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Molly Cooper
mcooper@hallassoc.net

Molly Cooper directs Hall & Associates’ Chattanooga, Tennessee, office and specializes in research. A graduate of the University of Tennessee – Chattanooga, while in college Cooper became one of the youngest people ever to co-sponsor an NSF Phase I research grant. Prior to joining Hall & Associates, Cooper worked as a research assistant and grant writer and pre-school educator at the Tennessee Aquarium.
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Ned Bothfeld
ned@hallassoc.net

Ned Bothfeld joined Hall & Associates in 2012 and supports public and private sector transportation, homeland security, and health care clients while also focusing on client development.

Prior to joining Hall & Associates, Ned spent the previous three years living and working in Hangzhou, China. He served as a lead writer and a member of the editorial department of that’s Zhejiang magazine, a writer for NiuBBall.com, which provides in-depth coverage and analysis of Chinese basketball, and as an English tutor and American cultural consultant to the family of the CEO of Guangsha Group, one China’s largest construction and real estate companies.

Ned graduated from Miami University in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications. He also has experience in search engine optimization, private wealth management, and working in the non-profit sector.


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Mark Nicholson
mark@hallassoc.net

Mark Nicholson first joined Hall & Associates LLC in 2008 as researcher providing in depth research in transportation safety and security, as well as issues pertaining to healthcare and homeland security. Mark rejoined in June of 2010, and now supports public and private sector transportation, homeland security, energy, and health care clients.

Prior to rejoining Hall & Associates, Mark worked at Van Scoyoc Associates in Washington DC, a bipartisan government affairs firm where he focused on local government, appropriations,  water resources, transportation, energy and homeland security.

Mark graduated from Miami University in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Religion with a focus in Classical Humanities.  Mr. Nicholson has also done work with the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, a non-profit organization that gives scholarships to the children of Marines, with a special attention to the children of fallen Marines.

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Jamie Crooks
jcrooks@hallassoc.net

Jamie Crooks first joined Hall & Associates in 2006, providing in depth research in transportation safety and security, as well as issues pertaining to healthcare, finance, and homeland security. Crooks rejoined the team in 2008, and now supports public and private sector transportation, homeland security, energy, and health care clients. His primary practice areas are media relations, regulatory and government affairs, and litigation preparation.

Crooks graduated cum laude from Harvard University, receiving a bachelor’s degree in economics with a focus in government. While at Harvard, he was a senior editor of the Harvard College Economist, an economic journal focused on current issues in finance, trade, development, and fiscal and monetary policy. He attends Columbia Law School in New York City, where he has been named a James Kent Scholar. He currently serves as an Articles Editor of the Columbia Law Review. ____________________________________________________________________


Ken Johnson

kjohnson@hallassoc.net

Ken Johnson was born in Bralorne, British Columbia, and has Canadian and British citizenship. He was educated in Vancouver and received a bachelor of commerce degree from the University of British Columbia. He later qualified as a Certified General Accountant and gained experience in the private sector in accounting and property management.

He qualified as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force and gained advanced flying experience in the Air Force and as a civilian pilot. This included arctic surveillance, transport, search and rescue, and fighter duties. In 1967 he joined the Department of Transport as a civil aviation inspector and was involved in the flight calibration of navigational aids, together with the development and licensing of airports. In 1972 he became the planning manager for the Department's Central Region in Winnipeg.

Following an assignment as an economist/policy adviser with the multimodal Arctic Transportation Agency, he began a series of progressively senior management appointments. In 1975 he became Regional Manager, Airports, Pacific Region, responsible for the operation and development of 25 airports, including Vancouver International. He next worked as Pacific Regional Administrator responsible for all aspects of civil aviation in the region with a staff of 2,000. In 1978, he became Director of Airport Policy, Planning & Programming at headquarters in Ottawa.

In 1982 he became the Director of the Department of Transport's Aviation Safety Bureau. He was prominent in the planning and development of an independent aviation safety board. In 1984, he was appointed Executive Director of the new, independent Canadian Aviation Safety Board. He led that organization as its senior public servant and contributed to the conceptual planning for a multimodal safety board to encompass the air, marine, rail and pipeline modes of transport. In 1990 he was appointed Executive Director of the newly established Transportation Safety Board of Canada. He was the chief operating officer in that organization as it conducted approximately 200 investigations per year and developed its national and international capabilities in aviation, marine, railway and pipeline safety investigation until his retirement from public service in 2001.

He has an airline transport pilot’s license and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport. He is Chairman of the Board of the 450-bed Perley and Rideau Veterans Health Centre in Ottawa. In addition he is a Council member of the Centre for Aerospace Safety/Security Education at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, a member of the Board of Advisers for the Southern California Safety Institute, and president of the National Air Museum Society.

 

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