2016 Keynote Speakers

Deborah Flint

Executive Director

Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA)

John Hickenlooper

Governor

State of Colorado

Harvey Hilderbran

Executive Director

Texas Facilities Commission

Mayor Michael Hancock

Mayor

City and County of Denver

2016 Partial List of Speakers

Albert Dotson

Partner, Government Relations & Land Development Practice Group Leader

Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP.

Andrea Warfield

Director, O&M

Fluor

Andrée Blais

Partner

Nossaman

Angela Berry Roberson

Corporate Diversity and Contract Compliance Director

Ferrovial Agroman

Belen Marcos

United States President

Cintra

Beth Zafonte

Director of Economic Development Services

Akerman LLP

Bill Hale

Chief Engineer

TxDOT

Bill Malarkey

Senior Vice President – Strategy and Market Development

Severn Trent – North America

Blanding Beatty

Vice President

Century Investment Partners

Bob Hunt

Managing Director

JLL

Bob Shepko

Division President

Balfour Beatty Campus Solutions

Bob Swerdling

President

Swerdling & Associates

Brandon Kelley

Vice President, Corporate Strategy at U.S. Facilities, Inc

US Facilities

Brian Cullen

President

PERC Water

Brian Jiguere

Senior Compliance Officer

Landon & Rian Enterprises, Inc.

Bryan Kendro

‎Vice President of Project Development

Star America

Carol Rosenfeld

Senior Finance Analyst

Environmental Finance Center, UNC-Chapel Hill

Chad Crandell

President

CHMWarnick

Charles Johnson

President and Chief Executive Officer

Johnson Consulting

Charles Renner

Partner

Husch Blackwell LLP

Chris Rick

Project Director, Alternative Financing and Procurement

PCL Construction

Christopher Yontz

Managing Partner

Century HealthRealty

Chuck Haines

Director of Capital Development

University of California, Santa Barbara

Claudio Andreetta

Director, Business Development, Public-Private Partnerships (P3)

Johnson Controls

Dale Bonner

Executive Chairman

Plenary Concessions

Dan Marsh

Senior Program Manager

NDC HEDC Public-Private Partnerships

Daniel M. Feitelberg

Principal, Advisory

KPMG, LLP

Daniel Sugarman

Managing Director

KWP Capital

David Spector

Director of HPTE

Colorado Department of Transportation

Dawn P. Bookhardt

Vice Chair

Metropolitan State University of Denver

Dennis Norvet

Senior Vice President

Skanska USA

Diana Parks

Vice President

Tutor Perini Corporation

Don Hunt

Senior Fellow

Buechner Institute for Governance, University of Colorado Denver-School of Public Affairs

Ed Crowston

Chief Executive Officer

First Solutions

Elizabeth Weber

Partner

DBL Law

Eric Petersen

Partner

Hawkins Delafield & Wood LLP

Frank Rapoport

Partner

Peckar & Abramson

Geoff Eisenacher

Vice President of Business Development

Corvias Campus Living

Geoffery Stricker

Managing Director

Edgemoor Infrastructure & Real Estate

George M. Burgess

Chief Operating Officer, Co-Chair of PPP Group

Becker & Poliakoff

Graeme Mitchell

Assistant Vice President, Facilities

University of the Pacific

Hans Detlefsen

President

Hotel Appraisers & Advisors, LLC

Ignacio Barandiaran

Principal

Arup

Jack A. Callahan

Partner, Construction Industry Practice Leader

CohnReznick

Jason Taylor

Senior Vice President of University Partnerships

EdR Collegiate Housing

Jay Lindgren

Partner

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Jeff Goodale

Leader of Justice Practice

HOK

Jeff W. Graham

Executive Director- Real Estate

University of California, San Diego

Jeffrey A. Hughes

Lecturer and Director, Environmental Finance Center

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jennifer Bales Drake

Shareholder

Becker & Poliakoff

Jessica Murray

Vice President of Strategic Initiatives

The Walsh Group

Jesús Nava

Chief Administrative Officer

Santa Clara Valley Water District

Jill Jamieson

Managing Director

JLL’s Public Institutions team

Joe Lewis

Principal

Business Transformation Group

Joe Sarnovsky

Executive Vice President, CFO

Seminole State College

Joe Wingerter

Director of P3 Project Development

Kiewit

John Gormley

Dir, Planning,Design&Constr

California State University Channel Islands

John Larue

Executive Director

Port of Corpus Christi Authority

John Medina

Vice President - Senior Analyst

Moody's Investors Service

John Parkinson

Executive Director

AIAI – the Association for the Improvement of American Infrastructure

Jon Godsmark

Senior Vice President

Ernst & Young Infrastructure Advisors

Jonathan Trutt

Executive Director

West Coast Infrastructure Exchange (WCX)

