Matt Berlew

Matt Berlew serves as Director of Mergers and Acquisitions for Trinity Consultants. He leads the firm’s deal sourcing and execution initiatives in the area of corporate mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to joining Trinity, Matt served as Sr. Director of Corporate Development for ACTIVE Network, a private equity-backed software company where he identified target acquisition candidates, negotiated deal terms, led due diligence, and coordinated initial integration efforts of acquired companies. He also held various corporate development, strategy, and finance positions with Sabre Corporation.

Matt received a BA in Economics from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business.

Anna Aumann

Anna Aumann is a seasoned environmental consultant with over 20 years of experience, based in Trinity’s Chicago office and serves as a Regional Manager for Trinity’s Midwest region. Anna has been instrumental in delivering high-impact environmental consulting services to a broad spectrum of industries, including petroleum refining, terminals and pipelines, power generation, data centers, building products, roofing and asphalt, food manufacturing, and coating and printing.

Anna has extensive experience supporting clients with project strategy and environmental compliance. Her expertise spans complex air quality permitting projects such as Title V, Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) avoidance, state operating permits, and construction permitting. She is adept at navigating regulatory frameworks including New Source Performance Standards (NSPS), National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP), state-specific environmental regulations, and refrigerant management requirements.

As a trusted advisor, Anna partners closely with clients to align environmental strategies with business objectives. Her collaborative work with state and federal agencies has led to flexible permitting outcomes and successful resolution of compliance challenges and agency violations.

Anna earned a M.S. degree and a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University.

David EB Strohm

Mr. Strohm serves as Managing Consultant for Trinity Consultants’ Boise, Idaho Office. Throughout his 18-year professional career, he has served clients in industries including food and animal products, chemical and fertilizer production, coal mining, metals mining, phosphate mining and processing, upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas, natural gas and coal fired electrical generation. He serves as the national lead for Trinity Consultants work with the National Mining Association and sits on the Environmental Committee for the Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry.

Mr. Strohm has worked in both the public and private sector on all aspects of air quality. His background includes facility and regional scale atmospheric dispersion modeling, state and federal air quality permitting and compliance, ambient air quality and meteorological monitoring, ambient acoustical modeling, and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementation.

Mr. Strohm has specialized project experience in atmospheric modeling and has completed numerous air quality and noise analyses using Gaussian, Puff, Photochemical Grid and acoustical models. In addition, Mr. Strohm has extensive expertise related to NEPA air resource analyses, PSD applicability and permitting, Title V and New Source Review (NSR) permitting programs, and regulatory applicability determinations.

Mr. Strohm has a B.S. in Meteorology from the University of Utah and has worked previously for the Utah Division of Air Quality as well as other air quality consulting firms.

David Wall

David Wall, PE, is the Director of Refinery Sector Services and a 26-year veteran of the firm. As Director, David leads complex projects that integrate technical expertise with local regulatory insight to effectively meet the needs of refinery clients. With extensive hands-on experience at refinery sites, he supports daily compliance operations and crafts strategic permitting solutions. This extensive experience has enabled David to develop deep, specialized knowledge of the refining industry.

He has significant compliance support, permitting, and auditing experience in the petroleum refining and petrochemical industries. He has managed permitting projects ranging from minor modifications to multi-billion dollar capital projects. He has performed consent decree- based and internally driven compliance audits at refineries and chemical plants with topics ranging from general Title V compliance to historical PSD applicability issues and U.S. EPA enforcement initiative “marquee” issues such as BWON, NSPS J/Ja, LDAR, and flaring. He has provided consulting and expert support in a number of permit appeals and litigation matters. He also serves as the instructor for Trinity’s Clean Air Act Workshop for Petroleum Refineries and Benzene Waste Operations NESHAP professional training courses.

David graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering and is a registered professional engineer (PE) and Certified Manager (CM).

Nicole Saniti

Nicole Saniti, PE, is based in Trinity’s Washington, D.C. office and serves as a Regional Directo for Trinity’s Appalachian region. Since 2005, she has been dedicated to delivering top-notch environmental consulting services to a diverse array of clients throughout the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. Her extensive professional background spans various industries, including chemical, power generation, automotive assembly, building products, glass manufacturing, and other general manufacturing sectors.

Nicole’s expertise lies in environmental project strategy development and environmental project management. She has significant experience in air quality permitting, including Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD), Plantwide Applicability Limits (PAL), state New Source Review (NSR), Title V operating permits, and state operating permits. She also guides clients through regulatory applicability analyses, New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) and National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) compliance, air quality compliance reporting, dispersion modeling, emission inventories, and stack test facilitation. In addition to her air quality expertise, Nicole supports Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) reporting, Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC)/ Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) development, and environmental audits.

Throughout her career, Nicole has been a strategic advisor to clients, devising permitting and regulatory strategies that align environmental compliance with business needs. Her success as a liaison between clients and state and local agency personnel have yielded flexible permits tailored to optimize facility operations. Further, Nicole collaborates closely with senior client leadership to navigate the dynamic landscape of regulatory changes, ensuring ongoing environmental compliance.

Nicole has earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rochester and an M.B.A from Wake Forest University. She is a registered Professional Engineer in North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas.

Russell Iorio

Russell Iorio serves as Managing Director of Corporate Development for Trinity Consultants. He brings over 30 years of corporate development and M&A experience to his role at Trinity.

Prior to joining Trinity, Russell served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for Leggett & Platt, a publicly-traded global manufacturing company, where he led the company’s M&A program as well as New Growth Platform development and corporate strategic planning. Prior to joining Leggett & Platt, Russell was Vice President of Planning & Development for PennWell Corporation, a privately-held business-to-business media company.

Russell received a BSBA in Finance from the University of Tulsa and an MBA from Rice University.

Tom Muscenti

Tom Muscenti, PE, is based in Trinity’s Pittsburgh, PA office and serves as Regional Manager overseeing Trinity’s Mid-Atlantic region, while assisting the regulated community in the region with a variety of environmental compliance issues.

He is involved in state, Title V, and federal NSR permitting projects, as well as NSPS and MACT compliance assistance. Tom has assisted clients from varied industries, including oil and gas, chemical production, lime, and glass manufacturing with environmental regulation compliance.

In supporting his clients, Tom has provided public hearing support, compliance auditing, and regulatory agency negotiation, as well as managing ambient monitoring and leak detection repair programs in the natural gas industry. He has experience working with Federal, state and local agencies throughout the Mid-Atlantic states as part of coordinated multi-state permitting efforts for clients.

He also serves as the instructor for Trinity’s Clean Air Act for the Oil & Gas Industry and Air Quality Compliance for Natural Gas Operations in the Appalachian Basin professional training courses.

Tom graduated from Virginia Tech with a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering and is a registered professional engineer (PE).

Robert Liles

Rob has more than 25 years of experience in the air quality consulting field, including state and federal air quality permitting, Indian Lands permitting, compliance management system development, environmental audits, ambient monitoring, air dispersion modeling, emissions inventories, control technology reviews, litigation support, and air toxics evaluations.

He has extensive experience in Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Wyoming, Utah, and North Dakota where he is responsible for managing project work, teaching regulatory courses, and contributing to stakeholder processes. Rob has experience working with clients in the oil & gas, mining, petroleum refining, agriculture, power generation, and general manufacturing industries.

He is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and manages consulting operations for Trinity’s Southwest and Rocky Mountain Region.