Corporate Profile
Over a century of knowledge, experience and quality service…
Incorporated as a water utility in 1897, Middlesex Water Company (NASDAQ:MSEX) provides a full range of regulated and non-regulated water, wastewater utility and related services in parts of New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania. Middlesex Water engages in collecting, treating, distributing and selling water for domestic, commercial, municipal, industrial and fire protection purposes.
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Middlesex Water Company owns and operates regulated water utility and wastewater systems in New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania. The Company also operates water and wastewater systems under contract on behalf of municipal and private clients in New Jersey and Delaware. Middlesex Water has grown from a single water utility to an enterprise with distinct business operating units meeting a full range of residential, commercial, and municipal water and wastewater needs.
Through our affiliated companies we are delivering technical and management capabilities that creatively address challenges such as aging infrastructure and increasing regulatory pressures faced by municipalities, developers and small system owners. The company’s subsidiaries include Tidewater Utilities, Inc., Pinelands Water Company, Pinelands Wastewater Company, Twin Lakes Utilities, Inc., Utility Service Affiliates, Inc., Utility Service Affiliates (Perth Amboy) Inc., Utility Service Affiliates – Avalon and Tidewater Environmental Systems, Inc. Tidewater’s wholly-owned subsidiaries include Southern Shores Water Company, LLC and White Marsh Environmental Systems, Inc.
The Company has two overall business segments:
- Regulated: The regulated business involves collecting, treating and distributing water on a retail and wholesale basis to residential, commercial, industrial and fire protection customers in parts of New Jersey and Delaware. This segment also includes regulated wastewater systems in New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania.
- Non-Regulated: Non-regulated contract services includes the operation and maintenance of municipal and private water and wastewater systems in New Jersey and Delaware.
JAMES F. COSGROVE, Jr. P.E. is Vice President and Principal of Kleinfelder, a firm offering consulting in architecture, civil and structural engineering, construction management, environmental analysis, remediation, and natural resources management throughout the U.S., Canada and Australia. A Professional Engineer licensed in the State of New Jersey, Mr. Cosgrove has over 30 years’ experience in the field of environmental engineering and science with extensive background in water quality monitoring and modeling. Prior to his current position, Mr. Cosgrove was Principal and Founder of Omni Environmental LLC, an environmental consulting firm based in Princeton, NJ. Mr. Cosgrove’s professional affiliations include the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Water Resources Association, the National Society of Professional Engineers, and the Water Environment Federation, among others. He served as a director of the Association of Environmental Authorities from 2005-2011 and currently serves on the New Jersey Clean Water Council. Mr. Cosgrove received a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Lafayette College and earned his M.E. in Environmental and Water Resource Systems Engineering from Cornell University.
DENNIS W. DOLL serves as Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Middlesex Water Company.
KIM C. HANEMANN is Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G), New Jersey’s oldest and largest public utility company. Her responsibilities included oversight of PSE&G’s many operations such as: electric operations, gas operations, customer operations as well as asset management. This large portfolio of services under Ms. Hanemann’s management also includes management of key components of PSE&G’s resiliency initiatives and asset hardening projects on company facilities. Although larger in scope and cost, these utility infrastructure challenges are analogous to those managed by Middlesex Water Company. Ms. Hanemann has held numerous leadership positions in both electric and gas field operations and in utility support operations. She was named Vice President in 2010, and Senior Vice President in 2014 and COO in 2019. Ms. Hanemann serves as a director of the Foundation Board of Children’s Specialized Hospital. She is also the Executive Sponsor for PSEG Women’s Network, an employee resource group aimed at providing women with career development insights. Ms. Hanemann earned her Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University and an M.B.A. from Rutgers Graduate School of Management.
AMY B. MANSUE is Executive Vice President and Chief Experience Officer of RWJBarnabas Health. She formerly served as RWJBarnabas Health President of the Southern Region for 2 and a half years and she served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Children’s Specialized Hospital for 13 years. Ms. Mansue’s background includes serving as a staff member on healthcare policy for former New Jersey Governor Jim Florio, serving as a Deputy Commissioner in the New Jersey Department of Human Services and as Deputy Chief of Staff to former New Jersey Governor James McGreevey. She was President of HIP/NJ and Senior VP of Strategy for HIP/NY. Ms. Mansue serves on the Boards of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce and the New Brunswick Development Corporation. Ms. Mansue holds a Bachelor’s degree in social welfare and a Master’s degree in social work, planning and management from the University of Alabama.
