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, Brent led the development of legislatively-mandated finance plans for submittal to an expert review panel for two local projects representing an $8 billion investment.  Brent also led a toll feasibility study to assess the financial capacity of tolling to fund a highway replacement project in San Francisco.

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.

GEORGE CURRIE
George Currie, based in Singapore, leads PB Consult’s team in Asia and manages the development and delivery of large infrastructure projects. He combines a strong academic background in the management of the construction process with experience of identifying and meeting the needs of clients from both the public sector and from a wide range of industries. For the Manila North Tollways project, he served as commercial manager and contracts advisor to the project sponsor and was responsible for development and negotiation of the revised concession and the financing documents leading to successful closure of the first phase of this $1.2 billion project.  Mr. Currie also assists clients with organizational issues arising from the privatization of government entities around the region.

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 Consult’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.

EMIL FRANKEL
Emil Frankel’s career in public policy has focused on the transportation industry -- serving as Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy in the Bush Administration advising on policymaking in the surface transportation modes and also serving as Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Transportation.  As a consultant to PB Consult, his efforts are focused on helping clients deal with the changing priorities in infrastructure development, including transportation infrastructure project financing, policy advice and strategic planning, organizational change management, and the application of information technologies to transportation systems and management. His key areas of experience and interest are in intermodal freight transportation, reform of the nation's intercity passenger rail system, transportation infrastructure project financing, and the application of information technologies to transportation systems operations and maintenance.

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).

LEWISON LEM
Dr. Lem is responsible for the transportation energy and climate change consulting practice area for PB Consult and is an innovator in and leading contributor to the fields of transportation planning and public policy.  Dr. Lem is internationally recognized in the areas of transportation, energy, and climate change issues and has extensive experience working with clients toward consensus-building, policy development, and analysis and research relating to transportation, land use, energy, and environmental issues.  He has recently been a senior consultant and work group leader for the Center for Climate Strategies on projects where he assessed and facilitated decision-making regarding the energy efficiency and climate change emissions reductions potential of transportation and land use policies and programs in several western states.   He previously worked at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, where he successfully co-managed a million dollar program of transportation, air pollution, energy, and climate change projects.

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.

ALASDAIR MACPHAIL
Alasdair MacPhail is a strategic and management consultant experienced in the use of private funding for infrastructure projects and the use of private sector companies for the provision of public services. Former clients include government departments and agencies, banks and funding institutions and equity investors. Projects undertaken by Alasdair range from lenders advisory work on transport and social buildings to advisor to government PPP programs, such as the National Roads Authority of Ireland.  Mr. MacPhail was the lenders technical advisor for the North Luzon Expressway project in the Philippines -- a new directly tolled 83-kilometer (51 miles) highway running north out of Metro Manila. His input to the project has included all aspects of funder’s due diligence and revenue projections. Currently he is working for the equity investors on a project to provide a new crossing of the Fraser River in Vancouver Canada and for the equity investors in a UK Building Schools for the future project in Newcastle UK.

LAURIE MAHON
Laurie Mahon brings experience in the management, development and financing of projects in the areas of transportation, energy, telecommunications and environmental protection. She also has broad qualifications in the financing of large projects, both public and private, and has advised several large international developers on the development of large urban mass transit systems, railroad privatization, strategic acquisitions and highway project development and financing. Ms. Mahon has served as the lead banker on more than two dozen transportation projects around the world and is currently serving as consultant to a major Canadian transportation authority and to the Panama Canal Authority.

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.  Currently, Mr. Morales serves as Director of Markets for PB Americas to develop solutions that are relevant to our clients and the market place.

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.

