Panel I- Strategies for Implementation of Successful P3 Projects

Tony Canzoneri, McKenna Long Aldridge

For over 35 years Tony Canzoneri has handled sophisticated real estate matters for both private and public sector clients involving all aspects of real estate ownership and development including acquisitions, dispositions, financings, entitlements, leases, residential subdivisions, mixed use projects, and master planned communities. His areas of emphasis include land use, environmental, redevelopment, economic development, distressed real estate workouts, and public/private partnerships.

Mr. Canzoneri was the City Attorney and Redevelopment Agency Counsel for the City of Monterey Park from 1986 to 2009 and the former City Attorney and Redevelopment Agency Counsel for the City of Cerritos (prior to passing that position on to his partner Mark Steres). His years of representing both private and public sector clients has enabled him to develop unique experience in the art of creating and implementing successful public/private partnerships.

Mr. Canzoneri was named a Southern California Super Lawyer in 2005 through 2008.

Markus Pressdee, Credit Suisse

Markus has fourteen years of investment banking experience and has executed in excess of US$ 150 billion of advisory and financing transactions for his clients, primarily in the infrastructure, energy and telecommunications sectors.

Markus has extensive experience advising on and financing a broad range of infrastructure transactions around the world. Currently he is advising the Government Development Bank of Puerto Rico on the monetization of its lotteries, the City of Chicago on the sale of Midway International airport and Global Infrastructure Partners on its offer for Asciano.

Markus joined Credit Suisse in 2007 from UBS where he was a senior member of the mergers and acquisitions group and formerly the Chief Operating Officer for the European M&A team. In his prior role, he led the landmark US$2.4 billion divestiture by Hong Kong based OOIL of four marine container terminals in the ports of New York/New Jersey and Vancouver to Ontario Teachers Pension Plan in 2006. He also advised Network Rail on its GBP9.6 billion acquisition of Railtrack, the UK's national railroad, out of bankruptcy in 2002.

Markus has worked in the U.S. since 2004 prior to which time he was based in London. He is a qualified chartered accountant and graduated from Cambridge University, UK with a B.A. and M.A. in Natural Sciences.

David Grannis, Planning Company Associates

David Grannis founded Planning Company Associates, Inc. to bring a strategic private-public partnership approach to solving critical urban infrastructure and land-use problems. Building on his over twenty years of both public and private sector experience, Grannis specializes in developing and implementing public-private partnership resulting in approval, action and implementation of creative and effective solutions.

Grannis served as Funding Project Manager for the Alameda Corridor project. Lead Government Affairs and Advocacy Program (GAAP), including work with federal, state, regional and local officials and agencies in identifying and securing $800 million in needed transportation funding for this nationally significant project, including a first-ever $400 million federal loan that served as the precursor to TIFIA.

He also serves as transportation infrastructure managers for several private sector firms in California (DMB, Rancho Mission Viejo, Elliot Homes, Lewis Operating Companies), develops comprehensive infrastructure programs aligning infrastructure needs with development opportunities statewide and identifying public and private funding resources to deliver projects on development schedule. Grannis program manages mitigation and infrastructure as a corporate asset and establishes public-private partnership for mobility, access and safety as foundational principle.

As an advisor to several Southern California cities on strategic transportation planning and infrastructure finance programs and approaches (Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena), innovative strategies, including leveraging local tax returns and private-sector fees and resources to better compete for regional, state and federal infrastructure support, are the focus of work. Grannis also served as special advisor to Mayor Richard Riordan on transportation recovery in the wake of the 1994 Northridge Earthquake (1994). He coordinated interim transportation solutions during re-construction of major highways and arterials with U.S. Secretary of Transportation (Pena) and Federal Highway Administrator (Slater), state officials, regional agencies and the City of Los Angeles.

Matt Girard, Flatiron

Matt is Vice President of Business Development for Flatiron. He leads their efforts pursuing design-build contracts with Concessionaires on P3 projects across North America.

Flatiron, headquartered in CO, is classically known as a bridge building contractor, specializing in technically challenging and large bridge structures, such as segmental, cable-stay, and suspension bridges. Flatiron has also been the builder of over $2B worth of design-build green-field bypass type highway projects in recent years, and is currently contracted and building another $1.5 B of similar projects.

Matt has been entrenched in the emerging North American P3 market over recent years, having been involved with Flatiron proposing on well over $5B worth of design-build work on P3 projects during the last 5 years. Flatiron has led the construction efforts on 3 such P3 project pursuits, all in western Canada. One of these includes the award winning Kicking Horse Canyon project, opened to traffic in the Fall of 2007 and completed almost 1 year earlier than originally required by the Owner's procurement documents. The second project is the Northeast Calgary Ringroad project, a $408m construction effort which reached financial close in February 2007, and currently scheduled to open on schedule in November 2009. The third is the Northwest Anthony Henday Drive project, a $995m construction effort which reached financial close in July 2008, and is scheduled to open in November 2011. Matt is currently involved with a variety of different P3 projects currently in the procurement phase in both Canada and the US, including transit projects as well as DOT projects.

Matt has a Bachelors and Masters degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado, specializing in Construction Management. He is also a designated Design-Build Professional as designated by DBIA in the US. He has 20 years of (17 with Flatiron) experience working directly in the heavy civil construction market - including on-site with large civil construction projects as a project engineer and project manager.