ANN L. NOBLE serves as a Financial Consultant providing advisory services in the areas of strategic planning, financial management and contract negotiation. She previously worked for Qual-Lynx for 14 years holding various positions including President and Chief Executive Officer the last 5 years of her tenure. Prior to that, Ms. Noble served as Vice President, Workers’ Compensation for QualCare, Inc. and Vice President of Finance for Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Ms. Noble’s background includes financial and contract management, sales and strategic planning. Ms. Noble serves on the Board of Manasquan Bank and is a Member of the Board of Trustees and Treasurer of the Val Skinner Foundation. Ms. Noble holds a B.S. in Accounting from Seton Hall University and is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive).
WALTER G. REINHARD, ESQ. served as a partner in the law firm of Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, P.A. prior to his retirement from the active practice of law and partnership in the firm on December 31, 2014. He had been with the firm since 1984 and practiced administrative, environmental and regulatory law involving public utilities. He brings over 40 years of law experience to the Board including expertise in handling regulatory matters before the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. During his tenure at Norris, McLaughlin & Marcus, Mr. Reinhard’s professional affiliations included the New Jersey State Bar Association and its Public Utility Law Section (Chair, 1988-89), the Water Utility Council of the American Water Works Association, New Jersey Chapter, and the New Jersey Chapter of the National Association of Water Companies. Mr. Reinhard serves as a Trustee of the Fanwood-Scotch Plains YMCA. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D. from Pennsylvania State University’s Dickinson School of Law.
JEFFRIES SHEIN is managing partner, JGT Management Company, LLC, a management and investment firm since 2003. He was formerly a Partner of Jacobsen, Goldfarb and Tanzman Associates, one of the largest industrial and commercial real estate brokerage firms in New Jersey. Mr. Shein retired from the Board of Directors of Provident Bank in April 2015 and was a director of its predecessor First Savings Bank. Mr. Shein has served on boards and committees of numerous communities, non-profit and professional organizations. Mr. Shein is a member of the Society of Office and Industrial Realtors. He received a B.A. in Economics from Rutgers University.
Mr. Andreasen has over 35 years of experience in water & wastewater utility operations in the areas of planning, engineering, construction, and management. Since he joined the Company in 1982 he has been responsible for capital program and project development and delivery, and implementation of programs and initiatives across the Company. He was elected Vice President- Enterprise Engineering in 2019, and is responsible for all engineering services, capital improvement activities, and asset management initiatives of the Company. Mr. Andreasen has a BS Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Clarkson University, and is a licensed professional engineer in NJ and Delaware. He is active with industry related organizations including the American Water Works Association, Water Environment Federation, NJ Utilities Association, and is an appointed member of NJ DEP’s Water Supply Advisory Council, currently serving as Vice Chair.
Dennis Doll serves as Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Middlesex Water Company (NASADAQ:MSEX), a publicly-traded investor-owned water and wastewater utility company established in 1897. Middlesex Water is one of eight remaining U.S. based publicly traded water utilities in the country. Mr. Doll has more than 35 years of experience in senior level positions in investor-owned water and wastewater utility management. He joined Middlesex Water as Executive Vice President in November 2004 and was named President and Chief Executive Officer, and a Director of Middlesex, effective January 1, 2006. In May 2010, he was elected Chairman of the Board also serving as Chairman of the Boards of Middlesex Water Company’s subsidiary companies. Mr. Doll speaks frequently on water related issues including asset & capital management, infrastructure policy, utility preparedness and resiliency. He has served as Past President and Chairman of the National Association of Water Companies and past Chairman and Director of the New Jersey Utilities Association, representing the state’s electric, gas, water and telecommunications industries. Mr. Doll presently serves as Chairman of the Board of The Water Research Foundation, the research arm of the drinking water industry with more than 1,000 subscribers across the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia. He also serves as Treasurer of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Middlesex County, NJ. He received a B.A. Degree in Accounting and Economics from Upsala College and is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive).
