NALF3 Speakers


Featured Speakers at the 3rd Annual North America Strategic Infrastructure Leadership Forum
Norman F. Anderson, President & CEO, CG/LA Infrastructure LLC, USA Jorge Acevedo Alarid, Executive Director, GTO Inland Port, Mexico Federico Lopez de Alba, Deputy Director of Projects, CFE Mexico The Honorable Terri. J. Austin, Indiana State Representative (IN-37) Donal Barron, Program Cost and Schedule Manager, DC Water, USA James Bass, CFO, TxDOT, USA Brendan Beach, P3 Committee Chair, State of Georgia Transportation Board, USA Terry Bennett, Senior Industry Program Manager, Civil Engineering & Planning, Autodesk, USA Vance Bennett, Director, Port Development and Strategy, CSX Transportation, USA Terry Bills, Transportation Industry Manager, ESRI, USA Amy Camacho, Secretary of Environment, State of Puebla, Mexico John Carson, CEO, Alterra Power Corporation, USA Eduardo Castineiras, Head of Corporate Finance, Managing Director, Spain Elias Cattan Cherem, Founder and Director, Taller13 Arquitectura Regenerativa, Mexico Michael DeLacey, Principal, Microdesk, USA Steve Demmings, Founding CEO of Thunder Bay Community Economic Development Commission (CEDC), Canada Marni Dicker, SVP of Business & Government Affairs and Corporate Counsel at SNC - Lavalin (O&M), Inc., Canada The Honorable Tyler Duvall, Principal, McKinsey and Company, USA The Honorable John Fernandez, Asst. Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development and Administrator, US Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration, USA Juan Francisco Gutierrez Fragoso, Secretary of Economic Development, State of Durango, Mexico Mark J. Gerenscer, Senior Vice President, Global Government Business, Booz Allen Hamilton, USA Don Graul, Global Executive Managing Director of Alternative Project Delivery, AECOM, USA Wes Guckert, President, The Traffic Group, USA Geronimo Gutierrez, Managing Director, NADBANK, Mexico Aaron Hegeman, Director, Public-Private Partnerships, BNSF Railway Company, USA Simon W. Herriott, Worldwide Managing Director, Safety Resources, DuPont Sustainable Solutions, USA Alan Hilburg, President & CEO, Hilburg Associates Alex Hinojosa, Deputy Managing Director, NADBANK, Mexico William J. Holstein, Author, The Next American Economy, USA David Holtz, Deputy Commissioner, Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) Pierce Homer, Transportation Director, Moffatt & Nichol, USA Michael Horodinceanu, President, MTA Capital Construction Company, USA The Honorable Timothy Kaine, Current US Senatorial Candidate and Former Governor, Commonwealth of Virginia, USA Janet Kavinoky, Vice President, Americans for Transportation Mobility, US Chamber of Commerce, Walter Kemmsies, Chief Economist, Moffatt & Nichol, USA Richard A. Khan, LEED AP, Director of Integrated Construction, Mortensen Construction, USA Tony Kinn, Director, Public-Private Partnerships, BNSF Railway Company, USA Glenn M. Kmecz, Capital Effectiveness & Contracting Global Practice Leader, DuPont Sustainable Solutions, USA Karen Kubick, Director, Wastewater Enterprise Capital Improvement, City and Country of San Francisco Public Utilities Commisio, USA Melissa Lafsky, Editor in Chief, Infrastructurist.com, USA Jorge Lopez, Director of North America, ProMexico, Mexico Michael Mandel, Chief Economic Strategist, Progressive Policy Institute, USA John Mason, Project Manager, Mining Services, Thunder Bay Community Economic Development Commission Regina McElroy, Director of the Office of Innovative Program Delivery (OIPD), Federal Highway Administration Senator Robert Menendez, State of New Jersey, USA James A. Moore PhD, AIA, AICP, LEED AP, Senior VP President, National Community Planning & Urban Design Principal HDR, USA Mike Murray, Business Opportunities & Evaluation, Alternative Energy Solutions, Dominion Resources, USA Terry Newendorp, Chairman & President, Taylor De-Jongh, USA Richard Ornitz, Founding Partner, InfraLinks & Senior Partner, Patton Bogg, USA Craig Parks, National Transportation Project Director, American Structurepoint Inc., USA Ramon Perez Sicard, Finance Planning Manager, Corporativo Bimbo, SA de CV, Mexico Philippe Poirier, Vice President, Project Financing, SNC-Lavalin Capital, Canada James Porter, Chief Engineer and Vice President of Engineering and Operations, DuPont (retired), USA Robert Puentes is Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program, The Brookings Institution Charlie Rate, President, SNC-Lavalin (O&M) Inc. John Sellers, Principal, Yavapai Regional Capital, Inc. Congressman Bill Shuster, District of Columbia Steve Sleigh, Principal, IAM - National Pension Fund Ed Soliday, Indiana House of Representatives & Chair of PPP Project Jim Stark is Deputy Commissioner of Planning at the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) Russ Stidolph, SVP and CFO of Tres Amigas Super Station Robert Suave, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Natural Resources & Wildlife, Government of Quebec Gary Sypolt, CEO, Dominion Energy Jay Tannon, Partner, Patton Boggs LLP Senator Mark Warner, Commonwealth of Virginia, USA Craig Wellen, Partner at Greentech Capital Advisor, USA Kevin Willis, Manager, Airport Compliance Division, Office of Airports, USA Judy Wilson, Partner, Blake, Cassels & Graydon, LLP, Canada Darrell Wilson, Asst. Vice President Government Relation, Norfolk Southern Ed Wytkind, President, Transportation Trades Dept., AFL-CIO, USA
	President & CEO, Norman F. Anderson focuses on infrastructure project creation aimed at increasing the level of investment in and the performance of existing infrastructure stocks in developed and developing countries alike. Mr. Anderson oversees all CG/LA’s Leadership Forum teams as well as leads the unit responsible for developing infrastructure projects globally. He recently published, "Positive Infrastructure in Latin America," for the World Economic Forum and authored a chapter on the Future of Infrastructure in the CSIS publication, “North America 2025”. Mr. Anderson has a graduate degree from Harvard University, and an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia. He is a former Peace Corps volunteer, who lived in Paraguay from 1979-1984. He is married to the former Ingrid Sckell – they have two children.

