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.
MARK BRIGGS
With more than 35 years of experience in public
and private sector development and financial consulting, Mr. Briggs will
serve as a Public Finance and Investment Director, responsible for directing
the structure of public-private partnerships; securing federal, state
and local public finance resources; and integrating private investment
into PB client projects. As the president of a national community and
economic development consulting firm, he brought more than $1.5 billion
in public resources to programs and projects implemented across the country.
His extensive public and private financing experience is key to providing
a comprehensive approach to serve our clients' needs.
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.
WILLIAM GOLDSTEIN
William Goldstein brings 25 years of capital
management experience and leadership to PB and serves as director of
Capital Programs Advisor Services. Prior to joining PB, Mr. Goldstein
served as Deputy Executive Director at the Port Authority of New York
and New Jersey, where he managed and developed all aspects of the Authority's
multi-dimensional, $29.5-billion 10-year plan. He was also President
and CEO of the New York City School Construction Authority, Executive
Vice-President for Design and Construction at the National September
11 Memorial and Museum, and Director of Capital Management at the New
York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, responsible for oversight
of the Authority's multi-billion dollar capital investment program. He
brings a unique perspective on the many issues that confront the successful
implementation of major capital programs for our clients in all areas
of infrastructure investment.
JOSEPH GURKSIS
Joseph Gurskis is an experienced transportation
and logistics professional with extensive knowledge of the logistics
industry including operations, markets, supply chain requirements and
economics. He comes to PB with over 30 years of management and consulting
experience throughout Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Latin America, and
the Middle East. He have served as project manager for a studies to compare
intermodal transportation connectivity including a port study between
two Pacific Northwest ports and key North American economic centers,
and a feasibility study assessing development of an intermodal terminal
in North Dakota and service to the Pacific Northwest. For PB, Mr. Gurskis
will focus on the development and delivery of freight rail and intermodal
consulting services to both public and private sector clients. These
services will include development of state rail plans, regional freight
transportation plans, and infrastructure feasibility studies for private
clients.
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.
JENNIFER MITCHELL
Jennifer Mitchell is a transportation professional
specializing in finance, policy analysis, economics and project development.
With an ability to lead diverse teams on large-scale projects, Ms. Mitchell
most recently served as Deputy Project Director of Finance for the Metropolitan
Washington Airports Authority, leading the financial planning for the
$6 billion Dulles Corridor Metro Rail Project - one of the largest transit
infrastructure projects underway in the U.S. Her professional affiliations
include serving two years as president of the Washington, D.C. Chapter
of the Women's Transportation Seminar and as vice chair on the Intermodal
Freight Transport Committee of the Transportation Research Board.
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.
DAVID ROSE
David Rose is a leader in strategic planning
and innovation in surface transportation. Recognized as a national transportation
infrastructure management, policy and finance expert, Dr. Rose understands
what it takes to implement beneficial change. He has worked with transportation
leaders and policy makers across the country to improve their organizations'
performance. His work has resulted in visionary change based on analyzing
trends in technologies, regulatory environments, industry economics,
business models and markets for transportation products and services.
Dr. Rose is known for his change management expertise, excellent communication
skills and ability to bridge technical, management and policy perspectives.
His experience includes directing a strategic evaluation of Texas' transportation
finance system, which included an assessment of the future of the Texas
Department of Transportation, an $8.6 billion agency.
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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