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Latest NewsGreg Harden serves as Vice President, Finance Operations for Advocate Health Care.� In this capacity, Greg is responsible for budgeting, capital planning, decision support, labor productivity and strategic financial analysis for Advocate’s twelve hospitals and more than 1,500 employed physicians.� Greg directs the financial and strategic assessment of strategic joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions of hospitals and medical groups.� He also provides system leadership of Advocate’s pricing transparency, financial analysis of population health contracts and the identification of cost reduction initiatives to attain accretive margins at Medicare payment rates.� Greg has a BBA in finance, a Master’s in Business Administration and a Master’s in Health Administration from the University of Iowa.�
Deborah Voit is a credit analyst in Vanguard’s Municipal Credit Research Department.� Vanguard manages over 20 tax-exempt money-market and bond portfolios with total assets exceeding $100 billion.Deborah is Vanguard’s credit team leader for the higher education sector, and her credit work spans bonds issued by universities, not-for-profit organizations, hospitals, and tax-backed entities in Texas and other Gulf Coast states. �Deborah advises Vanguard’s tax-exempt bond and money market portfolio managers, and Vanguard’s taxable portfolio managers, regarding bonds issued in these sectors.�Deborah graduated with a B.A. in Economics and International Studies from LaSalle University and an MBA from Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business.�
John Myers is�the�new Sacramento Bureau Chief of the Los Angeles Times. �A veteran of almost two decades of statehouse and political coverage, he was most recently senior editor of KQED's California Politics & Government Desk and, prior to that, political editor for Sacramento's ABC affiliate, News10 (KXTV). John was moderator of the only 2014 gubernatorial debate, and was named by�The Washington Post�to two "Best Of" lists: the 2015 list of top state politics reporters and 2014's list of America's most influential statehouse reporters.
Amy Lloyd joined ACS in 2013 and has over 16 years of experience in infrastructure and project finance. In her role as Executive Vice President she oversees all of the financing aspects of ACS’ North American portfolio which boasts 10 large-scale transportation P3 projects and has been part of ACS’s recent successful closing of the SH-288 managed lanes project in Texas, the Porstmouth Bypass Project in Ohio, the New Bridge for the St Lawrence (the Champlain Bridge) in Quebec, the Eglinton Crosstown LRT in Ontario, and other current North American pursuits, including , the Southwest Calgary Ring Road Project and the Edmonton LRT project both in Alberta, the I-70E in Coloardo and the LAX Automated People Mover Project in California. Amy is responsible for sourcing competitive and innovative financing solutions for ACS’s projects in North America, and overseeing its existing portfolio which, in addition to the projects listed above, includes: the Autoroute 30 (Montreal, Quebec); The Confederation Line (Ottawa, Ontario); Northeast Anthony Henday Drive (Edmonton, Alberta); the Right Honourable Herb Gray Parkway (Windsor, Ontario); South Fraser Perimeter Road (Vancouver, British Columbia); and I-595 Corridor Roadway Improvements (Florida - USA).Amy holds a Masters in Applied Finance and a Bachelor of Mathematics.
David Spector serves as the director of the Colorado Department of Transportation’s High Performance Transportation Enterprise (HPTE). David has focused his career on providing strategic direction and advice on high-profile public-private infrastructure projects and politically sensitive issues of public importance. Prior to HPTE, he served as legal counsel to Colorado Gov. John W. Hickenlooper, where he worked on multidisciplinary, cross-functional teams, providing strategic advice on a variety of substantive matters including: legislation, public-private partnerships, state budget issues (including TABOR), and �economic development. Previously, he was a partner at Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell LLP, where he focused his practice in the areas of land use, transportation, energy, and municipal law, with an emphasis on counseling public authorities and developers in connection with project development, including public-private partnerships. He has a background in public finance and broad experience working with local communities and nonprofit organizations across Colorado on a variety of issues.David earned his bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and his juris doctor from the University of California, Hasting College of the Law. David enjoys hiking in Colorado’s backcountry, cheering too loudly at Broncos’ home games, and spending time outdoors with his wife and two sons.