	Jorge Acevedo Alarid Currently serves as the Executive Director of GTO Inland Port. Acevedo holds a PhD. in Management from the Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro. He also holds a Masters in Global Marketing from, the ITESO and a Masters in Customs Law from La Salle University. Since 2005. He has previously served as Managing Director of the Guanajuato Inland Port. Currently, he is National President of the Instituto Mexicano de Logistica (IML), a member of Executive Council of the Asociacion Mexicana de Parques Industriales (AMPIP) as a representative of the State Government, and a member of the Institute Mexicano de Ejecutivos en Comercio Exterior (IMECE). He is founder and partner of the following companies: Servicios Integrados para la Comercializacion y Distribucion S.A. de C.V. (SIPCODI) and Services Operacionales Comericales Integrados de Leon, S.A. de C.V. (SOCIL). He has been a professor of Bachelors and Masters programs at Iberoamericana and La Salle Bajio universities. Mr. Acevedo has been a speaker in different international forums on issues such as infrastructure, logistics, inland ports and new business development. He is also columnist for several national newspapers, including CNN Expansion.

	Federico Lopez de Alba currently serves as the Deputy Director of Projects, CFE Mexico. Lopez de Alba holds a Bachelor in Chemical Engineering, a MSc. in Chemical Engineering, with a concentration in Environmental Engineering from Manhattan College, an MA in Economics concentrating in Development Planning from the University of the Americas, Mexico, and an Sc.D. in Management Sciences, from the National Politechnical Institute of Mexico. Alongside his position at CFE Mexico, he is the Assistant Manager for Emissions Evaluation and Control at Comisión Federal de Electricidad (Federal Electricity Commission). He also serves as a special advisor to the Subdirector of Project Development in areas such as climate change, clean energies development and environmental assessment. He has held several positions in the Mexican Government. Additionally, Lopez de Alba has been an advisor to the Senate in environment, energy and territorial planning. In the Department of Interior he served as part of the National Coordination on Civil Protection. He has represented Mexico’s Government in several international negotiations in areas such as the Environment, Climate Change, and Trans boundary Pollution. He has published multiple articles in specialized journals on Environmental Management.

	James Bass is the Chief Financial Officer and directs the Finance Division of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). As a member of Administration, he is responsible for the management and control of the Finance Division, which now includes programming and scheduling of all transportation projects and management of activities associated with project delivery, following the Department's reorganization in November 2007. Bass began his TxDOT career in 1985 working summers in the Fort Worth District, where he maintained records and audited field measurements, among other duties. While earning his bachelor's degree in accounting at the University of Texas at Austin, he also worked part time as an engineering aide in the Austin District's South Travis/Hays County Area Office. There he audited field measurements and processed monthly payments to highway contractors. After graduation in 1991, Bass began full time as an accounting clerk in the Finance Division's Revenue Accounting Section in 1992, and a year later was promoted to budget analyst in the Budget and Forecasting Section.

	Currently, Brandon Beach is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce, leading the fourth largest chamber in the metro area. Beach has played an integral role in helping North Fulton grow and prosper in his 13-plus years in Atlanta. During his tenure with the Chamber of Commerce membership of top level executives and chief executive officers (Chairman’s Circle) has increased 60 percent; while, commerce retention grew from 67 to 82 percent annually. Beach also partnered with various organizations in order to increase economic development. The new Verizon Wireless Amphitheater at Encore Park that opened in the heart of Alpharetta this past May is the result of such partnerships. Beach has also been an effective regional and state-wide leader. He was appointed by Governor Sonny Perdue in 2004 to the board of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA). In 2008, he was selected to chair one of GRTA’s most important committees--The Land Development Committee (formerly the Development of Regional Impact Committee). In this role, Beach leads a review of every significant development brought before the 16-county area that GRTA serves.

	Terry Bennett, is responsible for setting the company’s future vision and strategy for technology that serves the planning, surveying and civil engineering industries. Furthermore, he is cultivating and sustaining the firm’s relationships with strategic industry leaders and associations. Bennett has been a practicing professional for the past 28 years, he has presented at numerous industry conferences worldwide, and he has published many articles in industry trade magazines on the impact of technology and sustainable approaches to the Infrastructure and geospatial industries. He holds licenses across states in both Land Surveying and Natural Resource Forest Management. He is a Chartered Land Surveyor with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and is a LEED Accredited Sustainable Design Professional. Bennett currently serves as a Governing Assembly Member of ASCE’s PERSI (Practice, Education and Research for Sustainable Infrastructure) initiative and is a member of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design’s Sustainable Infrastructure Advisory Board. He is a founding editorial board member of Rebuilding America’s Infrastructure Magazine and is a council member on the Urban Land Institute’s Public Development and Infrastructure Council.

	Vance Bennett has more than 27 years of experience in the transportation industry; this includes 11 years in the Steamship industry with U.S. Lines and Mitsui OSK where he held managerial positions in Sales and Pricing and over 16 years in the Rail industry with CSX Transportation. During his tenure at CSX he has held positions as Sales Manager, Director of Domestic and International Pricing and Director of Marketing before assuming the role of Director of Port Development. Vance also holds a seat on the Board of Directors for Kaleidoscope Healthcare in New Jersey. Vance is a native of New Jersey where obtained a B.A. Degree in Mathematics and an Associate’s Degree in Data Processing from St. Peter’s College.

	Terry Bills is the global transportation industry manager at ESRI. He has served as a Principal Planner with a regional transportation planning agency, and as President of a transportation-related GIS consulting services company. He has more than 20 years of experience in transportation planning and policy, information technology and GIS.

	For nearly 30 years, Amy Camacho has served as Director General of Africam Safari, a wildlife park and conservation center that is considered one of the most respected zoological institutions in the world. Amongst her many accolades, she has received the Award for Conservation in Mexico from SEMARNAT. In 1997, she founded the Mexican Network of Specialists in Reproduction for Conservation of the International Union for Nature Conservation in order to make assessments and plans for conservation and recovery of Mexican threatened species. Since then, she has facilitated the development of dozens of plans of action for the conservation not only in Mexico, but in countries such as Malaysia, Korea, Colombia, USA, Canada, Argentina, Panama and Chile. She is a member of the National Technical Advisory Council for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Wildlife and is considered by the business magazine "Expansion" as one of the ten most influential women in Mexico.

	John Carson is a highly experienced renewable energy business leader with a core expertise in structuring and leading financial transactions. His financing experience over the last ten years includes senior positions held with GE Energy Financial Services, Terra-Gen Power and Noble Environmental Power, and he has closed well over US$2 billion in transactions, primarily in the renewable energy space, including geothermal, wind and hydro transactions. His education includes a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Science from Purdue University.

	Eduardo Castineiras is a Managing Director of the Capital Markets Unit and Head of Corporate Finance, responsible for project finance, leveraged finance and Syndicated Loans at BANKIA. BANKIA was established in December 2010 as the result of the merger of seven Spanish saving banks (Caja Madrid being the largest one). BANKIA is a leading financial group in Spain with a significant presence in international markets in the infrastructure and energy markets. Mr. Castineiras has more than thirty years of extensive experience in the banking industry. Previously, he served in the private banking arm of BANKIA, which has holdings in different Spanish and multinational companies. Mr. Castineiras holds a law degree, a Master degree in Business Administration from IESE and a Master degree in Financial Management from the UCM.

