P3s: The Ins and Outs of Public Private Partnerships

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Speaker Biographies

Tom W. Pelnik III is a Managing Director of Ernst & Young Infrastructure Advisors, LLC in Washington D.C. Mr. Pelnik has 30-years of progressively responsible experience in the development of civil and industrial infrastructure, culminating in executive leadership of the development of public-private partnerships and design-build delivery of major civil infrastructure projects. He started and built a division that successfully procured more than $4 billion of P3 and design-build contracts as a public official with

the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), including the I495 Express Lanes P3 which has been in operation since 2011. Mr. Pelnik joined EYIA in April of 2015 from ACS Infrastructure Development, Inc., the U.S. equity investment arm of Grupo ACS, a $50 billion international construction group. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia and a MSRB Municipal Advisor Representative (Series 50).

Contact Mr. Pelnik at (202) 327-7599 or tom.pelnik@ey.com.

Brian Andrews is the Assistant Director of the Real Estate Research Institute in the Department of Finance at LSU’s E. J. Ourso College of Business. He is also a member of the Urban Land Institute and serves on the Management Committee of the ULI Louisiana District. Andrews is a frequent lecturer to business and industry and works closely with LSU’s Executive Education group

providing custom training to companies seeking adult education for employees.

Contact Mr. Andrews at (225) 578-6291 or andrews@lsu.edu

John G. Davies has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation since June 1988. The Baton Rouge Area Foundation is a community foundation that serves Southern Louisiana. During his 28-year tenure, the Foundation has grown from $5 million to more than $600 million in assets. Over 52 years, the Foundation has granted more than $500 million to fund nonprofits and to pay for civic improvement projects.

During the past 16 years, the Foundation has collaborated to spark the revitalization of downtown Baton Rouge and revive neglected areas of the city. It raised and granted more than $45 million for rebuilding a stronger South Louisiana after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. After the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, the Foundation made grants from a $100 million BP gift to deepwater rig workers who were suffering financial hardship.

Under John’s leadership, the Foundation created The Water Institute of the Gulf, a scientific institution responsible for generating unassailable science that will guide the restoration and protection of the Louisiana coast. John leads a development team that is constructing a 35-acre, 1.8 million-square-foot Water Campus to house The Water Institute and other scientific organizations focused on deltaic issues, along with the engineering and construction companies that will assist in implementing Louisiana’s $50 billion coastal protection and restoration plan.

Contact Mr. Davies through his administrative assistant, Emmy Martin Comeaux, at ecomeaux@braf.org, or (225) 387-6126

Christopher Ferrari is a Principal and P3 Leader for Development Programs at CSRS, Inc. He has more than 12 years of experience managing roughly $1 billion in projects delivered throughout the U.S. His experience and comprehensive expertise provide Mr. Ferrari the ability to provide end-to-end consulting and representation on projects of any type and size. Since joining CSRS in 2009, Mr. Ferrari has established a consistent track record of success that goes beyond the fundamentals of management, to

ensure on-time, on-budget project delivery. Through strong client partnerships with robust communication and an understanding of each client’s business, he ensures that projects are on-target and aligned with the client’s goals.

Contact Mr. Ferrari at (225) 761-3659 or chris.ferrari@csrsinc.com

Taylor Gravois is a principal and economic development practice lead at CSRS, Inc. He is a licensed Civil Engineer, Land Surveyor, and Project Management Professional with 18 years of experience in performing site selection, site due diligence, and land development project delivery for both large and small facilities, economic development, and infrastructure projects. He works with local governments, private developers, large corporations, and economic development organizations in support of developing site infrastructure and land development projects. Mr. Gravois possesses an in-depth understanding of the

engineering processes associated with land development and applies this knowledge to every project endeavor for maximum results.

Mr. Gravois has a broad array of experience from overseeing surveys of raw land, detailed design, construction administration, contract closeout, to every phase of the development process. With significant development, engineering, land surveying, and project management experience and expertise, he is uniquely qualified to understand and meet each client’s needs.

Contact Mr. Gravois at (225) 761-3627 or taylor.gravois@csrsinc.com

Donovan Hicks is Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of Provident Resources Group. Mr. Hicks has been a member of the Provident senior management team since 2001 and is responsible for overseeing legal, tax, and corporate compliance issues for Provident and its subsidiaries and affiliates, and the acquisition, financing and development of new properties in furtherance of Provident's charitable activities.

Over the past decade, Provident has collaborated with several colleges and universities in various P3 structured financings to provide more than $1.5 billion in capital improvement projects designed to address a variety of infrastructure and programming needs, including

housing, dining halls, structured parking, recreation and wellness centers, office and retail space.

