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Meet our speakers
CEO,
Canada Line Rapid Transit Inc.
Jane Bird is the Chief Executive Officer of Canada Line Rapid Transit Inc. In her capacity as CEO, Ms. Bird is the senior executive responsible for the management and implementation of the Richmond•Airport•Vancouver rapid transit project. Prior to her involvement with Canada Line, Ms. Bird was retained by the City of Vancouver, where she was responsible for negotiations with the Province of BC and TransLink, on the Millennium Line SkyTrain extension. Ms. Bird is a lawyer. Prior to her work on transportation and infrastructure projects, she was a partner in private practice in corporate, commercial and real estate law. Ms. Bird is a recent graduate of the ICD Corporate Governance College, Directors Education Program. She is a past Chair of the Vancouver City Planning Commission and a former director of the Vancouver Parking Corporation.
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Since July 2004 he’s been Managing Director for Roma Metropolitane S.r.l., the city-owned company responsible of the coordination and control of the whole enacting process of a 10 billion Euros works plan concerning the development, modernization and expansion of Rome’s subway network, public transport corridors and innovative transport systems, wire ones included, and every other intervention regarding public transportation with dedicated lanes, and connected and/or complementary works, to be realized in the City of Rome. Since 1997 to 2004, for S.T.A. Società Trasporti Automobilistici S.p.a., he leaded the Department of Legal and Corporate Affairs and Tenders and was Secretary of Board of Directors and Shareholders’ Meetings. He was charged with chairing the Tender Commissions for the procurement of works, services and supplies for a global amount of about 1,5 billion Euros. Since 1997 to 1998 he was Managing Director for S.T.A. Sistemi di Trasporto S.p.a., a company totally owned by S.T.A. S.p.a. and operating in the subway sector, charged with projecting the new Line C, the modernization of Line A and the extension of Line B of Rome’s subway. Then he cured and accomplished the merger by acquisition of the company by the parent S.T.A. S.p.a. Since 1994 to 1997 he worked in the Legal Affairs Departement for IRI – Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale S.p.a. Since 1993 to 1994 he was Manager of the Tenders, Contracts and Legal Affairs Sector for Servizi Tecnici S.p.a., IRI-FINTENCA Group. As proxy for the Managing Director, during this time he chaired the Tender Commissions for the procurement of works for a global amount of about 260 million Euros. Since 1987 to 1992 he was employee of ITALPOSTE S.p.a. IRI-ITALSTAT Group, in the Contracts and Tenders Office, stipulating agreements with public and private bodies as attorney-in-fact for the Managing Director. Since 2005 to 2007 he’s been Full Professor of Programming and Control at the Cassino University, Business College, Laurea Degree Course of Corporate Business and Administration. He is Vice-Chairman of the Management Board of IGI Istituto Grandi Infrastrutture. He is Professor at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Business College, Master of Innovative Management in Public Administration. He is Contracted Professor of Project management at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Architecture College.
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General Manager, Rail Operations,
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation
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Jose Gustavo de Souza Costa, CEO,
Metrô Rio
Mr. José Gustavo de Souza Costa, 61, has extensive experience in regulated industries as both an investor and Board Member, having served as Chairman of the Boards of SuperVia, the Rio de Janeiro commuter train operator, and of Excelsior, the electrical energy distributor, headquartered in the State of Espírito Santo. In addition, Mr. Souza Costa has served as a Board Member of some of Brazil’s most prestigious companies, including: Eletrobrás, IBP – Instituto Brasileiro de Petróleo, Bolsa Mercantil e de Futuros, and Banco Pactual. Mr. Souza Costa began his career as an executive in the mining sector, having served as CFO of Cia. de Mineração do Amapá and subsequently as CEO of São Bento Mineração S/A, before transferring to the financial sector, where he served as a Director of both Banco Icatú and Banco Pactual. Mr. Souza Costa earned his degree in Economics at the Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Estado da Guanabara – Rio de Janeiro.
