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BRENT BAKER
Brent Baker is a senior project manager, infrastructure economist and financial
analyst, with expertise in transportation-related project finance, toll revenue
forecasting, travel demand estimation, benefit-cost evaluation, and funding
analyses. His advisory and consulting management experience covers highway, ferry, rail, transit and utility projects, and includes value pricing/toll revenue forecasting, financial model development and application, funding studies, travel surveys, economic feasibility studies, tariff elasticity analyses and service planning. In Seattle, Mr. Baker led the development of legislatively-mandated finance plans for submittal to an expert review panel for two local projects representing an $8 billion investment. He
also led a toll feasibility study to assess the financial capacity of tolling
to fund a highway replacement project in San Francisco.
MICHAEL BENOUAICH
Michael Benouaich specializes in the financial and strategic analysis of capital projects and companies in the global infrastructure sector with emphasis on PPP transactions, project finance, and innovative public finance mechanisms. Trained in civil engineering and finance, he works closely with government and industry clients to develop, model, and review cash flow assumptions in support of greenfield and brownfield developments; provide debt capacity and funding analyses; and structure and implement innovative procurement strategies to mitigate and allocate risks between the public and private sectors. He has applied his financial expertise throughout the infrastructure development cycle including feasibility studies, due diligence, asset valuation, M&A, and tax litigation for the Internal Revenue Service. His experience extends across multiple sectors from road and rail transportation, to water, energy, and telecom. As project manager and lead advisor, Mr. Benouaich recently assisted the Ministry of Transportation of Québec structuring the first two toll highway concessions in Québec for Autoroute 25 and Autoroute 30. He also served as project manager providing due diligence review of revenue, operating and capital cost forecasts to support the valuation of several toll roads worldwide for a private equity fund.
SHEILA DEZARN
Sheila Dezarn brings eighteen years of experience in the public transit industry focused on federal and state government relations, high capacity transit planning, policy development and program management. She has extensive experience interacting with elected officials, functioning as a trusted advisor, providing policy advice and facilitating complex decision-making processes. Ms. Dezarn is an experienced leader, communicator and problem solver with proven ability to lead interdisciplinary teams tackling a range of complex and challenging organizational issues. Ms. Dezarn has been integrally involved in the development of four major regional high capacity transit plans in the Seattle metropolitan area, three of which have gone to the ballot. In the late 1990’s she established a government relations program for the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) in Seattle during its formative start-up years when the agency was transitioning from a small planning organization to a rapidly growing agency building light rail, commuter rail and bus rapid transit systems. In that role, she led a successful effort to secure the agency’s first $500 million Full Funding Grant Agreement (FFGA) for the Central Link light rail project. Prior to joining PB, Ms. Dezarn served as Sound Transit’s Chief Policy & Planning Officer where she was responsible for the agency’s long-range planning, fare policies and research and technology programs. In that capacity, she successfully co-managed the development of a $10 billion dollar light rail expansion program.
DON EMERSON
Don Emerson is a leader of PB's transit market --nationally recognized for his leadership in reinventing the alternatives analysis process, creating the current measures used to evaluate New Start projects, and developing portions of the technical guidance on New Starts Criteria while serving at the Federal Transit Administration. He is an expert in both the development of transportation planning policies and the preparation of implementation strategies on local, regional and national levels. Mr. Emerson is engaged as lead advisor to numerous transit agencies, state departments of transportation, and other government agencies on Federal funding programs. For the Jacksonville Transportation Authority, his recommendations of alternatives considered, financial planning, the Federal environmental process, right-of-way acquisition, and the locally preferred alternative, which led to the selection of bus rapid transit as the locally preferred alternative.
IRA HIRSCHMAN
Ira Hirschman is a senior economist and senior practitioner in the field of financial feasibility studies and benefit-cost analysis. He has managed or been the primary economic analyst for many transportation, urban development, and infrastructure development studies both in the U.S. and internationally. Dr. Hirschman is a recognized authority in the field of transportation planning, and has published widely in the field of transportation economics and public economics and finance. His expertise includes surface transportation, port feasibility studies, and freight studies. As project manager for the intermodal element of the 2005-2030 Oklahoma Statewide Intermodal Transportation Plan, he assisted ODOT in identifying transportation initiatives to enhance economic development within the state.
KURT KRAUSS
Kurt Krauss is experienced in infrastructure life cycle business planning that accommodates shifting needs from asset development and construction through the startup and maturation of operations. Kurt’s experience includes the development of plans of finance and subsequent controls as well as feasibility study analyses on major projects including toll roads, freeways, bridges, passenger rail transit, ports and transportation-related products for private clients. Mr. Krauss has been involved in large infrastructure financial plans for over $10 billion in infrastructure projects that incorporate project revenue bonds, Grant Anticipation Revenue (GARVEE), and Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) financing mechanisms. He had primary responsibility for successfully preparing the Initial Financial Plan and annual updates for the $2.4 billion Woodrow Wilson Bridge project (MD-VA) as well as the $2.4 billion Intercounty Connector project (MD).