	Elias Cattan Cherem is the Founder and Director of Taller13 Arquitectura Regenerativa and a professor at Universidad Iberoamericana. His focus is in design and environmental theory. He is dedicated to understanding living systems, such as ecosystems and cities, designing at different scales, ranging from furniture and interiors to buildings and urban planning. His vision is to integrate the patterns of community life and the systems within which they develop, in order to put forth regenerative processes. He is an avid reader and explorer of knowledge that has successfully combined his passions: nature, architecture, technology and education, in the form of development and personal growth. He studied architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico, and continued his studies at Schumacher College covering courses on deep ecology, permaculture, biomimicry and systems theory.

	Mike DeLacey brings more than 25 years of engineering experience to his role as principal at Microdesk. For the last 18 years, Mike has been providing Civil Engineering, Architectural and GIS solutions to companies across the country. In his function at Microdesk, Mike oversees technology management services for some of the largest AEC and GIS projects in the country, including the rebuilding of New York City’s World Trade Center and improving security at some of our nation’s busiest ports and airports. Mike founded Microdesk with Robin Adams in 1994. Their goal in creating the company was to assist AEC and GIS firms in overcoming the challenges they face when implementing and utilizing design and geospatial technology. Over the last 17 years, Mike has helped grow the company to include 12 offices around the nation.

	Steve Demmings is Founding CEO of Thunder Bay Community Economic Development Commission (CEDC) and assumed this role in March 2007 in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He created the Community Economic Development Commission's current Strategic Plan and its targeted business focus to create jobs and investment and the health sciences, knowledge, energy, value-added forestry and the burgeoning mining sector. Prior to assuming his responsibilities in Thunder Bay, he was President of Site Selection Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba a company he founded to provide site selection services to technology companies seeking Canadian expansion.

	Marni Dicker is Senior Vice President, Business & Government Affairs and Corporate Counsel for SNC- Lavalin O&M Inc. Marni participates in the customization of services in large outsourcings to address the unique needs and priorities of each Client for O&M. As both a legal practitioner and a business person, Marni structures deals which fall well within legal boundaries while being innovative and Client centered. Marni is responsible for structuring all Public Private Partnership proposals, including the contractual arrangements amongst concession partners. Additionally, Marni is responsible for corporate Government relations, and is the Chief Corporate Security Officer. Marni leads SNC-Lavalin Security Consulting which company, provides all necessary security clearances for our employees and contractors, and it conducts Threat and Risk assessments of our Clients Assets. Marni has an Honors business degree (B.A. Com), a Bachelor of Civil Laws (B.C.L) and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB).

	Tyler Duvall recently joined McKinsey as a Senior Advisor in the firm’s Washington DC office. In his time with McKinsey, Tyler has helped develop the Travel, Infrastructure and Logistics practice and has assisted with on-going strategy work in Panama and the State of Georgia. Prior to joining McKinsey as a Senior Advisor, Tyler ran the policy office at the US Department of Transportation as both the Acting Under Secretary for Policy and Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy at the US Department of Transportation.

	As the Administrator of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA), John Fernandez is charged with leading the federal economic development agenda by promoting innovation and competitiveness, preparing American regions for growth and success in the global economy. With over 13 years of executive experience, Fernandez has earned a reputation as a strategic thinker, creative problem solver and effective manager. Prior to his appointment, Fernandez led the new development and acquisition team at First Capital Group, an Indiana-based real estate investment firm. Fernandez played a critical role in expanding the firm’s regional and national investment footprint. A first generation American, Fernandez received a Doctor of Law (J.D.) from Indiana University. He also earned a Master of Public Affairs (M.P.A.) and Bachelor of Science (B.S.) from Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

	Juan Francisco Gutierrez Fragoso is Secretary of Economic Development for the State of Durango. As the Minister of Economic Development in the State of Durango he is charged with developing the competitive advantages of the state and generate the needed growth and wealth for Durangoans. He holds a degree of Management in International Business and a Masters of Finance Administration from the University of Juarez. Durango is the 4th largest State in México and is part of the dynamic Northern region. This region supplies one quarter of the skilled labor force, and one quarter of the GDP of the Nation. Found in Durango are aggressive investment packages, abundant natural resources and growth with innovation programs. Durango ranks among the largest producers of lumber-based products, mining, dairy and metal, in the country, and boasts increasingly prominent clusters of automotive parts, software development, tourism and electronics. These new clusters that the Government promotes will allow the State to increase its competitiveness. To achieve these goals the Government is executing ambitious changes and additions to include the largest road construction in the Nation, building avenues that will connect both oceans and will also serve the NAFTA market, placing Durango in the most strategic place in México.

	Mark Gerencser, a Booz Allen Hamilton Executive Vice President, advises government, private, and non-profit sectors on how to create and sustain megacommunities to solve complex problems in infrastructure development, enhancement and renewal. He has significant expertise and depth across the energy, environment, and transportation sectors. His specialties are cyber security and Megacommunities. Gerencser is the co-author of “Megacommunities: How Leaders of Government, Business and Non-Profits Can Tackle Today’s Global Challenges Together.”

	Don Graul is the Global Executive Managing Director of Alternative Project Delivery at AECOM. With over 30 years of experience in engineering and construction on some of the United States' highest profile projects, Graul has comprehensive experience in organizational management, operations, and business development. With strong, industry-wide relationships with departments of transportation, concessionaires and contractors, he has helped contribute to a record of successes on multi-billion-dollar design-build and public-private ventures. Prior to AECOM, Graul served as senior vice president and senior executive, alternative project delivery, for Parsons Corporation, where he led the global coordination and development of alternative project delivery across all of its transportation divisions. Before joining Parsons, he also served as vice president, director of design-build/public-private ventures, at Modern Continental Corporation and as deputy director, surface transportation, at URS Corporation.

	Wes Guckert, is a certified Professional Transportation Planner (PTP), a Fellow with the Institute of Transportation Engineers, a member of the American Planning Association, and provides consultation to the Urban Land Institute’s Public Development and Infrastructure Council. Mr. Guckert is an expert in traffic engineering and transportation planning. He is a technical adviser in transit planning, traffic impact analysis, traffic signal design, traffic circulation and access studies, he has played a major role in urban and suburban area projects in the mid-Atlantic and has consulted on projects throughout the United States and internationally. Mr. Guckert is the President of The Traffic Group, Inc., a traffic engineering and transportation planning specialty firm he founded in 1985, after his five years working in the Maryland State Highway Administration’s Traffic Division.

