Marian Young, president of BrightFields, Inc., Wilmington, was awarded the 2016 Brava Award by Philadelphia SmartCEO. The Brava Awards celebrate the achievements of 40 of Greater Philadelphia’s top women business leaders.
Young is involved in many organizations including Vice President of the Delawareans for Environmental and Economic Development (DEED), New Castle County Resource Protection Area Technical Advisory Council, Co-chair of DNREC’s Ecological Restoration and Green Remediation Committee, a member of the Society of Women Environmental Professionals and the Committee of 100.
She has built a 45-person company with technically strong, responsible, and proactive employees who solve environmental challenges for clients and communities, a release stated.
Young says, “We love to innovate at BrightFields! We work with research scientists to develop and test new remediation strategies, like microbes that degrade polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). We restore degraded streams and wetlands. We actively train and develop future generations of scientists, engineers, technicians and equipment operators. Our team is dedicated, hard-working and passionate about cleaning up former industrial properties so they can be used again – to build new roads, buildings, parks or wildlife habitats. When these blighted areas are redeveloped, the surrounding communities are uplifted and revitalized.”
The Brava Awards program celebrates high-impact female business leaders in three categories: CEOs, Executive Directors of Nonprofits, and C-suite executives.
BrightFields is headquartered in Wilmington, with offices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Baltimore.
Brightfields is a woman-owned business in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and New Jersey.
Visit www.brightfieldsinc.com for further information.
