GBB hires marketing coordinator

Gershman, Brickner & Bratton Inc. (GBB), McLean, Virginia, has announced that Ashlea Smith has joined the firm as marketing coordinator. Smith has marketing, proposal and project coordination experience in the recycling, waste management and energy efficiency industries. She will coordinate the proposal development process and contribute to the firm's marketing initiatives.

"Ashlea has an interesting combination of marketing, business development support and proposal management experience for consulting and design firms that is valuable for the marketing coordinator position," Lori Scozzafava, GBB senior vice president and operations officer, says. "Additionally, her personal interest for environmental causes, recycling and sustainability initiatives makes her a good match to be a part of the GBB team."

"I'm excited to join GBB and get the opportunity to use my skillset and experience and further expand it, while working closely with a group of professionals with a similar passion than mine for the environment," Smith says.

Prior to joining GBB, she was proposal, marketing and recruiting coordinator at George Sexton Associates LLC, a lighting and museum design firm located in Washington, supporting marketing initiatives and business/proposal development efforts. She was also project coordinator for Ecore Living LLC, a Washington-based environmental consulting firm, coordinating projects that included various waste reduction, recycling and energy efficiency initiatives for public and private sector clients in the Washington area.

Smith’s experience also includes working with Freestate Farms, an agricultural consulting firm based in Fauquier County, Virginia, where her responsibilities ranged from review and coordination of responses to requests for proposals for waste conversion, anaerobic digestions and composting projects, to business development and public relations. She participated in the Sustainable DC Waste Management Working Group as part of her responsibilities. After graduating from college, she was program coordinator at the Alice Ferguson Foundation, an Accokeek, Maryland-based nonprofit organization promoting the environmental sustainability of the Potomac River watershed, where she coordinated activities of the Trash Free Potomac Watershed Initiative and served as co-chair of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Government's Organics Task Force.

Smith earned a Bachelor of Arts, Government and Comparative Politics and a Certificate of Project Management from George Mason University (GMU), in Fairfax, Virginia, where she was co-chair of the GMU Recycling Working Group and member of the Sustainability Council. She can be reached at asmith@gbbinc.com and 703-573-5800.