	As the Managing Director of NadBank, Geronimo Gutierrez has extensive professional experience and expertise in US- Mexican relations and border affairs, because of his service as the Under Secretary for North America at the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Relations from 2003 to 2006. Additionally, he was Under Secretary for Latin America and the Caribbean; more recently, served as Under Secretary of Government in the Mexican Ministry of Government. In the area of finance, he was the Head of Advisory Staff in the Mexican Ministry of Finance and Public Credit between 1992 and 1994 and an advisory for the Mexican development bank, Banco de Obras y Servicios Publicos (BANOBRAS). Mr. Gutiérrez received his undergraduate degree in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City and holds a Master’s in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

	Aaron Hegeman has led BNSF’s Public Private Partnerships (PPP) team since May 2010, where he oversees BNSF’s cooperative efforts with local, state and federal agencies to develop rail infrastructure projects that address the needs of the public. Prior to leading the group, Aaron was a member of the PPP team with a territory focused on the Pacific Northwest and Midwest. Aaron joined BNSF Railway in May 1998 as a management trainee. He was promoted through positions in Marketing and Finance before joining the PPP team in October 2006.

	Simon Herriott leads DuPont Sustainable Solutions’ Safety Resources practice, an area focusing on employee, contractor and process safety. He joined DuPont in 2004 and brings to his position extensive experience in sales and marketing, business leadership, and strategy development in the global chemical industry. Simon has worked with senior leaders at companies in India, China, Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, Japan and Thailand, assisting them with their transformational safety journeys. He is also a member of the advisory board for the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at the Fox School of Management at Temple University, Philadelphia.

	Alan Hilburg, president and CEO of Hilburg Associates, is one of the world’s leading senior advisors to law firms, corporate general counsels and boards of directors for his expertise in crisis mitigation, litigation communications and related institutional and personal brand issues. He has been recognized by the New York Times as the “Red Adair of corporate crisis management," and in 1984, pioneered litigation communications having experience in more than 106 trials. He has been one of the most sought after strategic counselors in the most complex, high-risk civil and criminal legal contacts had helped legal teams achieve success in what is often perceived as impossible situations.

	With more than 29 years of senior management experience, Alex Hinojosa has extensive professional expertise in investment banking, the utilities industry and municipal project financing. From 1984 to 2004 he served in a financial managerial role at the San Antonio Way pueter System, where is responsibilities included directing and overseeing the utility’s financing-- including long-term financial planning, accounting, project finance, and debt management--among other functions. His work in developing innovative financing instruments and rate structures has received industry-wide recognition. Mr. Hinojosa holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio and a Masters in Business administration from the University of Texas San Antonio. He has been a Certified Public Accountant since 1983, and has also held securities licenses.

	William J. Holstein is the Author of The Next American Economy. An award-winning editor, author and journalist, Bill has spent 30 years specializing in global business issues that affect chief executive officers and boards of directors as well as individual Americans. Areas of interest include innovation, organizational transformation, competitiveness and governance. His books have been published in Japanese, Chinese, Portugese and Danish.

	David Holtz is the Deputy Commissioner for Design, Project Management and Technical Support. Over the past quarter century, Holtz has worked his way up through the ranks of the military and civil engineering communities. He joined INDOT's Design Division in 1986 after serving as a Bridge Inspector for the Elkhart County Highway Department. Holtz held numerous positions within INDOT before serving as Section Manager and Division Chief during the past decade. Prior to assuming the role of Deputy Commissioner, Holtz served as Director of INDOT's Integrated Transportation Planning Division. He was responsible for all aspects of INDOT's long-range planning, system modeling, Metropolitan Planning Organization coordination, and programming functions. Meanwhile, Holtz continued to serve his country in the U.S. Army Reserve, being named Lieutenant Colonel in 2004. He served one tour of active duty in late 2006 and 2007 as a Liaison Officer to the Iraqi government during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Holtz is a licensed professional engineer and a graduate of Elkhart Memorial High School and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He and his wife live in Indianapolis and have three children.

	Pierce Homer is Transportation Director at Moffatt & Nichol. Prior to joining Moffatt & Nichol, Mr. Homer was the longest-serving Secretary of Transportation for the Commonwealth of Virginia and led a $4.5 billion annual program spanning all modes of transportation and employing more than 10,500 employees. As Secretary, Mr. Homer led the development of nationally recognized programs in public-private partnerships; land use and transportation integration; freight and passenger rail enhancements; organizational accountability; and fiscal and financial transparency. Major achievements during his tenure include the planning, funding and construction of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail extension, the Capital Beltway HOT lanes, the Heartland Corridor freight rail project, several private and public port expansion projects, the first state-funded intercity passenger rail service, the Coalfields Expressway, the Rt. 28 Corridor Grade Separation Program, and the Pinner’s Point interchange project serving the Port of Virginia and surrounding communities. Mr. Homer also oversaw the on-time, on-budget completion of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and the Springfield interchange construction projects. Prior to his appointment as Secretary of Transportation, Mr. Homer served as Deputy Secretary of Transportation. From 1987 to 2002, he worked for Prince William County, Virginia, rising to the position of Deputy County Executive. He previously had worked for the City of Galveston, Texas and as a private consultant.

	Michael Horodniceanu is President of MTA Capital Construction Company. Dr. Horodniceanu was the CEO of the Urbitran Group between 1980 and 1986, and again from 1990. Urbitran, which was acquired by DMJM Harris/ AECOM, was a New York City-based engineering firm. Under his leadership, the company extended its reach beyond its core expertise of transportation planning into architectural, engineering, planning and construction management services; it grew from a firm employing 70 people with revenues of $6.5 million in 1990 into a 200-person multidisciplinary organization with annual revenues exceeding $36 million. Between 1986 and 1990, Dr. Horodniceanu served as Traffic Commissioner for the City of New York, overseeing a $4 billion capital construction program and managing the largest parking system in the United States with more than 75,000 spaces. Dr. Horodniceanu earned a Ph.D. in Transportation Planning & Engineering from Polytechnic University of New York, a Master's in Engineering Management from Columbia University and a Bachelor's in Civil Engineering from the Israel Institute of Technology. He serves on the boards of the Friends of the New York Transit Museum, Polytechnic Institute of New York's Department of Civil Engineering, and the Community Service Society of New York.

	Tim Kaine moved to Richmond in 1984 and served as City Councilman and Mayor before being elected Lt. Governor in 2001. Under his leadership as Governor from 2006-2010, Virginia was named Best Managed State, Best State for Business four years in a row, and Best State in which to Raise a Child. He served as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009-2011. Tim is married to Anne Holton and they have three children.

	Janet Kavinoky is Vice President for American for Transportation Mobility (ATM) Coalition at the US Chamber of Commerce, a nationwide effort by business, labor, transportation organizations, and concerned citizens to advocate for improved and increased federal investment in the nation’s aging and overburdened transportation system. Kavinoky is a nationally recognized expert in transportation policy, funding, and finance and leads the U.S. Chamber’s efforts related to maintaining, modernizing, and expanding transportation and infrastructure.