Jong Sook Nee

Partner

McManimon, Scotland & Baumann

José Luis Moscovich

Executive Vice President

Project Finance Advisory

Joseph M. Coyle

President

University Student Living

Judson Greif

Government Affairs Analyst

K&L Gates

Karen Kedem

VP and Senior Analyst Higher Education

Moody's Investors Service

Kevin Pula

Research Analyst

National Conference of State Legislatures

Korin Crawford

FUSE Executive Fellow | Office of the City Administrative Officer

City of Los Angeles

Krista Ferrell

Director of Strategic Programs

National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO)

Lee Weintraub

Shareholder - Vice Chair, Construction Law and Litigation

Becker & Poliakoff

Lindsay Stowell

Manager, Infrastructure

KPMG

Lynnette Slater Crandall

Co-Chair of Public-Private Project Development

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Mark Linsenmayer

Public-Private Partnership Manager

Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Mark McClenaghan

Director, P3 Operations Americas

Johnson Controls

Mark Melson

Chief Operating Officer

Star America Infrastructure Partners

Mark Purcell

Vice President

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide

Mark Strauss

Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Business Development

American Water

Mary Campbell

Vice President - Business Development

SUEZ of North America

Mary Scott Nabers

President & CEO

Strategic Partnerships, Inc.

Matt Girard

COO

Plenary Concessions

Maura Gast

Executive Director

Irving Convention and Visitors Bureau

Michael Cheroutes

Director

Colorado Center for Infrastructure Investment

Michael Deane

Executive Director

National Association of Water Companies

Michael Morris

Managing Partner

Cana Development

Michael S. Zetlin

Senior Partner

Zetlin & De Chiara LLP

Miguel A. Santana

City Administrative Officer

City of Los Angeles

Mike Hayden

Chief Operating Officer

Kentucky Communications Network Authority

Mike Lee

CEO

KentuckyWired Operations Co. LLC

Mike Marasco

CEO

Plenary Concessions

Nicholas Hann

Executive Director - Infrastructure Group

Macquarie Group

Norman Dong

Commissioner of the Public Buildings Service (PBS)

U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)

Orion Fulton

Associate Principal

Arup

Patricia de la Peña

Partner

Nossaman LLP

Patrick Cairo

Senior Vice President, Corporate Development

SUEZ North America

Patrick Hughes

Partner

Dressman Benzinger LaVelle

Patrick Russell

Managing Director, Education & Nonprofit Group

Wells Fargo

Peter Joseph

Executive Director

Invest In the USA (IIUSA)

Philippe Rapin

Director Transaction Advisory Americas

Mott MacDonald

Phillip Ray

Vice Chancellor for Business Affairs

Texas A&M University System

Ramon Villaamil

Chief Operating Officer

ACS Infrastructure Development

Ray Hallquist

Vice President of Special Projects

Kiewit Building Group

Renee Lamb

Project Manager

Texas Department of Transportation

Rex Bush

Assistant Chief Engineer

ALDOT

Rob Hunden

Principal

Hunden Strategic Partners

Robert E. Slockbower

Director of Programs

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Robert Hinkle

Corporate Affairs Director

NTE Mobility Partners & LBJ Infrastructure Group

Robert Sloposky

Group Director - Senior Vice President

Signature Bank

Robert Utsey

Senior Vice President - Business Development

Skanska USA

Rodney L. Moss

Sr. Vice President

‎Hunt Companies,Inc

Russell Dykstra

Partner

Spencer Fane Britt & Browne LLP

Samara Barend

Senior Vice President and PPP Director for North America

AECOM

Samuel Franco

Director

Center for Alternative Finance and Procurement

Santiago Klein

Director

McBains Cooper

Seth Merewitz

Partner

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Shannan Nelson

Director of Business Operations

University of Kansas

Stephen Gallo

Former Executive Director of the Bayonne Municipal Utilities Authority

Bayonne Municipal Utilities Authority

Steve Dewitt

Senior Vice President Business Development

ACS Infrastructure Development, Inc.

Steve Meininger

Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Operations Management Services

CH2M

Stuart Marks

Senior Vice President

Plenary Group

Susan Hart Ridley

Associate Vice Chancellor

University System of Georgia’

Timothy Merriweather

Executive Director

Texas Infrastructure Council

Tony Gill

Global Director, P3 Buildings

IBI Group Inc.

Troy Schulte

City Manager

Kansas City

William T. Eliopoulos

Partner

Rutan & Tucker, LLP