.G. led development of the first full-scale commercial saltwater pipeline and disposal system as a consultant then as VP and General Manager for Heckmann Water Resources/Nuverra (now Select). Additionally, he co-founded and led as President of Water Midstream Partners, the Oil & Gas industry’s first dedicated commercial saltwater pipeline and disposal system serving the Permian Basin and was COO with Solaris Water Midstream following their acquisition of Water Midstream. Throughout his career, B.G. has worked on more than 100 projects with overall construction values exceeding $4 billion. He received his B.B.A in Marketing with an emphasis in Transportation/Logistics from the New Mexico State University and holds several patents and patents pending related to gas treating technology.

Markus Drouven is a Senior Engineer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh. At NETL, he leads a $65 million R&D portfolio focused on integrated energy systems and cross-cutting initiatives that connect technology, infrastructure, and strategic decision-making across industry and government. Before joining DOE, Markus worked in the private sector, where he built an optimization engineering team at EQT. He holds engineering degrees from RWTH Aachen University in Germany and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon.

Mr. Edling is a PE with 30 years of project experience. Early in his career, he was a Civil Engineer Corps Officer for the US Navy at Naval Air Station Barbers Point and Marine Corps Base Hawaii. After obtaining his master’s degree, Mr. Edling was assigned as an assistant professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point for three years where he taught environmental engineering to cadets. After 9 years of military service, Mr. Edling started his “China years” focusing on designing and building wastewater treatment plants for steel mills, automotive factories, and refineries. During that time, Mr. Edling learned of the need to implement “Zero Liquid Discharge” systems. In 2010, Mr. Edling joined Vacom Systems and has been designing MVR evaporator and crystallizer systems ever since. Vacom Systems, is now a part of Xylem and Mr. Edling leads the team in developing ZLD systems for various industrial applications.

Michael Grossman is the North America Business Development Manager at Aquafortus, Inc., where he leads commercial development for the ABX™ platform, focused on produced water and other complex industrial wastewaters across the oil and gas, mining, and other industrial sectors. He works with operators to deploy solutions that reduce produced water volumes and recover clean water from unconventional sources.

Michael brings more than 15 years of experience in advanced water treatment, with particular depth in evaporation and membrane technologies. He is lead inventor on two patents. Before joining Aquafortus, he held business development and applications engineering leadership roles at several water treatment technology companies, where he led demonstration projects, developed commercial strategies, and integrated treatment systems for a range of industrial applications.

He is active in produced water industry associations, helping advance collaboration across industry, academia, and regulators, and is a frequent speaker and moderator at leading water conferences. Michael holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

David Hackworth joined Gas Field Services as the Chief Operating Officer in 2025. He brings a diverse set of experiences in the Oil and Gas space as well as in industry. He served as a Vice President at CNX Resources (formerly CONSOL Energy) including time in Internal Audit, Diversified Business, FP&A, Joint Ventures and Corporate Strategy.

David also served as a CFO at a manufacturing company and got his start working in finance and as an industrial engineer, supply chain manager and production planner. David is a native of Pittsburgh, PA where he resides with his wife and three children. He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh (BA Economics, MS Industrial Engineering) and The College of William and Mary (MBA).

Ryan Hassler specializes in oilfield services research and market intelligence. Ryan joined the company in January of 2019 with a background in the Canadian oil and gas industry, holding various roles in operations and engineering for heavy oil and oil sands mining producers. He is currently the lead analyst covering the US L48 water management and proppant markets, focusing on produced water management, seismicity, and proppant supply, demand, and pricing. Ryan currently sits in Denver, Colorado and holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Chemical Engineering from The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Ethan Johnson is an associate in the firm’s Washington D.C. office and a member of the Environmental Group. His practice involves counseling clients on federal and state environmental regulatory compliance matters, representing clients involved in complex Superfund and other environmental remediations, and advising on environmental aspects of corporate transactions.

Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Johnson practiced at a law firm in Maine where he gained substantial environmental regulatory and litigation experience, including litigating one of the largest Superfund cleanups in the country. In addition, he advised businesses and municipalities on PFAS regulations, assisted a solar development company with construction law, and advised clients on land use, permitting, and environmental compliance.

With Texas roots of almost 200 years, Charles is a 6th Generation Texan, of which, five generations have called South Texas home. His family has been ranching in Bee County since the 1880’s. He and his wife Kris raise registered quarter horses and run a small herd of commercial Brangus cows in Central and South Texas. Charles studied Range and Wildlife Management at Texas Tech University where, as a student of Drs. Fred Bryant and Russ Pettit, he began a lifetime passion for all things wild and wonderful with an eye toward healthy soils and ecosystems through native plants. He has a special place in his heart for bobwhite quail and “yard birds.” Charles has an entrepreneurial spirit that has propelled him into business ventures in retail, direct sales, residential and commercial construction, real estate, ranching and, most recently, industrial by-product water and related technologies. Upon his father’s retirement from a well-known Texas farm and ranch organization, the two of them began a consulting group dedicated to agriculture and landowner issues, working to make sure that for-profit companies better understood and respected the unique perspective of rural Texans. As an outgrowth of that work, Charles developed a strong working relationship in the non-profit sector as well. Charles currently serves as Advocacy Director for South Texans’ Property Rights Association. While based in South Texas, STPRA’s work positively impacts the lives of Texans across the whole state. Along with nine other key policy areas, his role with STPRA has kept him attuned to water and water policy as it relates to private property and landowner rights. With a desire to help find “new” water for a drying Texas, in early 2025 Charles decided that a role with Fit For Purpose 2100 would complement his ongoing work on behalf of Texas landowners. F4P is a startup focused on ensuring the safety and efficacy of beneficial reuse of industrial by-product water. Preferring policy over politics, you will find him in Austin working at the Texas Capitol during Texas’ every other year legislative sessions. In between, he spends much of his time on grassroots education and outreach while working to build sustainable agriculture focused businesses with a view toward land stewardship.