	Dr. Walter Kemmsies is Moffatt & Nichol’s chief economist, where he pioneered development of container volume forecasts by trade lane, utilizing a blend of regional economic data with the identified market reach of U.S. ports. Since joining Moffatt & Nichol, Dr. Kemmsies has worked on numerous strategic business development plans for North, Central and South American ports and has worked with a number of confidential clients on high-profile transactions and terminal- operator expansion decisions. Dr. Kemmsies is a seasoned economist with a global perspective, having lived in Europe and Latin America and traveled extensively throughout Asia. Prior to joining Moffatt & Nichol, Dr. Kemmsies was the European strategist at JP Morgan, London, which he joined after heading Global Industry Strategy for UBS, where he covered 72 industries on a worldwide basis. He is also an external director on the board of an investment fund, a NYSE-registered financial analyst and a member of the National Association of Business Economists. Dr. Kemmsies frequently speaks at major industry conferences in the US and abroad, is a regular columnist for American Shipper, has published academic research and participates in the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Professional Forecasters.

	Ricardo Khan has more than 14 years of working experience in the architectural and construction industries. Ricardo obtained a Bachelor’s of Architecture from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1996 proceeded by working in the architectural profession for five years. Ricardo’s current focus as the Director of Integrated Construction at Mortenson is managing the overall Integrated Delivery Advancement Team (IDAT) and provides companywide leadership of VDC integration and process improvement into our ever evolving construction practice.

	Tony Kinn was appointed director of the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Office of Transportation Public-Private Partnerships on July 5, 2011. He is responsible for developing and implementing a statewide program for transportation project delivery via the Virginia Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995. Kinn most recently served as assistant vice president and director of corporate relations for the University of Virginia’s University Engineering Foundation. He has spent most of his career in the corporate world in new business development. Kinn was principal owner in the James A. Weaver Company, which was the third largest food brokerage firm in the U.S. His company also designed Market Metrics, a store-specific marketing software program, which became the foundation for what today is Spectra Systems. He also was executive vice president of the Federated Group, a multi-billion dollar organization based in Chicago. At the Federated Group, Kinn was responsible for the management of new business development for all divisions west of the Mississippi River. Kinn has also served as director of the Commonwealth's Department of Economic Development’s International Division, where his main responsibility was to draw firms to the Commonwealth from the Pacific Rim and Europe.

	Glenn Kmecz has over 35 years of experience within DuPont and has held various leadership positions in the areas of operations, maintenance and engineering. As Global Practice Leader, he is responsible for growing the Capital Asset Effectiveness and Contracting Practices within DuPont Sustainable Solutions. Prior to this role, he was Global Business Engineering Manager for two business units, Polyester Resins & Intermediates and Titanium Technologies, and was responsible for developing the five year capital plan that was required to meet and exceed growth needs. In addition, he has provided direction for a number of major capital projects globally, including several involving high hazard operations, which achieved significant safety milestones throughout the projects.

	Currently, Karen Kubick oversees the development of the multi-billion dollar Sewer System Improvement Program (SSIP) for the SFPUC’s Wastewater Enterprise, which addresses the aging infrastructure, operating reliability, and sustainability of San Francisco’s sewer system. Ms. Kubick received her und!ergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from San Francisco State University, and is also a registered Professional Mechanical Engineer in the state of California. Ms. Kubick has over 25 years of experience working in operations, program management, and engineering capacities in the Wastewater, Power, and Water utilities for the City and County of San Francisco. She began her career as a project engineer with the San Francisco Department of Public Works and promptly was promoted to senior project manager where she was responsible for the development of the Recycled Water Master Plan. She also project managed the ESP 2 Bond of the Zoological Gardens Infrastructure Replacement.

	Melissa Lafsky is the editor-in-chief of Infrastructurist.com, a micro-news site covering all aspects of transportation and infrastructure in the U.S. and abroad. A journalist, editorial strategist, and longtime blogger, she served as an associate editor and columnist for The Huffington Post, and then as editor of the New York Times's Freakonomics blog. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Post, Wired, Discover Magazine, and other venues. She has appeared as a regular transit/infrastructure commentator on Fox Business, and has also been featured on CNN, CNBC, NPR, and Fox News Radio.

	Jorge Lopez is the North America Regional Officer of ProMexico (Trade and Investment/NAFTA Region). He has also served as Chief Investment & International Officer for ProMexico (International Investment Unit), and Staff Consultant at the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE). He holds a BS degree in Actuarial Science from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. He was Founding Partner and CEO of Vitalis (Actuarial and Pension Fund) and HIL Consultores (Statistical and Market Research). Formerly, he was a Member of YEO (Young Entrepreneur Organization), Board Member in Anforama and Comparte (NGO), and Team Founder of Fondo de Estrategia Social (NGO). Mr. López has written an array of columns for specialized magazines, and newspapers regarding statistics, pension funds and business development. He has been recognized by the business magazine Expansión (México), taught 11 semesters of Applied Statistics, Marketing Research Statistics, Probability and Statistics for Business, Entrepreneurship, Statistical Sampling Methods at Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, and Querataro Technical University (CUDEC) at Masters Degree level.

	Michael Mandel is the chief economic strategist at the Progressive Policy Institute and the founder of Visible Economy LLC, a New York-based news and educa- tion company. He is also president of South Mountain Economics, a consulting company and a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School’s Mack Center for Technological Innovation. Prior to joining PPI, Mandel was the chief economist at BusinessWeek, where he helped direct the magazine’s coverage of the domestic and global economies. At BusinessWeek, he received multiple awards for his work, including being honored as one of the 100 top U.S. busi- ness journalists of the 20th century for his coverage of the New Economy. Mandel has written several books, including The Coming Internet Depression, published in September 2000, and Rational Exuberance: Silencing the Enemies of Growth and Why the Future Is Better than You Think, published in 2004. Mandel received a doctorate in economics from Harvard University.

	John Mason has 36 years of service with the Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry, and has published numerous geological reports. He is well known for his in-depth knowledge and skills in the Ontario and Canadian exploration and mining sector and for his exceptional ability to market Ontario’s vast mineral potential. Mr. Mason is a Registered Professional Geoscientist with an Honors Bachelor of Science in Geology degree from Lakehead University.

	Regina McElroy is Director of the Office of Innovative Program Delivery (OIPD), Federal Highway Administration. Ms. McElroy serves as the Director of the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA’s) Office of Transportation Operations. In this position, she leads a multi-faceted National program designed to alleviate non-recurring highway congestion and improve the day- to-day operations of our Nation’s highways. Included in her portfolio are the following programs: Road Weather Management, Emergency Transportation Operations, Traffic Incident Management, Planned Special Events, Work Zone Safety and Mobility, FHWA Emergency Preparedness and Response, and the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices programs. Prior to her current position, Ms. McElroy was a team leader in FHWA’s Office of Asset Management. She was responsible for advancing tools and techniques to facilitate the development of investment strategies by transportation agencies. Before joining the Office of Asset Management, Ms. McElroy led development of several multimodal Congressional reports, to include the Status of the Nation’s Surface Transportation System: Conditions and Performance Report and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Comprehensive Truck Size and Weight Study. Ms.McElroy has been with FHWA since 1987 and has also worked for the American Trucking Associations, Inc. and the Department of Defense.

