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utility owners, contractors, and other industry
professionals, to support safe, cost-effective and
efficient application of the pipe ramming method.

Common Ground Alliance
commongroundalliance.com
Common Ground Alliance (CGA), the organization
dedicated to protecting underground infrastructure, welcomed Crown Castle, the nation's largest
provider of shared communications infrastructure,
as its newest platinum member.
Crown Castle will work in partnership with 240
other member companies to advance education and
policymaking initiatives that protect underground infrastructure and the people working on them, at the
local and national levels. CGA provides a forum for
coordination across industries that will allow Crown
Castle to share best practices in preventing damage
to communications infrastructure and to enhance
the company's high standards for protecting utilities.
"We're proud to welcome Crown Castle as CGA's
newest member," said Sarah K. Magruder Lyle, president and CEO. "Communications infrastructure is
an increasingly critical component of our lives and,
as our need for connectivity continues to expand,
companies like Crown Castle will help ensure that
this growth is done with safety in mind for existing
underground infrastructure."

Thales Water Advisors
thales-water.com
Three water industry experts launched Thales Water
Advisors, a new strategy and finance consultancy that
helps clients navigate the complex water industry.
Leveraging decades of experience in water technology, operations, finance and strategy, Thales
provides current, comprehensive intelligence to
empower its clients' decision making. The team's
expansive network of industry experts and proprietary insights on technical and market trends assist
clients through product strategy, technical due
diligence, technical advisory, investment strategy,
market assessment, and M&A strategy and support.
"Between the founding partners, we know most
water industry leaders and have worked with the
largest water companies at the C-suite level," said
David Rose, founder, who previously founded H2O
Insights, and was senior vice president of Wedbush
Securities and Jefferies & Co.
The new firm believes multi-disciplinary approaches are key to success.
"It's not about just having the best technology,"
commented co-founder Dr. Rafael Simon,

former COO at ZENON Environmental and lead
water industry partner at VantagePoint Capital
Partners. "Building successful strategies is
about the intersection between market trends,
unique capabilities, access to customers, and
differentiated technologies.
Thales also believes the best results start with

proprietary insights formed through decades
of experience.
"While we've known each other and worked
together for years, we feel we are much stronger
joining forces in a single firm," said co-founder,
Dr. Terry Mah, former CEO of Veolia North America
and COO of Veolia Water Technologies. *

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