Infralogic US P3 Forum 2023
Getting creative: how P3s can be part of the solution to deliver America’s essential infrastructure
Conrad New York Downtown, 102 North End Avenue, New York, NY 10282
13
Jun
Improving communities through P3s and getting constituent buy-in
Constituents buy in is crucial for the success of P3s. Potential projects often face public backlash, often due to a misunderstanding of the terms of P3s. In this session, hear from both the public and private sector, about the best strategies to educate communities on the merits of using P3s to buildcritical infrastructure.
- What is the best time for governments to start educating the public?
- How can procurement agencies find the right advisors?
- What can state legislators, government departments and agencies do to speed up the procurement of P3 projects?
- What political and geographical issues must be considered? How much does public sentiment play into these considerations?
- What steps should a government agency take to determine the right level of public funding for a project?
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SpeakersNatriece Bryant Public Private Partnership Director Colorado Department of Personnel and Administration
Jeremy Ebie Co-Founder & Managing Partner Phoenix Infrastructure Group
Jim Ziglar Principal Rebel Group
Jonathan Carmody Managing Editor, Americas Infralogic
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Natriece Bryant is the Public Private Partnership (P3) Director for the Department of Personnel and Administration. She oversees the development, construction, planning, design, and expansion for State P3 projects that accommodate some of Colorado’s foundational needs. The project(s) scope includes increased affordable housing, broadband expansion, behavioral health capacity, and child care services. The project work is specific to the utilization of the State’s unutilized and underutilized properties to develop, build, finance, operate, and maintain quality-cost effective public projects that provide economic and social value for Colorado.
She has served as the Deputy Chief Customer Officer for the Governor’s Office of Information Technology where she managed planning, and integration of technology strategies for the State of Colorado.
She has served as the Deputy Executive Director for the Colorado Department of Local Affairs where she oversaw budget, finance, communications, accounting, procurement, executive communications, public relations and outreach for the department. She was also in charge of operationalizing disaster recovery, housing, local government, board of assessment and appeals and property taxation for the State.
She also served as the States’s designee appointed by former Governor Hickenlooper as the Census 2020 Complete Count Committee Chair for the State of Colorado.
She has also worked for the State of Colorado focusing on major governmental policy issues such as financial literacy, marijuana business licensing, and driver’s vehicle license access for undocumented immigrants. Prior to joining State government, she worked at the Denver City Attorney’s Office.
Natriece holds a BA in Communications; Master of Arts in Sociology and a Master’s in Criminal Justice (MCJ) from the University of Colorado – Denver; and a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from Regis University.
Mr. Ebie is the CEO and founder of the Phoenix Infrastructure Group, an infrastructure investor based in Washington, DC. He has over fifteen years in infrastructure, municipal finance, and public-private partnerships investment banking and advisory experience. Phoenix, founded in 2015, is one of the few minority-owned infrastructure investor/developers in the United States, and is an investor in the Washington, DC Smart Streetlights System, Charlotte Gateway Train Station, among other regional-defining infrastructure projects.
Prior to founding Phoenix, Mr. Ebie has served as an investment banker and financial advisor on both innovative public-private partnerships (P3s) for transportation, energy social and infrastructure projects across the United States, in projects totaling over $8 billion. Mr. Ebie has also advised commercial, federal, state, and local agencies on developing programs designed towards the analysis and procurement of P3s.
Mr. Ebie holds an undergraduate degree from Duke University, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and an JD from Tulane Law School.
Jim is a Principal at Rebel, where he focuses on advising federal, state, and local government and private sector entities on the funding, financing, procurement and operation of infrastructure assets. His experience includes Public-Private Partnerships (P3), project financings, municipal financings, project prioritization, benefit-cost analysis, and long-term funding analysis, particularly in the transportation, energy, and social infrastructure (government facilities) sectors. He has over 30 years of experience in US municipal finance, project finance, and management consulting as a financial advisor, investment banker, derivatives marketer, and management consultant. Recently, Jim has worked on transactions and projects for the Miami-Dade Beach Corridor, the University of Houston at Sugar Land, Howard County, MD, and the Clackamas County Courthouse P3, which won the 2022 IJ Global Social Infrastructure P3 Deal of the Year.
As editor for the Infralogic Americas team, Jonathan Carmody is responsible for delivering proprietary information on project finance, fundraising and M&A situations across the North, Latin America and the Caribbean regions.
Jonathan joined Infralogic in February 2014 and is responsible for driving the American content to ensure that our coverage in the region stays focused and up to date.