	Senator Robert Menendez, US Senator, New Jersey's story is a quintessential American story. He grew up the son of immigrants in a tenement building in Union City and has risen to become one of 100 United States Senators. He has earned the reputation of a fighter for New Jersey families who puts their economic security and hometown security ahead of powerful special interests. A product of New Jersey's public schools and a graduate of the state's universities, Bob learned early on the importance of standing up for what's right, no matter how powerful the opposition. He first entered public service as a 19-year-old college student when he witnessed shortcomings in the public education system and launched a successful petition drive to reform his local school board. He stood up to corruption in Union City as a witness against the political machine in a Federal trial. He has served as a school board member, a mayor and a state legislator. Since 1993, he has been standing up for New Jersey families in Washington, where he rose to become the third-highest ranking Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives. After being elected to the U.S. Senate, Bob was soon appointed to be a member of the Senate leadership during his first term, serving as the Chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee where he successfully retained Democrats’ majority in the U.S. Senate. Read More about Robert Menendez.

	Dr. James Moore has over 20 years of experience in all aspects of Urban Redevelopment, Urban Design, and Community Planning. He joined HDR in 2000, as the company’s National Community Design Principal, dividing his time among national projects, marketing new proposals, and helping develop initiatives in the areas of Real Estate Consulting, Transit-Oriented Development, and Sustainable Community Design. Since 2004, he has been the National Director of HDR’s Community Planning & Urban Design business practice, overseeing 85 staff in a dozen offices. Dr. Moore has been the project principal on a number of notable HDR projects including the Destination Midtown Redevelopment Master Plan and the North Downtown (NoDo) Redevelopment Master Plan, both in Omaha NE, “Pinellas by Design,” a unified economic development and physical redevelopment strategy for all of Pinellas County FL, the Albuquerque NM Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Conceptual De- sign, and the 30th Street Sector Redevelopment Plan in Boise ID. His areas of expertise include redevelopment planning and urban design, and leading multi-stakeholder participatory events including charrettes and visioning exercises. Most of his projects integrate concerns for physical and economic redevelopment and involve intense client and community outreach and participation. Projects range in scale from tens of acres (Downtown Dunedin FL) to several hundred square miles (Pinellas by Design).

	Mark Murray is a former attorney and CPA, who is responsible for managing Dominion’s cleantech fund, as well as the commercialization of “smart grid” technologies identified or developed by Dominion. Previously, Mark provided legal advice and engaged in business development for Dominion’s gas transportation, storage and LNG business units. He also was responsible for the divestiture of Dominion’s international assets and its Dominion Capital assets, totaling $3.0 billion. Before joining Dominion, Mark was employed by the national law firm, Troutman Sanders and the accounting firm Arthur Andersen.

	Terry Newendorp is the founder of Taylor-DeJongh. He has more than 35 years of experience in international and cross-border capital investments, project and structured financing, corporate financing and private placements of capital. He has negotiated and closed deals in 75 countries, aggregating more than $70 billion, primarily in the energy, oil & gas, petrochemicals, telecommunications, metals & mining and infrastructure sectors. In addition to extensive experience organizing and structuring commercial bank loans globally, he has strong experience with government and multilateral financing institutions, including the export credit agencies of most of the developed world. He has extensive experience assisting clients in managing the project development process and in closing transactions. Amongst Mr. Newendorp’s awards are: “Independent Energy 25-year All-Star Award” for energy finance, Infrastructure Journal’s “Oil and Gas Advisor of the Year, 2003,” Leader of “Superstar Team, Asia/Middle East Oil and Gas,” Infrastructure Journal’s “Latin America Advisor of the Year, 2001.” He was the overall leader for project finance teams that have won 13 “Deal of the Year” awards since 1999. He is on the Board of Directors of several energy companies, and since 2006, he has advised the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe on energy security issues.

	Richard Ornitz chairs the Firm's infrastructure practice, which seeks to be a bridge between government, business and finance in rebuilding much needed global assets. Mr. Ornitz concentrates his practice on international, privatization, private equity and cross-border finance matters. Mr. Ornitz is a recognized market leader in infrastructure in the United States and globally in emerging markets. Mr. Ornitz represents private companies, funds, financial institutions and individual investors in a wide range of private equity investments. He is a member of Tiger 21, a private equity peer group with investable assets of more than $7.5 billion. He serves on various community boards, has taught a special finance course at MIT/Sloan and is currently assisting a group of universities to obtain funding for renewable energy research.

	Craig Parks PE, is National Transportation Project Director of American Structurepoint Inc. Craig has nearly 13 years of experience in the transportation industry and currently works for American Structurepoint Inc. as a Project Development Director in the Road Department, managing a team of approximately 8 staff members and responsible for managing the development of numerous transportation and other municipal projects. Prior to coming to American Structurepoint, Craig worked as the Assistant City Engineer for the City of Carmel and as a Highway Engineer for the Indiana Department of Transportation. Since coming to American Structurepoint, Craig has managed numerous transportation projects varying in size and complexity, and has become American Structurepoint’s roundabout specialist. He has been involved in the geometric design of dozens of roundabouts throughout the state of Indiana and Ohio.

	Ramon Perez Sicard is a Financial Planning Manager in charge of Project Evaluation for Grupo Bimbo, the largest bakery company in the world. Previously, he has worked in the metal manufacturing industry with Infra and Schlumberger. He also has experience in new business development for GB operations. One of his current projects at Grupo Bimbo has him overseeing the building of the largest wind farm run by the food industry worldwide. It is expected that this clean energy project will begin operations within the next 12 months.

	Philippe Poirier started is career as a process engineer and environmental manager for different Canadian mining companies. In 1999, Mr. Poirier was hired by SNC-Lavalin as a project manager in the Mining and Metallurgy division. After completing his M.B.A. in finance, Mr. Poirier joined SNC-Lavalin Capital in 2006. Since then, has worked on numerous innovative financing transactions and has been involved in the development of project financing structures and financial models of over twelve Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects in Canada.

	Jim Porter has 42+ years of experience within DuPont. His roles have included a wide range of technical, supervisory, managerial and leadership assignments. Prior to his retirement, he was Chief Engineer and Vice President of Engineering and Operations where he was responsible for capital expenditures in excess of $2.0 billion/year and operating cost impacts greater than $2.5 billion/year. During his leadership assignments, Jim developed and led implementation for “front-end-loading” across the corporation, including the capital deployment best practices used today on all DuPont projects. Currently, he is consulting for DuPont Sustainable Solutions, one of 13 DuPont business units. He also represents the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment and the Competitiveness National Innovation Initiative Strategy Council. Jim has published several articles and delivered dozens of presentations at conferences and workshops across the globe.

