Greg has represented the agency in Northeast Florida since February of 2012. Greg is responsible for the day-to-day administrative, planning, production and operations activities for 18 counties, covering nearly 12,000 square miles from the Florida-Georgia border, south to Putnam, Levy and Alachua counties and from the Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean.

His territory includes the challenging but beautiful area known as Paynes Prairie and Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park. Hurricane Irma created an evacuation challenge for the area due to flooding over Payne’s Prairie and US 441. Greg successfully managed our state’s first use of Limited Emergency Shoulder Use in evacuations during Hurricane Irma. Greg’s district is home to FDOT’s FDOTree program, to promote communication and community involvement of our landscaping program in the area.

Greg has more than 25 years of experience in the management and operations of public infrastructure.

Jason Peters is a Professional Engineer with 31 years of service with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT). Jason earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Auburn University and began his career with the Department in the P.E. Training Program. Over the years, he has served approximately 17 years in the office of Roadway Design which includes 8 years as the Consultant Project Manager. In 2007, Mr. Peters was appointed as the District Intermodal Systems Development Manager until September 2011 when he was appointed as the Director of Transportation Development. In April 2016, he became the Director of Transportation Operations.

Chris has worked for the Department of Environmental Protection since 2004. He is currently the State Clearinghouse Coordinator and DEP’s ETDM ETAT member. Past duties within the Department have included evaluating proposed land use changes, compliance & enforcement and environmental resource permitting. He has served on several FTP/SIS Steering Committees, as well as various past corridor planning efforts. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Mississippi State and a Master’s Degree from Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.

Brian McManus is the Chief of Staff for the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO). Brian has extensive experience in state government, with a robust background in strategic problem solving, legislative affairs and policy making. Prior to DEO, he served in multiple positions in the Florida Senate, as the Deputy Legislative Director for the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice and as the Legislative Director for the Florida Department of Community Affairs. Brian received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science from Florida State University.

Paul Myers relies on over 30 years of public health experience in his role as Administrator for the Florida Department of Health in Alachua County. He started at DOH-Alachua in 1988 as an Environmental Health Inspector, was promoted to Environmental Supervisor in 1994, and then became the Environmental Health and Epidemiology Director in 2000. In 2008, he became the Assistant Director for DOH-Alachua until he became its Administrator in 2012. Paul also served as Interim Administrator for DOH-Gadsden in 2011, restoring stability and providing a framework for its continued improvement.

In 2014 and into 2015, Paul served as Interim Deputy Secretary for County Health Systems providing leadership and guidance to the DOH’s 67 County Health Departments (CHDs) throughout the state. In 2016, he was permanently appointed to this role and served in that expanded capacity until January of 2019.

Having returned fully to his role as Administrator for DOH-Alachua, Paul continues to ensure the effective provision of Public Health Clinical Care, Environmental Health, Communicable Disease, and Emergency Response services to residents and visitors in Alachua County. As the leader of a “hub” county, Paul leads the largest operational consortium in the DOH system providing North Central Florida CHD’s with Information Technology, Human Resource, Fiscal. Legal, Environmental Health and Communicable Disease services.

Paul has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences and a Master's of Science degree in Environmental Engineering, both from the University of Florida.

Chris Wynn is the North Central Regional Director with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). He started with FWC in 2002 as a black bear biologist partnering with the Department of Transportation to reduce wildlife-vehicle mortality.

He then served eight years as a wildlife biologist in FWC’s Office of Conservation Planning Services, providing wildlife-related habitat technical assistance and landscape planning to landowners.

Chris earned a Wildlife Biology degree in 2001 from Grand Valley State University, a Master of Business Administration in 2017 from the University of Florida and is a 2012 fellow of the National Conservation Leadership Institute.

Pegeen Hanrahan is a registered Professional Engineer and Southeast Conservation Finance Director for the Trust for Public Land. A native and lifelong resident, she served Gainesville, Florida as its Mayor from 2004-2010, and as a City Commissioner from 1996-2002, term limited twice. Pegeen has nearly 30 years of experience in environmental remediation, public participation, private sector engineering, land conservation and local government finance.

Pegeen has served as President of the Florida League of Mayors, Chair of the Alachua County Library District and Alachua County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), and serves on the boards of the University of Florida’s Bob Graham Center for Public Service, Florida State University’s LeRoy Collins Institute, the Mayors’ Innovation Project, the Wagmore Foundation, Florida Conservation Voters, and Alachua Conservation Trust.

Mark has served the Florida Public Service Commission since 1990 in various capacities. Since 2016, he has served as the Deputy Executive Director over the technical staff in the Divisions of Accounting & Finance, Engineering, Economics, and the Office of Industry Development and Market Analysis. In this position, Mark provides direction and leadership for the technical staff and advises the Executive Director in all technical issues pending or presently before the Commission.

Prior to accepting his present position, Mark had responsibilities in legislative activities, and with the industries over which the Commission has regulatory authority, including electric, natural gas, water and wastewater, and telecommunications. Specifically, he had responsibilities involving federal energy rulemaking, including carbon regulation, electric utility rate cases, power plant need determination proceedings, ten-year site plans, conservation goals proceedings, renewable energy initiatives.

Mark served the Governor’s Energy Office from 1986-1990.

Mark holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration-Finance, and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration.

Eric Anderson works as the director of rural and agricultural development for Enterprise Florida, Inc., the state’s principal economic development organization. Enterprise Florida is a public-private partnership responsible for leading statewide economic development efforts. Working with its 67 stakeholders, utility partners and business leaders across the state, Enterprise Florida works to grow and diversify the state’s rural and agricultural economies through job creation.

In his role, Eric provides support and guidance to Florida’s 36 rural communities, facilitating economic growth through business retention and expansion, and helps with residential entrepreneurship, regionalism and business attraction. As director of rural and agricultural development, he will play an instrumental role in connecting residents, constituents and stakeholders to the resources and assistance they need to grow their regions

I have worked with the DBPR for 27 years, with the past 18 years being with the Division of Regulation and oversee the investigations / inspections of (4) field offices in North Florida; from Pensacola to Jacksonville. Our Division licenses and regulates contractors (amongst many other disciplines) and most of our work centers around the regulation of those contractors. An additional designated duty of mine is to oversee and liaison with the Department of Emergency Management after significant storms / hurricanes. After the storms; investigators in our division, along with FEMA and County personnel provide Physical Damage Assessments of property to DEM and FEMA in an effort to help those Departments have the necessary information to determine whether a disaster will be declared by FEMA. I coordinate and help provide training to our (10) field offices for this process. As you know, Florida has been hit with many hurricanes / storms since the early 90s and I have been involved with the rebuild of many communities throughout Florida.

Audrey Kidwell, Volunteer Florida, is the program manager for the Volunteer Generation Fund, a program increases the capacity of organizations to recruit, manage, support and retain skills-based volunteers. She has served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Burkina Faso, West Africa, and an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer at the Butler Center for Volunteer Service and Leadership. Audrey has 10+ years working with recruiting and managing volunteers. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Studies from the University of Southern Indiana and her Master’s in Community & Social Change at the University of Miami.