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Director and General Manager,
Port Authority Trans Hudson
Michael P. DePallo became the Director/General Manager of PATH in April 1996. Prior to this position, his significant experience outside the Port Authority includes nearly 20 years of progressively responsible positions with the Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) in Oakland, California, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Authority (SEPTA) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In his current position as Director/General Manager of PATH, Mike directs all operations, maintenance, capital program, safety, security, administration, and customer service and support functions of the PATH system. Mike's overall goal is to improve customer service, safety, financial performance and operational efficiency of the rapid transit system. PATH's success has been widely recognized by the national transit industry through three outstanding achievement awards received from the American Public Transportation Association (APTA). Mike is very active in APTA and recently served as APTA's Vice Chair, Rail Transit. Mike earned a Master of City Planning degree from the University of Pennsylvania specializing in Public Transportation.
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COO,
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
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Director of Safety,
Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority
Ms. Gallo has over twenty years of progressive management experience in public transit, has held the position of Director of System Safety at the Authority since 1998. Ms. Gallo was trained at TEEX and New Mexico Tech in state of the art emergency preparedness procedures and policy development.
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Director, Transit Market Development & Tendering,
Alstom Transport
Marc Gouyon-Rety is in charge of all market intelligence, pre-tendering / tendering activities and product portfolio for the urban signalling and information systems unit within Alstom Transport. He has more than 12 years of experience in the rail industry in engineering, programme management and business development. Marc began his career with SNCF, the French National Railways company, managing infrastructure maintenance and works units, then as a programme manager for new infrastructure projects. He then joined Systra, the leading international rail consultancy, where he held system engineering, project management and business development responsibilities in France, the UK and the UAE. Along his career, he has been involved in such major projects as Paris RER Line E, Bangkok MRT Chaloem Ratchamongkhon (Blue) Line, Dubai Metro Red & Green Lines and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. Marc holds a degree in engineering from France’s Supélec engineering school and a MBA from IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland. He joined Alstom Transport in his present capacity in January 2007.
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Francisco Borjorquez Hernandez, Director General,
Mexico City Metro
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Transportation Market Director,
Alcatel-Lucent
Bob Herritty is the Alcatel-Lucent Transportation Market Director and brings to the role more than 20 years experience of the transport industry. He has previously held roles inside Alcatel-Lucent as the Vertical Markets Sales Director in the UK, Managing Director of Alcatel's Saft Power Systems Ltd business unit in London and Managing Director of Saft Singapore (pte) Ltd in Singapore. Bob also spent 14 years developing business for Alcatel transport oriented speciality business units in North America. His experience has included membership of IEEE SCC29 writing US standards for battery systems; he has been a commissioner on the Production Industries Commission of the London Development Agency and currently is the Alcatel-Lucent representative on the Confederation of British Industry, Council for Wales. Bob is a graduate of the University of London.
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President,
Chicago Transit Authority
Ron Huberman was appointed President of the Chicago Transit Authority in May 2007. Huberman oversees the day-to-day operations of the second largest transit agency in the country. CTA’s 154 bus routes and eight rail routes provide nearly 1.6 million rides on an average weekday to Chicago and 40 surrounding suburbs. From 2005 to 2007, Huberman served as Chief of Staff for Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. As Chief of Staff, Ron Huberman directed the operations of the City of Chicago’s 49 departments and 39,000 employees, and oversaw an annual budget of $5.7 billion. Huberman led the City’s reform initiatives to eliminate corruption in City government, and put in place a dynamic new performance management system to measure and reward the performance of every City department and employee. From 2004 to 2005, Huberman served as Executive Director of the City of Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC). The OEMC oversees Chicago’s Police and Fire emergency response, and serves as the City’s primary agency on all homeland security issues, coordinating with local, state and federal agencies to ensure emergency preparedness. While at OEMC, Huberman executed Mayor Daley’s vision by developing Operation Virtual Shield, greatly expanding the number of technologies used to reduce crime and increase public safety. Huberman also established the state-of-the-art Operations Center, Chicago’s “nerve center,” which provides real-time intelligence to public safety officials. Prior to his appointment as Executive Director at OEMC, Huberman served the Chicago Police Department for nine years. Huberman began his career as a beat cop with various tactical gang team and special operations unit assignments. Huberman then served as Director of Information Services, where he formed a partnership with the Illinois State Police to establish an integrated criminal justices system known as Citizen and Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting (CLEAR), the first such database in the nation. Huberman later served as an Assistant Deputy Superintendent, managing over 600 civilian employees and sworn officers and developing innovative policing strategies that utilized cutting-edge technology to achieve significant decreases in crime. Huberman speaks extensively across the country and has chaired special committees on homeland security and policing on behalf of the Police Executive Research Forum and the United States Department of Justice. Huberman has also conducted domestic and international research on homicide prevention, and his writing on community policing has been published by the Department of Justice. Huberman is the recipient of a number of awards and honors, including the International Gary P. Hayes Award for innovation and leadership in policing, and has received a number of special commendations from the Chicago Police Department including 24 Honorable Mentions. Huberman was also named one of Intelligence and Warning America’s “Top 5” in the United States. Huberman was born in Tel Aviv and raised in LaGrange, Illinois. He received his bachelor’s degree in English and Psychology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Huberman received master’s degrees in Business Administration and Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago, where he was both an Albert Schweitzer and Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow.