	Robert Puentes is a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program where he also directs the Program's Metropolitan Infrastructure Initiative. The Initiative was established to address the pressing transportation and infrastructure challenges facing cities and suburbs in the United States and abroad. Robert's work focuses on the broad array of policies and issues related to metropolitan growth and development. He is an expert on transportation and infrastructure, urban planning, growth management, suburban issues and housing. Prior to joining Brookings, Robert was the director of infrastructure programs at the Intelligent Transportation Society of America. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Virginia where he served on the Alumni Advisory Board, and is an affiliated professor with Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute. He is a frequent speaker to a variety of groups, a regular contributor in newspapers and other media, and has testified before Congressional committees.

	As the President of SNC-Lavalin O&M, Charles Rate is responsible for leading Canada's largest Operations and Maintenance services provider. His experience encompasses a wide variety of design, construction, operations and maintenance activities in mission critical environments, facilities and leadership roles with SNC-Lavalin over the past 30 years. He has been Project Manager and Director of Engineering and Construction on major crown projects in the defence and telecommunications sectors and has worked extensively on infrastructure development projects in Canada, Asia and Europe. A Professional Engineer with an honours degree in Civil Engineering, he plays a leading role in managing international projects and business development. Charles is committed to promoting SNC-Lavalin O&M's culture of continuous improvement and collaboration, and in providing innovative solutions to our clients, helping them to succeed in the delivery of their core business.

	John Sellers is Principal at Yavapai Regional Capital, Inc. John’s banking career includes over 30 years in International Energy, Infrastructure and Project Finance with JP Morgan in London, Chase Manhattan in Australia and New York and 3 years with Salomon Brothers in Sales and Trading in New York. He was Global Head of Project Finance for Paribas [now BNP Paribas] in Paris. Overall he has been responsible for over $30 billion of successful project financings in the energy and infrastructure sectors in over 30 countries. In 2003 he served as advisor to the Chairman of the California Power Authority. Six years of community service in California and Arizona since then included being Chairman of MHAAA [a proposed water PPP], member of the Weimar MAC in California and a recipient of the Placer County Firefighters Community Service award in 2006. He has an Honors Degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Loughborough University, England and a Diploma in Business Administration from the Manchester Business School, England.

	Throughout his ten year career in the House, Congressman Bill Shuster has proven himself to be a leader on local and national issues, and an outspoken advocate for the people of the 9th Congressional District in Washington, DC. Congressman Shuster is committed to bringing greater opportunity and a better standard of living to the people of the 9th district through his focus on economic development and transportation infrastructure. As a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Shuster continues to work to secure important funding for roadway projects in the 9th district as well as infrastructure improvements throughout Western Pennsylvania. he 112th Congress marks Congressman Shuster’s elevation to the rank of Chairman of the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. This subcommittee is one of the most important transportation subcommittees in the House due to its jurisdiction over everything involving rail transportation, from AMTRAK passenger to freight and cargo rail, employee contracts, and rail security.

	Bringing years of collective bargaining experience to the position, former IAM Strategic Resources Director Steve Sleigh has been named the Fund Director for the IAM National Pension and Benefit Trust Funds. The Fund Director’s primary responsibilities are to provide the highest possible pension benefits to the maximum number of IAM-represented employees, and to make certain that quality health, dental and vision benefits are delivered to IAM members who participate in the Fund’s health and welfare plans. Sleigh began his IAM career in 1975, completing an apprenticeship as a machinist and working as a journeyman printing press erector out of Local 126 in Chicago, IL. After receiving an IAM Scholarship in 1984, Sleigh earned a Bachelor’s degree in Labor Studies from the University of Massachusetts in 1986; a Masters degree in Public Administration from Harvard University in 1987 and a doctorate in sociology from the City University of New York in 1991. Sleigh served as the IAM Director of Strategic Resources from 1994 to 2006, when he began a five-year stint at the Yucaipa Companies, a labor-friendly investment firm.

	Ed Soliday is Indiana House of Representatives & Chair of PPP Council. He currently serves on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Global Airline Industry Program Advisory Group, The National Academies of Sciences Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board and their committee to review NASA aeronautics safety research programs. Representative Soliday also serves on several not for profit boards including: Chairman of the Finance and Operations Committee of Trinity International University and Chairman of the Board of Emmanuel Hospital Association. He has served as an aviation consultant to many organizations including the Rand Corporation, the Boeing Company, Greenbriar Equity, LLP, Skadden & Arp, and Quirk & Bachelor. He currently serves as Indiana State Representative from District 4 where he is Chairman of the Roads & Transportation Committee; a member of the Utilities and Energy Committee; a member of the Veterans Affairs & Public Safety Committee; and a member of the Indiana Military and Veterans Affairs Commission. He also serves as the Assistant Majority Whip.

	Jim Stark replaced Bob Williams as Deputy District Commissioner of the Seymour District in January 2009. Stark was previously a regional manager for Earthwave Technologies. Prior to that he worked for Bowes-Seal-Fast, and he was the owner and CEO of Mastercraft Memorial Services for two decades. He began his work career as a wholesale salesman for Oxford Chemical Company in 1979. All those companies are located in Indianapolis. Stark has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Industrial Design from Purdue University.

	Russell Stidolph is the Senior Vice President and the Chief Financial Officer of Tres Amigas, LLC. He also sits on the Company's Board of Directors. Mr. Stidolph is also the founder and a Managing Director of AltEnergy, LLC a private equity firm focused on alternative energy investing. Prior to forming AltEnergy, Russell Stidolph was a Principal at J.H. Whitney & Co., LLC a middle-market private equity firm based in New Canaan, Connecticut. While at J.H. Whitney Mr. Stidolph was responsible for starting and developing the firm's alternative energy investing practice. Prior to joining J.H. Whitney, Mr. Stidolph was a member of the corporate finance group at PaineWebber, Inc., responsible for high yield and leverage finance origination. Currently, Mr. Stidolph is the Chairman of the board of directors of Viridity, Inc, and sits on the board of directors of American Heartland Development, LLC; AgriSol Energy, LLC and GRP Funding, LLC. Russell received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College.

	Robert Sauvé is the Deputy Minister within the Ministry of Natural Resources & Wildlife, Government of Quebec. He joined the Québec public service in 1987 and since has held many executive positions in various departments. After serving as Associate Secretary General for Aboriginal Affairs and Deputy Minister of Regions, Mr. Sauvé became Associate Deputy Minister of Regional and Municipal Affairs before his appointment as Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Wildlife in June 2009. He has been a Non-independent director of Hydro-Quebec since November 2009. With a Bachelor’s in Architecture from the Université de Montréal and a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Oxford Polytechnic in England, Mr. Sauvé also studied planning and regional development at the doctoral level at the Université de Montréal.