To date, Provident has developed facilities providing more than 13,000 beds of student housing for the benefit of its college and university partners.

Contact Mr. Hicks at (225) 766-3977, x2383 or dohicks@provident.org

Charles Landry is a partner in Fishman Haygood, LLP and a member of its Business Section. Charles concentrates his practice in the areas of real estate development, real estate finance, land use and zoning. He has represented numerous parties in a wide range of real estate transactions, which included residential developments, specifically Traditional Neighborhood Developments, office buildings, regional shopping malls and shopping centers, higher education housing projects, hotels,

hospitals, medical and research facilities, golf course communities, and industrial developments.

Charles is a leading expert in public private partnership in Louisiana having represented parties in numerous complex projects. He is lead counsel on the $1 billion Water Campus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is also widely recognized as one of the leading land use attorneys in Louisiana.

He has been a frequent lecturer at Louisiana State University’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center and numerous continuing education seminars on the subjects of complex real estate transactions, title examination, land use planning, real estate workouts, public private partnerships and Economic Development Districts.

Contact Mr. Landry at (225) 706-4080 or clandry@fishmanhaygood.com

Dr. Jared Llorens is the Texas Tiger Tournament/Greater Houston Alumni Association Developing Scholar Professor in the E. J. Ourso College

of Business Administration and currently serves at the Director of the Public Administration Institute.

The mission of the Public Administration Institute is to: (1) prepare talented and diverse Master of Public Administration students to manage and lead public, nonprofit, and private sector organizations and programs by providing them with the highest quality graduate education and ensuring they receive the specific competencies, knowledge, skills, and values that are essential for ethical, accountable, and effective practice; (2) conduct cutting-edge scholarship consistent with the excellence embodied in the Research I ranking of Louisiana State University and enhance the Institute's reputation for prominence in scholarly research; (3) establish relationships with the governance and practitioner environment that foster a professional focus to public administration, and provide expertise to public, nonprofit, and private organizations that contribute solutions to the public challenges of our times.

Contact Dr. Llorens at (225) 578-0936 or jared1@lsu.edu.

Tony S. Lombardo P.E. serves as Associate Vice President for Facility and Property Oversight. His areas of responsibility are the capital planning process and facilities related board items for the Louisiana State University Campus’. Mr. Lombardo functions as an advisor to senior leadership on facility optimization, financial impact and facility policy that directly relates to the mission. He also serves as the facilities officer for the A&M campus, responsible for the oversight of maintenance, facility operations, utility production and acquisition, construction and design. He is a licensed

professional engineer in the state of Louisiana. Prior to his 20 years with the University, Mr. Lombardo conducted environmental research for the US Environmental Protection Agency as a consulting professional.

Mr. Lombardo received his bachelor’s degree in engineering from Louisiana State University in 1990 while concurrently acting as owner and operator of a small IT services company.

Contact Mr. Lombardo at (225)

James “Jimmy” Maurin is Chairman of LSU Real Estate Facilities Foundation and is one of the founders of Stirling Properties, having served as its Chairman from 1992 thru 2012. His professional and civic activities include:

Urban Land Institute (ULI): Past Chairman, ULI Louisiana District Council. Member of the ULI Small Scale Development Council.

International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC): Member of its Board of Trustees and PAC. He served as Chairman of ICSC for the 2004-2005 term. He has also received ICSC’s professional designation of Certified Shopping Center Manager (CSM) and Certified Shopping Center Executive (CRX).

Louisiana State University: Past Chairman of the Tiger Athletic Foundation (TAF); Chairman of LSU’s Real Estate Facilities Foundation; Member of the LSU Foundation; Member, LSU College of Business Dean’s Advisory Council. Founding Member, Executive Committee, LSU Flagship Coalition. LSU Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, 2015.

Contact Mr. Maurin at (985) 246-3712 or jmaurin@stirlingprop.com

Dr. Thomas J. Phillips Jr, CPA is the Department Chair in the Department of Accounting and holds the Thomas H. Daigre Endowed Chair of Business Administration. His academic research includes The Accounting Review, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Accounting, Organizations & Society, and others, as well as professional journals such as the Journal of Accountancy and The CPA Journal. Phillips is a past President of the Society of Louisiana Certified Public Accountants and has served on the American Institute of CPAs Council.

Dr. Phillips received his BSBA Accounting from the University of Louisiana – Lafayette, his MS Accounting from Louisiana State University and his PhD in Accounting from Georgia State University.