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President,
Subterráneos de Buenos Aires S.E.
Electronic Engineer and MBA, he joined the German electrical and electronic company Siemens in 1978, where he developed his career for more than 20 years both in Argentina and Germany. He started at Siemens as a System Engineer specialized in Instrumentation & Control for Nuclear Power Stations in Germany, and continued as Project Manager, then Sales, Marketing and Production VP for electrical products at Siemens in Argentina, where he was also member at the Executive Committee. Back in Germany in 1994, he was Head of the Audit of Siemens AG. In 1997, he joined the Board of SOCMA, a 35.000-employee and 4-billion-revenue Argentine Holding active in Construction, Engineering, Gas and Electricity Distribution, Real Estate, Food & Automotive Industries, and Financial Services in Argentina and Brazil. He was also Chairman and CEO of the privatized Post Office, undergoing a substancial turnaround. He led, then, as Chairman and CEO, two of the most challenging transformations projects in Argentina - the downsizing and closing of a Satellite Company with European shareholders and solving the Chapter Eleven situation of one the biggest logistic companies in Argentina, with successful results in both cases. Mr. Macri, Mayor of Buenos Aires, asked him last December to take over as Chairman of the Board of Buenos Aires Metro.
Jorge is an experienced ocean sailor, fluent in German, English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
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Director,
Miami-Dade Transit
Harpal S. Kapoor has served as Director of Miami-Dade Transit (MDT) since June 2007 and has more than 23 years of experience in public transportation. Harpal began his career in 1978 as a design engineer in New Delhi, India. He joined MDT as a rail vehicle electronic technician in 1985 and rose steadily through the ranks to the position of assistant general superintendent of bus maintenance in 1996. In 1999, Harpal joined the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) as assistant manager of bus engineering. He rejoined MDT in February 2006 as Deputy Director of Operations, and in March 2007, he was appointed Interim Director, his position being made permanent three months later. As MDT's Director, Harpal heads the largest transit system in Florida and one of the dozen largest in the United States. Since he took the helm at the department, he has consistently emphasized results-oriented government, a focus on efficiency and customer service excellence.
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President & CEO,
SkyTrain (Vancouver)
President and Chief Executive Officer of both the British Columbia Rapid Transit Company (known as SkyTrain) and the West Coast Express commuter rail system. He is responsible for the operating assets exceeding $2.5 billion that cover much of Greater Vancouver and parts of the Fraser Valley. Doug has a strong private sector background in leading significant change to achieve top performance in both the private and public sectors including multi-national organizations. During his current tenure operating the Vancouver region’s urban passenger rail systems, he has significantly improved fiscal, operating performance and cost recovery by over 100% at West Coast Express. SkyTrain has also reduced its costs by many millions of dollars in just a few years while now carrying approximately 70 million riders per year and achieving an operating cost recovery last year of over 105%. Doug’s background includes; strategic planning, finance, mergers and divestitures, operations, asset management, marketing, distribution and real estate. He recently graduated from the CEO program at the Kellogg School of Business. In addition to President/CEO of SkyTrain and West Coast Express, Doug was the leader responsible for the development and defence of the transportation plan with the International Olympic Committee during the successful Vancouver 2010 Olympic bid phase. He is currently the Chairman of the Transportation Committee for 2010 Olympic Games.
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João Pavão Martins obtained his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence in 1983 by the State University of New York at Buffalo. His academic career has been linked to the School of Engineering (IST) of the Technical University of Lisbon, where he holds the position of Full Professor of Computer Science. In 1986, together with Ernesto Morgado, he founded SISCOG, Sistemas Cognitivos, a start up company devoted to the applications of Artificial Intelligence. He has been acting as one of the managers of the company, leading it from a technology-based to a products-based company successfully acting in the global market. SISCOG exports software for five European countries and has a turnover of 6.5M US$.