KENT OLSEN
Kent Olsen offers extensive experience in the infrastructure industry with emphasis on delivery of major transportation programs worldwide. His experiences include projects involving heavy civil construction efforts, design-build projects, preliminary and detailed engineering, operations and maintenance planning, financial control for equipment, construction of track work, highways and structures, right-of-way acquisition and rail system integration.  Prior to joining PB Consult, Kent was seconded as president to California Transportation Ventures, Inc. (CTV).  CTV is the corporation awarded a franchise by the State of California to finance, design, build, and operate the 11.2-mile (18 km), $635 million SR125 toll facility in San Diego County -- the first new privately owned and operated toll road in the western United States.  Mr. Olsen is currently providing strategic advisory services to the Riverside County Transportation Commission in California to evaluate and structure development approaches, including the opportunity for public-private partnerships, for potential toll road, and managed lane projects in the County.

TED REBHOLZ
As co-leader of PB Consult’s Goods Movement practice, Ted focuses on assessing the value and feasibility of infrastructure-related investments, acquisitions and operating companies. Ted has recently served as project manager, on behalf of several different private equity funds, providing strategic due diligence services to help evaluate transactions involving container terminals worldwide.  These client engagements have brought to bear PB’s multi-disciplinary talents, including financial and industry analysis, macroeconomic forecasting, environmental assessment, and operational and engineering expertise, and have informed the revenue, operating costs and capital investment assumptions of multi-billion dollar valuations.  Ted’s core areas of expertise include evaluating investment opportunities, performing financial, cost-benefit, feasibility and return-on-investment analyses of existing and potential projects, building financial models and coordinating large project teams.

ERIC ROECKS
Eric Roecks is a principal serving PB Consult's 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.

PAUL SKOUTELAS
Paul Skoutelas is the Transit Market Leader for PB Americas.  He is responsible for strategic and tactical advice to PB and its clients on transit issues.  Mr. Skoutelas also provides advisory services in transportation operations, bus and rail systems, planning and transit management, enabling clients to develop cost-effective programs to better operate, maintain and expand their transportation systems.  Mr. Skoutelas joined PB after successful tenures as chief executive officer at two of the United States’ most dynamic public transportation agencies -- the Port of Authority of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and the Central Florida Regional Transportation Authority (LYNX).  His broad background includes the development, implementation and management of large-scale capital programs for a variety of transportation facilities.  In addition, he has extensive experience in finance, budgeting, operations, planning, human resources, labor relations, marketing, procurement, auditing, government affairs, and media relations.  An industry leader, Mr. Skoutelas serves on numerous boards and committees for organizations including the American Public Transportation Association, National Transit Institute, Pennsylvania Transportation Institute, and the Transit Cooperative Research Program.

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.

DAVID TWEEDY
David Tweedy’s career combines a unique blend of private sector experience in major manufacturing and international banking companies and public sector expertise as executive manager of two of New York’s largest and most complex public agencies.  As First Deputy Commissioner for New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection, Mr. Tweedy created and implemented significant change management processes and procedures to reduce receivables from a backlog of $1.1 billion to $600 million in under two years.  For New York City Transit, as Senior Director of Capital Program Management, he created an unprecedented, all-agency platform to integrate the MTA’s capital projects under one enterprise system supporting a $20 billion, 10-year capital program.  With a focus on change management and streamlining processes and operations, he brings to PB Consult’s clients broad experience in financial analysis, infrastructure project management, management consulting, budgeting, planning, and IT management and administration. Mr. Tweedy is currently project manager for several organizational development projects, including a strategic plan for a major water utility and an organizational design study for a Canadian transportation authority.

Pamela Bailey-Campbell
Brent Baker
Matt Bieschke
Yuval Cohen
George Currie
Sheila Dezarn
Don Emerson
Emil Frankel
Ira Hirschman
Kurt Krauss
Dan Lanning
Lewison Lem
Steve Lockwood
Alan Lubliner
Alasdair MacPhail
Laurie Mahon
Wayne McDaniel
Jeff Morales
Glenn Nestel
Kent Olsen
Ted Rebholz
Eric Roecks
Paul Skoutelas
Scudder Smith
David Tweedy