UTC Telecom & Technology 2019

Sarah Magruder Lyle
President and CEO
Common Ground Alliance


Sarah K. Magruder Lyle is President & CEO of the Common Ground Alliance (CGA), a stakeholder-run organization dedicated to protecting underground utility assets and the people who dig near them. Magruder Lyle works to build partnerships among CGA’s 1,700 members which share a common goal of eliminating excavation-related damage to nearly 20 million combined miles of underground facilities nationwide. She was appointed by the Secretary of Transportation to the Department’s Liquid Pipeline Advisory Committee (LPAC) which provides guidance to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) on regulations affecting pipeline safety standards in March of 2019. Prior to joining CGA, Magruder Lyle was Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), a national trade association representing high-tech American manufacturers of virtually the entire U.S. supply of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, other fuels and home heating oil, as well as the petrochemicals used as building blocks for thousands of vital products in daily life. She was responsible for developing and executing comprehensive outreach strategies to educate consumers, key stakeholders, and federal, state and local elected officials about the implications of national energy policy decisions on their communities and the important role the downstream sector plays in their economic and national security.

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