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SVP, Rail Program Development,
Dallas Area Rapid Transit
Timothy H. McKay, a professional engineer who began serving DART as a consultant in 1987, directs the Rail Program Development department and reports to the President/Executive Director. As DART continues one of America's largest light rail expansions, his department is responsible for more than 150 projects encompassing all major capital projects design and construction efforts, including light rail, bus facilities and rail vehicles. He is also the management liaison for the Board's Project Management Committee for departmental matters. The Commuter Rail and Railroad Management Department is also part of Rail Program Development. Divisions reporting to Rail Program Development include Facilities Engineering, Construction Management, Systems Engineering, Technical Services and Real Estate. In addition to these five divisions, the DART Manager for Quality Assurance also reports to the Senior Vice President. McKay's involvement with DART began when he was with Professional Service Industries, Inc. and continued when he joined Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, Inc.
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Deputy CEO,
BKV LTD - DBR Metro
Technical University Veszprém, Hungary diploma of Chemical Engineering (1972)
Postgraduate School of Banking, diploma of Banking (1991)
Doctor of Technical Sciences (1975)
PhD (Candidate of Sciences, Academic level) (1982)
Work experience:
Professor of the Eötvös Loránd University Budapest (1973-1982)
Deputy Director General of the Hungarian National Blood Banking Service (1982-1990 )
IT manager of the NN Insurance Company (1990-1991)
Deputy CEO of the Inter-Európa Bank, responsible for computerization (1991-1994)
CEO of IDOM RT, an IT consulting firm of 230 employees, 3.7Billion HUF turnover, market leader in many consulting fields mainly in banking, member of Deloitte Touche Central Europe (1994- 1996)
Partner of Deloitte Touche Central Europe (1996-2000)
Executive Director of Inter-Europa Bank, responsible for IT (2000-2007)
Vice Rector of the Veszprém University (2003-2007)
Deputy CEO of BKV, Budapest Transport Corporation (2007-)
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Editor,
Metro Report International
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Clemente Pérez Errazuriz, President,
Santiago Metro
Clemente Pérez, Attorney at Law of the Catholic University of Chile, Master in Public Policies (M.P.P) of Georgetown University and Master in Business Administration (MBA) of the Catholic University of Chile, is Chairman of Metro of Santiago (Santiago’s Subway) - State owned company that transports more than 2,3 MM. trips per day - since 2007. He was previously Deputy Chairman of the same company since 2006. Mr. Pérez experience has included Vice Minister of the Ministry of Public Works (2003-2005), Member of the Board of the State Owned Companies System (SEP) - Chilean holding of State owned companies - and Director of the National Commission for the Environment (CONAMA), main responsible of the design and implementation of the Pollution Control Plan for Santiago. He was also Consultant of Environment and Urban Development Division of The World Bank (IBRD), and the Sustainable Development and Social Programs Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), Washington DC.
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Vice President Market Development & Tendering,
Alstom Transport Information Solutions
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Mr. Roy is CPCS’ VP for North America. He has been involved in transport infrastructure consulting projects for close to a decade. Mr. Roy focuses on helping governments introduce private sector participation in urban transit, rail, road, port, and marine infrastructure sectors. Much of this work includes structuring Public-Private Partnership (P3) financing arrangements, allocating related project risks and responsibilities, and providing transaction advisory services—from preparation of tender documents through financial close of concession agreements. Mr. Roy’s roles have included Project Manager, Transaction Advisor, Economic and Financial Analyst, and Marketing Specialist. Recent mandates have included Project Management of the Transaction Advisory Team for the Amman-Zarqa light rail PPP project in Jordan, rail privatization advisory services to the management of the Railway of Iran, privatization of two African railways and Gateway infrastructure planning in Canada. He has presented at several conferences on the subject of P3s and related risk allocations.
Marc-André holds an International MBA (top graduate) from the Schulich School of Business, York University.
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Snr. Director Engineering,
Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County
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Conference:
Day 1
November 6, 2008 8am - 5:30pm
Day 2
November 7, 2008 8am - 5:30pm
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