Steven L. McCrossin is an oil and gas industry veteran with more than 42 years of experience spanning geophysics, seismic acquisition, exploration, drilling, well completion, permitting, surveying, and facility construction. He currently serves as Owner and President of Precision Geophysical, Inc., and provides operational leadership to LOUD Minerals, Mountaineer Well Services, and Richland Oil. His career has included virtually every stage of the oil and gas development lifecycle, from initial leasing and exploration through drilling, completion, and facility construction. Mr. McCrossin has extensive expertise in 2D and 3D seismic acquisition and interpretation, having played a significant role in the seismic programs that helped launch the Utica Shale play in Ohio from 2010–2012. During that period, he was involved in seismic programs encompassing thousands of miles of 2D and hundreds of miles of 3D acquisition. He has worked with numerous oil and gas operators throughout the Northeast and has developed a reputation for practical, technically sound project execution and field leadership. Today, Mr. McCrossin remains actively involved in oil and gas development and Class II injection-well projects across Ohio (LOUD Minerals), West Virginia (Cairo & Belmont), and Illinois (Marine Oil Field) and Ohio (Richland Oil), including current drilling, seismic, completion, and facility-construction initiatives. His combination of deep technical expertise, extensive field experience, and hands-on operational leadership provides a unique ability to evaluate opportunities and execute complex energy projects from concept through completion.

Morgan O'Brien is the President and Founder of Throtl Tech, a new logistics platform built to streamline communication and navigation in the oil and gas industry. A Bradford, Pennsylvania native, Morgan has spent his entire career in oil and gas operations and technology, giving him a first-hand understanding of the challenges that Throtl Tech is designed to address. Before founding Throtl Tech, Morgan spent six years at Deep Well Services, rising from BD Manager to Chief Technology Officer, where he led engineering, analytics, and technology strategy. Earlier in his career, he held progressively senior roles at XTO Energy, including Operations Superintendent, and Drilling and Completions Engineer, and served as a Drilling Engineer at EQT Corporation and Pennsylvania General Energy. He began his career in the industry working in his hometown at American Refining Group. Morgan holds a Master's degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, an MBA from Washington State University, and a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Alfred University. With deep technical expertise and years of hands-on experience across drilling, completions, and engineering leadership, Morgan brings a practical perspective to innovation in oil and gas technology. He looks forward to sharing insights on how Throtl Tech is transforming the industry at this year's event.

Edward is Sr. Director of Automation at Keystone Clearwater, a leading water management services company in the Oil & Energy market. With over 12 years of experience in the industry, Edward has leveraged new technology to revolutionize IoT operations in the field. Joining Keystone Clearwater in 2018, he played a pivotal role in establishing and implementing the WaterForce automation program, overseeing the program’s rapid growth and industry-wide acceptance. Today, the WaterForce portfolio boasts 100+ ruggedized and mobile PLC control skids, effectively controlling a diverse range of critical water transfer equipment, including pumps, flow control valves, flowmeters, and level sensors. This system has been championed in R&D efforts to orchestrate the first fully autonomous well completions project. Prior to his tenure at Keystone Clearwater, Edward held roles at Halliburton – Sperry Drilling as an MWD Field Lead, and at Geospatial Corporation as a project manager, where he applied advanced sensing technologies to map underground assets in the Oil & Energy market.

A U.S. Navy veteran and Purdue University mechanical engineering graduate, Don Tron began his career with Ashland Oil Company in 1987 before joining start-up Fluid Systems, Inc. in Evansville, Indiana. There he handled sales, mechanical work, and project management, developing pump and filtration solutions for oil and gas, power, reverse osmosis, coal, and industrial clients across the U.S., Australia, the Caribbean, and South America. He became president in 2007, CEO in 2008, and majority owner in 2015.

In 2012 he founded Fluid Moving Solutions, LLC, which permits, designs, and builds saltwater disposal and frac water transfer facilities. Over his career he has supplied, designed, built, and trained staff for roughly 37 saltwater disposal facilities in 11 states, working with clients including R360, Seneca Resources, CNX, EQT, Buckeye Brine, and Arrowhead Disposal.

Pete is known in the O&G industry for organizing the largest completions supply chain business conferences in the United States – something he has been doing for almost a decade.

Joseph Triepke is an accomplished energy professional with over two decades of experience in energy finance, research, publishing, and large-scale events. His career began on Wall Street where he covered publicly traded oilfield service on both the sell-side and the buy-side for firms including Jefferies, JP Morgan, Guggenheim, and Citadel. Since then, has successfully founded and co-founded four highly respected firms to serve energy capital allocators with independent data, research publications, and industry conferences. In addition to co-managing Oilfield Water Connection, Joseph leads the shale research teams at Lium Research and Infill Thinking and co-manages The Power Connection.