STEVE LOCKWOOD
Steve Lockwood provides a unique combination of policy, finance, program and technology knowledge and over 35 years of applications experience. He has special expertise in transportation-related institutional development and serves as consultant to state governments and associations in their focus on emerging asset and systems management issues. Prior to joining PB, he served for three years as the senior Federal Highway Administration policy officer, two years as Director of the Transportation 2020 Coalition and over 15 years as a principal-in-charge or project manager for highway and transit planning and project development projects for a major international consulting firm. Mr. Lockwood was instrumental in the development of ISTEA -- the first new national transportation legislation in over 35 years. He is the senior PB member of the study team for the Future of the Interstate System being developed for AASHTO and a parallel effort for the I-95 Corridor Coalition. Currently, he is leading a Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP) project on the relationship between state DOT “institutional architecture” and the effectiveness of their systems operations and management activities.
ALAN LUBLINER
Alan Lubliner leads PB Consult’s business processes, organizational structure and strategic planning practice. His career as a management consultant and advisor to government agencies, project manager, and planner spans all surface transportation modes, as well as maritime, intermodal and intelligent transportation systems (ITS) projects. Prior to joining PB, Mr. Lubliner served as Assistant to the Mayor for Transportation and Public Utilities, chief of Transportation Planning, and director of grant-funded interagency multimodal programs for the city and county of San Francisco. For a $15-billion capital improvement program for Washington State DOT consisting of some 400 new highway and ferry projects, Alan served as principal consultant to assist the agency with the organization and business processes, program delivery gap analysis, and transition strategies.
WAYNE MCDANIEL
Wayne McDaniel is a highly experienced leader in the transportation industry. His past senior management positions in both the public and private sectors enable him to be intimately knowledgeable of clients’ perspectives and needs. He emphasizes an outcome-oriented approach in the development of business processes and applies best practice principles, tempered by decades of experience managing complex organizations. Mr. McDaniel joined PB after serving as deputy director general of the International Road Federation, a trade association dedicated to the promotion of highways. Among other activities, he currently manages an on-call services contract with the Maryland Transportation Authority. The diverse tasks in this contract have included a review of business processes within the Division of Engineering, advisory services for a major public-private partnership project, and an evaluation of the relative costs of manual and electronic toll collection.
JEFF MORALES
Jeff Morales joined PB after a strong public sector career focused on transportation policy and management. An expert in strategic planning and program implementation, he is nationally recognized for developing innovative policies and practices resulting in improved productivity and customer service across the federal, state and local agencies he has served. As Director of the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), he managed a $10 billion program and over 23,000 employees overseeing the largest state transportation system in the country. At the Chicago Transit Authority, he spearheaded ridership and capital investment improvements, and previously held key positions at the USDOT and in U.S. Senate. Internationally, Mr. Morales is known for providing capital investment policy guidance to Transport for London (TfL) in the development and implementation of its £10 billion ($18 billion) capital program and serving as program manager of TfL’s Major Project Business Unit Interchange Programme, guiding delivery of a range of projects under development. Currently, Mr. Morales is serving as project manager for the Congestion Pricing Operating Plan for Los Angeles County.
GLENN NESTEL
Glenn Nestel brings broad-based industry and consulting experience in strategic planning, post-merger integration, organizational development, change management, benchmarking studies, work process re-engineering, asset management and security/business continuity planning. His consulting assignments have included a large number public and investor-owned North American utilities as well as water resources professional, trade associations and research foundations. Recent assignments have focused on working with utilities to implement asset management programs plan to reduce water main breaks, system leakage and improve water quality. With wastewater utilities, the focus is on reduced blockages, collapses, overflows, and reduced inflow & infiltration. He has developed and implemented forecasting models and business processes to project capital expenditures for the replacement/rehabilitation of aging infrastructure and other water/waste utility assets at the lowest life cycle cost. For the New York City School Construction Authority, Mr. Nestel led the team that developed a major staff expansion plan to assist the agency in its continuous improvement program.
ERIC ROECKS
Eric Roecks serves PB clients in the western United States and has a distinguished career improving business operations, specializing in public sector infrastructure strategy and operation. He is consistently recognized by transit and transportation executives as a trusted advisor, having consulted to all functional areas within their agencies. His areas of expertise include: agency start-up, planning, and transition; facilitation and training; program review and organizational improvement, and; information technology and procurement. Eric is an accomplished author and a regular presenter at industry conferences, including ITS America. He has also served in the administrations of three statewide elected officials, including the Washington State Governor, as well as managing strategic consulting practices.
SCUDDER SMITH
Scudder Smith specializes in international trade and goods movement analysis and forecasting. He has performed multiple container forecasts for private clients to contribute to their port due diligence bids, refining the container forecasting procedures and databases. Mr. Smith was responsible for analysis and forecasting of the liner-container segment of the Panama Canal’s demand study in support of its multi-billion dollar expansion plans. This work included analysis of previous consultant’s studies and complete, ground-up, development of detailed models and forecasts with detail for 30 commodity groups. These models took into account US macroeconomic and regional economic growth, patterns of US personal consumption, trends in import propensities, rapid shifts and projections of country shares of US imports, trends in containerization, stowage factors, increasing size of container fleets, transit times and costs, patterns of commodity flows over the US intermodal system, and US coastal and port shares of trade. Mr. Smith currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Trade Data Users Group.
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