	Gary L. Sypolt is chief executive officer of the company’s Dominion Energy operating segment. His responsibilities include oversight of Dominion’s regulated gas transmission pipeline and storage operations, regulated liquefied natural gas operations, Ohio and West Virginia regulated natural gas distribution operations and producer services operations. He joined the company in 1975 and has held numerous management positions at Dominion. Sypolt was president–Dominion Transmission before assuming his current post in June 2009. Sypolt serves on the boards of the American Gas Association, Interstate Natural Gas Association, Interstate Natural Gas Association Foundation and Southern Gas Association. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from West Virginia University.

	Jay Tannon is a Partner at Patton Boggs LLP. Tannon focuses his practice on private equity and infrastructure, primarily in the energy, communication and transportation sectors. Mr. Tannon has represented several leading private equity funds and strategic investors in transactions of scale, often multinational, with a focus on the energy, communications and transportation sectors. Before joining Patton Boggs, he served in leadership roles at various international law firms, including executive committee positions and experience leading private equity and energy practices. Mr. Tannon co- founded Novus Energy Partners, a transatlantic growth equity investment firm focused on clean technology. Mr. Tannon has served on the USTR/U.S. Department of Commerce International Advisory Committee for Services, and he represented the Commonwealth of Virginia on the Southern Technology Council. He helped the China Council for Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) and the CPR Institute of Dispute Resolution create the US-China Business Mediation Center operating in Beijing and New York. Mr. Tannon often writes for professional publications and addresses legal and business audiences on a range of topics, including private equity, international business acquisitions, energy and infrastructure.

	Senator Mark Warner, is US Senator Commonwealth of Virginia. Mark Warner was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2008, and serves on the Senate's Banking, Budget, Commerce and Intelligence committees. After 2-1/2 years in Congress, Senator Warner has established himself as a national leader in efforts to find bipartisan, commonsense solutions to reduce the federal deficit. He is a champion for small businesses, and has worked to improve the performance and accountability of federal agencies while also celebrating stand-out members of the federal workforce. Senator Warner was born in Indiana and raised in Connecticut. He was the first member of his family to graduate from college, earning an undergraduate degree from George Washington University and a law degree from Harvard. He was an early leader in the cellular telephone industry, co-founding the company that eventually became Nextel and making early investments in hundreds of high-tech start-up companies that created thousands of jobs. As a philanthropist, Senator Warner has been a leader in his support of non-profit organizations that provide health care to under-served communities and promote public schools and strengthen access to higher education. Learn more about Senator Warner.

	Craig Wellen advises clients across the renewable energy infrastructure, cleantech, and renewable power generation sectors on M&A transactions and private capital raises. He is also Greentech Capital Advisors lead Partner covering the smart grid and energy efficiency sectors where he has worked on a number of advisory assignments for leading publicly-traded and venture- backed companies, private equity investors, and global industrial companies. Craig has been able to draw upon his 15 years of investment banking experience focused on the power, utility, energy, and infrastructure sectors to help position developers and cleantech companies to optimize value from strategic acquirers and investors. During his career, he has advised clients on over $25 billion of M&A transactions and on numerous corporate and project- level financings. Craig joined Greentech Capital Advisors from Citi’s Power Group within its Investment Banking Division. While at Citi, he was responsible for originating and executing strategic M&A transactions and corporate capital raises for North American utilities, infrastructure funds, and multinational energy companies. Prior, Craig worked at SG Barr Devlin, a leading M&A boutique focused on the power and utility sectors, where he executed a variety of strategic M&A transactions for Fortune 500 energy utilities.utilities.

	Kevin Willis is the manager of FAA’s Airport Compliance Division. He works with airport sponsors to ensure they comply with their Federal obligations to operate the airport in a safe and efficient manner. He joined the FAA in 1996. Kevin has seventeen years of airport management experience in both the public and private sector. He is an accredited airport executive with the American Association of Airport Executives. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Union College, New York, a Master’s degree in public administration from Rutgers and a Master of Science degree in real estate from Johns Hopkins University.

	Judy Wilson is a leading Canadian practitioner with over 20 years of experience dealing with commercial and procurement issues related to infrastructure, public-private partnerships and public procurement of goods and services (including hospitals, detention centres and similar public facilities, water, wastewater, transit, transportation, solid waste, energy, etc.). She advises clients locally, nationally and internationally on the full spectrum of infrastructure and public procurement issues and has extensive experience in contracts to engage the private sector in the provision of traditional "government" services. Judy is recognized in Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business 2011 in the Projects: PPP & Infrastructure category and Public Procurement category. Law Business Research's The International Who's Who of Public Procurement Lawyers 2011 notes that Judy is “internationally recognized for her work advising clients on infrastructure and public procurement issues and is hailed as a ‘brilliant’ practitioner in PPPs and alternative finance matters.”

	Darrell Wilson joined the Government Relations Department at Norfolk Southern in August of 2001. He served three different Members of Congress on Capitol Hill, including the former Chairman of the Transportation Committee in the House, Bud Shuster from Pennsylvania. While working for the House of Representatives for 12 years, he spent over 7 years on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee as a senior professional staffer. During his tenure on the Committee Darrell served on the Rail and Surface Subcommittees and at the Full Committee level as the Special Assistant to the Chairman. During his last two years on Capitol Hill, Darrell served as Chief of Staff to Congressman Bud Shuster. During this time the committee crafted numerous landmark pieces of legislation, including the ICC Termination Act of 1995, which created the Surface Transportation Board, the NHS Designation Act of 1995, Amtrak Reform Act, the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization, ARC, EDA and the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century. Darrell’s present responsibilities at Norfolk Southern include monitoring legislative and regulatory developments on Capitol Hill and at the STB, FHWA and FRA. He also follows the development of Public Private Partnerships between states, the FHWA and private industry.

	Ed Wytkind is the President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), a Washington, D.C.-based labor organization representing several million workers in the private and public sectors of the aviation, mass transit, rail, trucking, highway, longshore, maritime and related industries. TTD is the transportation policy and legislative arm of its parent organization, the National AFL-CIO, which represents 10 million workers in the United States. Wytkind is currently appointed by the U.S. Trade Representative and Secretary of Labor to serve on the Labor Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations and Trade Policy, which consults the President and Congress on trade policy issues including proposed agreements and treaties. He also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Norman Y. Mineta International Institute for Surface Transportation Policy Studies, as well as the Eno Transportation Foundation's Board of Advisors. Previously, Wytkind served on the Board of Directors for the Transit Development Corporation and worked with public and private transit industry representatives to advance a strong federally supported transit research agenda.

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