Chapter 20 Board Members

Director:
Matthew Hagelin, SR/WA
Great River Energy
12300 Elm Creek Blvd
Maple Grove, MN 55369
Office: 612-254-503
Email: [email protected]

Matt Hagelin is a Senior Field Representative with Great River Energy. He represents Great River Energy in real estate and right-of-way matters related to electric transmission and generation facilities. Matt has graduated from the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth with a degree in business management. He lives near Duluth, Minnesota where he loves to spend time with his wife and two daughters.

President:
Brian Mielke, SR/WA
WSB & Associates, Inc.
701 Xenia Avenue South, Suite 300
Office: 612-368-7835
Email: [email protected]

Brian Mielke is a Right of Way Specialist at WSB and Associates, Inc. with over 15 years of right of way focus and over 20 years of real estate experience. Brian has managed the right of way and local permitting for a variety of project types and sizes both on the client and consultant side. He has worked closely with other departments involved in projects; including engineering, legal, construction, and title. Brian has also directly negotiated and acquired temporary easements, access rights, permanent easements, and fee simple acquisitions.

Brian holds both a Bachelor’s degree and MBA, is a licensed real estate agent, and has both a SR/WA and RW-NAC designation.

In his spare time, Brian is a Planning Commissioner and coaches youth sports in his city of residence. He enjoys hunting, fishing, boating, and motorcycling with his wife and daughters; as well as attending all of their sporting events.

President-Elect:
Sean Lawler, SR/WA

Xcel Energy
414 Nicollet Mall 6A
Minneapolis, MN 55401
Office: 612-330-1956
Email: [email protected]

Sean Lawler is a Land Rights Agent at Xcel Energy. He joined Xcel Energy in 2012 and manages right-of-way acquisitions and local permitting activities for transmission and generation facilities throughout the upper Midwest. He is a skilled negotiator, negotiating with landowners and their legal representatives for the acquisition of land rights, up to and including the process of condemnation. Sean also guides major wind, solar, and transmission projects through siting, routing, permitting, and other regulatory processes before federal, state, and local agencies.

Sean attended St. Cloud State University and received a Bachelor’s Degree in Planning and Community Development. Sean lives in Buffalo, Minnesota with his wife and three young children. In his free time, Sean does NOT enjoy warm beer, fish getting off his hook, or having his heart broken by the Minnesota Vikings.

Treasurer:
Faye Gillespie

WSB and Associates, Inc.
477 Temperance Street
St. Paul, MN 55101
Office: 612-246-9695
Email: [email protected]

Faye Gillespie is a Right of Way Specialist with more than 20 years-experience in the real estate industry, with the past 10 years concentrated in acquisition and relocation projects. Faye offers a unique blend of technical expertise with valuable behind the scenes experience. Her specialty is relationship management, including the provision of superior client service, building trust and rapport with landowners, and maintaining open lines of communication with all parties to ensure a timely and efficient process. Faye is experienced in land rights for local and state governments, as well as public and private utilities, and other entities. She has been a member of the International Right of Way Association since 2011.

Secretary:
Joseph Haefner

Bolton & Menk, Inc.
1501 South State Street
Suite 100
Fairmont, MN 56031-4467
Phone: 507-238-4738 ext. 2342
Email: [email protected]

Joe began surveying in 1997 and is licensed in the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois. As the Energy Sector Survey Manager, he oversees all aspects of land surveying and mapping activities from initial setup through project delivery. Additionally, Joe leads the survey management team providing strategic vision, integrated coordination, standards, performance, and staff development.

Joe’s project experience includes energy projects such as electric transmission, electric sub-stations, natural gas pipelines, gas regulator stations, industrial plants, and wind turbine projects. He has experience performing, preparing, and supervising surveys involving government land corners and corner certificates, section breakdowns, highway right-of-way, and railroad property and is responsible for boundary, topographic, and engineering design surveys; section corner remonumentation, right-of-way and subdivision platting, ALTA/ NSPS land title surveys, construction staking, acquisition surveys (easement and fee), and preparing and interpreting property descriptions.