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PAMELA BAILEY-CAMPBELL
Pamela Bailey-Campbell is the Market Leader for Private Sector Investment and public-private partnership initiatives for PB Americas. She is a nationally recognized leader in the assessment, financing, implementation of major transportation projects that are developed using PPPs. She has successfully coordinated numerous initiatives covering all aspects of the procurement process including development of policies and procedures, screening and performance criteria, operations and maintenance standards and hand-back requirements, contract negotiations, and risk management. She has served as CEO, CFO and COO of the E-470 Authority, a project developed as a public-private partnership in Denver, Colorado. More recently, as CFO of the Northwest Parkway Authority, Ms. Bailey-Campbell led an initiative to procure a private concessionaire operate and maintain the Parkway under a long-term agreement.
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.
MATTHEW S. BIESCHKE
Matt Bieschke provides business planning analytics, financial capacity analyses, and strategic advisory services for equity investors, private developers, and transportation authorities. He has specific expertise with focus in long-term debt structuring and innovative finance strategies to support major infrastructure investments and Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). He has advised international developers in all aspects of their bids to acquire infrastructure from public and private owners, most recently in the roads and ports sectors, where his efforts have allowed his clients to optimize their bids and make sound management decisions. His transportation finance experience also includes supporting initiatives and referenda to create dedicated transportation funding sources and program management and policy support to several federal transportation administrations.
YUVAL COHEN
Yuval Cohen is the principal leader of PB Consult’s multi-shore and due diligence practices and has assisted a diverse group of clients oversee major infrastructure programs around the world. His expertise in conducting financial and economic evaluations of transportation facilities provides our clients with the basis for making sound investment decisions and optimizing financial performance. His specialties include leading multidisciplinary teams in complex projects worldwide, managing due diligence projects for private investors in the ports, roads and water markets, and assisting sovereign governments with large capital planning, financial monitoring and program management for rail. Dr. Cohen has had a long career in consulting, with a strong academic background and a distinguished series of accomplishments for international clients.
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.
DEVENDRA SONI
Dev Soni specializes in oversight and program management of Federal Transit Administration (FTA) grants with expertise in FTA’s engineering and construction management oversight requirements.
Before joining PB, Mr. Soni served as the Director of the Office of Oversight and Program Management for FTA Region III (Philadelphia) for 25 years. In that role, he advised the Regional Administrator, regional staff, and transit system operators (i.e., grantees) on project management and oversight-related matters. He also guided management of programs for Federal compliance. Since joining PB, Mr. Soni has played a key role in improving program management reporting practices and grant administration for the World Trade Center Transportation Hub project. He has promoted string communication links to FTA Region II and FTA Lower Manhattan Recovery Office staff and helped improve communications between the grantee and FTA. Dev has a strong understanding of program and financial management, budgetary principles and procedures, and program evaluation principles and techniques, and is very familiar with federal transit programs, regulations, procurement legislation, project management guidelines, third-party contracting guidelines, labor requirements, civil rights, and environmental laws.
ROSEANNE SWEENEY
Roseanne Sweeney is a senior finance and management consulting professional with extensive experience in project management and infrastructure projects. At PB, Ms. Sweeney worked for the Chief Financial Officer managing all projects surrounding M&A activities, direct investments in companies, restructurings, and analyses of business line performance and strategic options. In her work with the CFO, she served as a due diligence manager for corporate M&A activities, including managing the analyses and documentation of all aspects of $10 million acquisition.
Prior to PB, Ms. Sweeny has due diligence experience working with lenders and private equity investors from a financial and operational turnaround/restructuring perspective with extensive experience in managing projects involving the financial, strategic and operational aspects of organizations surrounding profit improvements, pricing analyses, business model improvements in such institutions as JPMorgan Chase.
J. MICHAEL ZACHARY
J. Michael Zachary has been named a principal consultant in the Seattle office. He is a specialist in ports, maritime and goods movement, and will be responsible for the global delivery of projects involving the movement of goods and cargo through the world's seaports, airports and inland transportation networks for a wide variety of shippers, carriers, logistics service providers and public agencies, including port authorities. He has more than 28 years of experience working with cargo movements via the world's maritime and intermodal rail networks. He has created strategic master plans for seaports around the world and has managed projects involving design, operational analysis, planning, construction and supply chain risk analysis for more than 200 individual port and rail intermodal terminals and more than 100 additional private and public entities involved in supply chain transportation, logistics and distribution, including risk management of the supply chain.
Mr. Zachary served from 2002 to 2007 as director of port planning, logistics and trucking for the Port of Tacoma. He was the program manager for the Ports of Tacoma and Seattle's Operations Safe Commerce Phase II effort, a federal maritime container security initiative. He currently serves in a secretary level appointment as a member of the 9th and 10th Commercial Operations Advisory Committee to the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Treasury, providing consultation on several proposed Congressional port security bills and providing insight and guidance to Customs and Border Protection for trade facilitation for the movement of goods into and out of the United States and North America.
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