Contact Dr. Phillips at (225) 578-6202 or tphillips@lsu.edu

Dr. James A. Richardson is John Rhea Alumni Professor of Economics and Public Administration in the E. J. Ourso College of Business Administration. He has served as Director of the Public Administration Institute, Chairman of the Department of Economics, Acting Dean

of the College of Business Administration, and Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at LSU.

Dr. Richardson has served since 1987 as the private economist on the Louisiana Revenue Estimating Conference, the panel with the constitutional authority and responsibility to provide official revenue estimates for the state. He served as co-chair of the Task Force for Structural Change in Budget and Tax Policy created by the Louisiana Legislature and serves as a member of the Restore Task Force as appointed by the Governor after the floods of 2016.

Dr. Richardson received his bachelors of art in economics from St. Mary’s University of San Antonio, Texas and his Master’s degree in economics and the doctorate in economics from The University of Michigan. Dr. Richardson specializes in regional forecasting, state and local tax policy, economic development, and public policy.

Contact Dr. Richardson at (225) 578-6745 or parich@lsu.edu

Dr. Dek Terrell holds the Freeport-McMoRan Endowed Chair of Economics and is the Executive Director of the Economics & Policy Research Group. He joined LSU in 1996 after receiving his Ph.D. at Duke University and spending five years at Kansas State University. Dr. Terrell co-authored three volumes in the Advances in Econometrics Series and has published in leading academic journals such as Economic Journal, Journal of Law and Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics.

The LSU Economics & Policy Research Group is an applied economics research group based in the Department of Economics with full-time faculty and staff dedicated to externally funded applied economics research on topics including economic development, labor, health, and the environment. The EPRG use economic principles and state-of-the-art methods to inform public policy and business decisions, providing in-depth analysis to address real-world problems at the intersection of economics and policy.

Research sponsors include state and federal government as well as non-governmental organizations and industry associations. Projects include economic impact studies, program evaluations, economic forecasting, and a broad range of economics research assessing the impact of potential policies. EPRG faculty have experience collecting and analyzing survey data, working with confidential or proprietary data maintained by research sponsors, as well as development of new hybrid methods that can supplement existing data sources with new primary data collected to answer specific questions.

Contact Dr. Terrell at (225) 578-3785 or mdterre@lsu.edu

On April 1, 2014, Dr. Richard D. White Jr., became the eighth dean of the E. J. Ourso College of Business. During White’s deanship, the college has continued to build upon its reputation as a world-class research institution that prepares exceptional students to become the business leaders and entrepreneurs of the future.

A native of Williamsburg, Virginia, White received his PhD from Pennsylvania State University, MBA from Purdue University, and BA from Old Dominion College. He was a Research Fellow at Harvard University where he taught a public policy seminar within

Harvard’s Institute of Politics. White is a Pulitzer-nominated political biographer and author of Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long; Roosevelt the Reformer: Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner, 1889-1895; and Will Rogers: A Political Life.

Contact Dr. White at (225) 578-5297 or experienceourso@lsu.edu

About the E. J. Ourso College of Business

While existing programs continue to evolve and improve, new initiatives ensure the E. J. Ourso College of Business is positioned to serve students and the business community. In fall 2017, the college’s Stephenson

Department of Entrepreneurship & Information Systems (SDEIS) welcomed the first class in its new Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurship degree program. This paired-degree can be combined with any of LSU’s undergraduate majors. The college’s Professional Sales Institute was named one of the 2016 top professional sales programs by the Sales Education Foundation. The undergraduate energy minor, available through the Department of Economics, gives students a competitive advantage when seeking work in the energy industry. The Master of Science in Analytics, offered through SDEIS in collaboration with the Department of Experimental Statistics and the Department of Marketing, prepares students to use data-driven methods to contribute to organizational effectiveness. The college redoubled efforts to ensure student success with the establishment of the Office of Business Student Success (OBSS). The office centralizes core support programs like academic counseling, career coaching, diversity and inclusion programs, and international study.

About the Urban Land Institute

ULI Louisiana is a District Council of the Urban Land Institute. District Councils are ULI at the local level, facilitating the exchange of ideas and the transmission of ULI best practices. ULI Louisiana has approximately 200 members, who come together at monthly luncheons and at other

events to share experiences and learn from each other.

ULI Louisiana’s work is essential to the responsible development of the Gulf Coast and the State as a whole. With expanded programming in Baton Rouge and Shreveport, ULI Louisiana brings regional networking opportunities, multi-disciplinary programs for our members, and an overall broader reach for impacting our community.

We are committed to delivering new levels of value and services to our growing membership, while reaching for new heights in educational, networking, and community-building programs.

Contact Katye Fayard, ULI Louisiana District Council Manager, at (843) 810-8808 or katye.fayard@uli.org.