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Jeana L Woods is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with an extensive background in public accounting, municipal finance, and city administration. Her career spans over two decades, showcasing her expertise in financial management, public accounting, administration, and municipal governance.

Brett is an International City-County Management Association (ICMA) Credentialed Manager. He is a marginally Retired Manager, Governmental Consultant, Trust Administrator, and Management Accountant with BakerAndAssociates1.com. 

Steve’s 49-year career spans corporate, business, real estate, and economic development. The common thread among his assignments is moving public, nonprofit, and private organizations into and through startup and growth, and combinations that make financial, operational, and cultural sense, while building the place around him. 

Our Founder & CEO, Jeff Hancock, has over 49 years of municipal experience. He has served as a city administrator, assistant city manager, budget officer, and manager of economic and development in cities with populations ranging from 7,700 to 495,000.

Julianne Stone is the President of Stone Consulting. She specializes in work with public and non-profit sector clients, navigating and facilitating conversations and processes around strategic planning and implementation, priority-setting, designing and delivering educational workshops, community outreach and engagement, and collaborative partnership efforts. Stone has extensive experience working with local government officials, boards of directors, and executive organizational leadership to identify and reach their goals. 

Ewell Lawson is a skilled public sector and utility industry leader with over three decades of experience in utilities, government, and association management. He has served in key leadership roles supporting all levels of government, from local municipalities to national associations, federal service, and academic institutes. His utility experience stems from working directly with over 120 municipal utilities to improve management and service delivery.

Ashley is a certified HR professional (Certified Compensation Professional (CCP), Certified Benefits Professional (CBP), SHRM- CP and PHR) with over seventeen years of experience in compensation, HRIS, recruiting, employee relations, training and development, payroll, and benefits administration. 

Stephen Rasmussen has had an extensive career in city management, serving as the Assistant City Administrator in Maryland Heights, Missouri, City Administrator in Ottumwa, Iowa, City Administrator for Jefferson City, Missouri, Interim City Administrator in Fairview Heights, Illinois, Assistant City Manager and Acting City Manager in Bloomington, Illinois, and then City Manager in Cameron for over six years. 

Marty Corcoran became Parks and Recreation Director for the City of Bridgeton in 1976, serving in that position for approximately two years before becoming the City Administrator for the City of Bridgeton where he served for six years.

In September of 1983, he accepted a position with his hometown of Maplewood, Missouri as City Manager and remained in that position for 36 years. During Mr. Corcoran's tenure as City Manager of the City of Maplewood, he has been instrumental in bringing stability and respectability back to local government, providing a sound fiscal basis for municipal operations and was instrumental in major redevelopment projects including the 62-acre Sunnen Business Industrial Park, the Sam’s Club, Walmart and Lowes and Schlafly Bottleworks Brewery and Restaurant. The Walmart project was completed without Tax Increment Financing.