Mr. Fullagar has 30 years of experience in water and wastewater utility management, system operations, infrastructure improvement and capital program implementation, change management, worker safety, physical/cyber security, operational resiliency and emergency management. Mr. Fullagar joined the Company in 1997 as Director of Distribution and held positions of increasing responsibility before being named Vice President of Operations in January 2019. He oversees all departments and subsidiary operating units responsible for water and wastewater treatment, production, construction, distribution and collection. He chairs both the Emergency Management & Security and the Safety Committees which includes all subsidiary operating/business units. Mr. Fullagar earned his B.S. Degree in Civil Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and holds professional engineer and system operator’s licenses in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He is the sector chair for the New Jersey Infrastructure Advisory Committee where he represents investor and municipally owned water and wastewater utilities throughout the State in matters pertaining to resiliency. He is also a member of the New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Task Force – Water and Wastewater Sector Security and Resiliency Working Group, the Civil Engineering National Honor Society, the American Water Works Association, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the National Fire Protection Association, the New Jersey Utility Association and ASIS International.
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Jay Kooper joined Middlesex Water in March 2014 as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. Mr. Kooper has more than 20 years of experience as a public utilities attorney, having represented clients across every public utilities sector – water, wastewater, electric, gas, telephone and cable. Mr. Kooper is a Past Chair and serves on the Board of Consultors of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Public Utilities Law Section. Mr. Kooper also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Water Companies and selected non-profit Boards in New Jersey. In 2019, Mr. Kooper was named NJBIZ General Counsel of the Year and was previously recognized as a finalist for the NJBIZ General Counsel of the Year Award and the New York Stock Exchange’s Distinguished General Counsel Award. Mr. Kooper received his Juris Doctor from George Washington University Law School and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and History from Emory University.
Mr. O’Connor, a Certified Public Accountant, has more than 38 years experience in corporate, public and utility accounting. He joined the Company in 1990 and was elected Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 1996, Treasurer in 2014 and Senior Vice President in 2019. He is responsible for financial reporting, customer service, rate cases, cash management and financings. Mr. O’Connor earned a degree in Accounting from Monmouth University and an M.B.A in Finance from Rutgers University. His professional affiliations include the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the NJ State Society of Certified Public Accountants, the National Association of Water Companies and the New Jersey Utilities Association. Mr. O’Connor was also named President of Middlesex Water’s wholly-owned Delaware based subsidiary, Tidewater Utilities, Inc. effective January 1, 2019. He has served as the financial officer of Tidewater since its acquisition by Middlesex in 1992.
Georgia M. Simpson is the Vice President of the Information Technology department for the Middlesex Water Enterprise. She joined the company as Director of Information Technology in 2009. Ms. Simpson has over 24 years of experience in the Computer Science and Information Technology sector and has gained an extensive array of technical and business computer certifications. Ms. Simpson provides leadership for the continued development of an innovative, versatile, agile and secure technology environment for the Middlesex Water family of companies. She has extensive experience in cultivating and motiving team members to exceed personal and professional goals. Ms. Simpson graduated summa cum laude from Monroe College. She is a member of the New Jersey Project Management Institute, the Society for Information Management and the Association for Computing Machinery.
Ms. Sohler joined Middlesex Water in 1994, was named Director of Communications in 2003 and Vice President-Corporate Affairs in 2007. Ms. Sohler has more than 25 years of experience in providing strategic communications counsel in the utilities and financial sectors. She oversees corporate communications and investor relations, stakeholder engagement, government relations and media relations, digital marketing, corporate philanthropy and community relations. Prior to joining Middlesex she held marketing management positions in the financial services industry. Ms. Sohler is Chair of the New Jersey Utilities Association Communications Committee, a 2007 Leadership NJ graduate and serves in a leadership capacity on numerous industry and community boards. She has been recognized as a Leading Woman Intrapreneur & Corporate Leader, one of New Jersey’s 50 Best Women in Business and by Executive Women of New Jersey. Ms. Sohler earned her M.A. in Public Communication from Fordham University and her B.A. from Seton Hall University.