Mr. Ciambrone is responsible for coordinating, implementing, and managing all of the public/private business activities of The Walsh Group and its affiliated companies. He has extensive project finance experience that brings a broad prospective and focused development and financial strategies to public/private business opportunities and real estate investment activities. Mr. Ciambrone is currently serving as Walsh’s representative on the Board of Directors of both WVB East End Crossing, LLC (the company that is developing the Ohio River Bridges East End Crossing project with the Indiana Finance Authority) and Plenary Walsh Keystone Partners, LLC, (the company that is developing the Pennsylvania Rapid Bridge Replacement Project with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation).
Dale Bonner is Chairman of Plenary Concessions, which holds Plenary Group’s project company portfolio in North America.From 2007 to 2011, he served as California's Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing. �As secretary, he oversaw the California Department of Transportation and represented the State in domestic and international affairs involving infrastructure, business regulation, trade and foreign investment. �He also chaired the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank and the Public Infrastructure Advisory Commission, and served on numerous other infrastructure boards and commissions.He is credited with championing California’s design-build and public-private partnership programs - advancing the Presidio Parkway public-private partnership, the Gerald Desmond Bridge design-build replacement project, and the Colton Crossing rail-to-rail grade separation, among other major projects.He is a 1990 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and a 1987 graduate of the University of Southern California, where he majored in political science.
As Senior Advisor and Implementation Project Manager for the Build America Bureau, Jodie Misiak is coordinating the establishment of an innovative finance bureau within U.S. DOT, in accordance with the FAST Act transportation re-authorization legislation. Before the establishment of the Bureau, Ms. Misiak served as BATIC’s Director of Project Development, responsible for overseeing and coordinating the prioritization, tracking, and implementation of projects, from preliminary planning through financing. �Previously, as Director of Maryland DOT’s Office of Innovative Project Delivery, Ms. Misiak guided the Department’s P3 and other innovative finance initiatives, including all stages of project development, solicitation, and delivery. She served as MDOT’s point person for statewide efforts to strengthen and clarify P3 policies and processes, including the P3 Commission that was convened in 2011 and the P3 law that was enacted in 2013. Prior to joining MDOT, she held positions in Economics and Business Solutions at Halcrow and in the Municipal Securities at UBS, specializing in transportation finance. She holds a bachelor’s degree in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University and dual master’s degrees in City Planning and Transportation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.�
Stephanie Wagner is a partner in the Government & Infrastructure practice of the Chicago office. She practices in the areas of state and local government law, infrastructure development and public finance, representing public and private sector clients in a wide array of transactional, legislative and regulatory matters.Stephanie has extensive experience in complex government transactions, particularly in the infrastructure sector. Stephanie advises on path-breaking road, bridge, airport, parking, mass transit, convention center and social infrastructure concession and public-private partnership transactions, serving in different transactions as either government entity counsel, sponsor's counsel or lenders' counsel.Stephanie has broad experience in public finance transactions. She has represented clients in tax-exempt financings as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, issuer's counsel, conduit borrower's counsel and credit enhancer's counsel and has participated in short-term and long-term financings involving educational institutions, 501(c)(3) corporations, multi-family housing, healthcare providers, transportation and professional sports stadiums.Stephanie also represents clients in various state and local government matters, including in the areas of ethics, public utility tax issues and legislative drafting and statutory interpretation.�
Bryan Kendro formed Public Solutions and Strategies following more than a decade of public sector service at both the State and Federal level holding senior positions in government and advising policy makers on a variety issues.Most recently Bryan was the director of the Office of Policy & Public Private Partnerships at the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.� Under his leadership, the Commonwealth reached financial close on the Rapid Bridge Replacement P3 Project, which will replace 558 bridges across the Commonwealth in the next 3 years.Before joining the Corbett Administration and PennDOT, Bryan was a long time aide to Congressman Jim Gerlach both in Washington D.C. and as his District Director in Pennsylvania.� While in Washington he served as a senior policy advisor and liaison to the US House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.





