We are sending this note from Seattle, where six tremendous leaders just signed the Equity In Infrastructure Pledge, bringing our Coalition of the Committed to 74!
Signing the Pledge during a ceremony at Seattle’s historic Union Station were:
- Dow Constantine, Executive, King County, Washington
- Bruce Harrell, Mayor, City of Seattle
- Goran Sparrman, Chief Executive Officer, Sound Transit
- Steve Metruck, Executive Director, Port of Seattle
- Ric Ilgenfritz, Chief Executive Officer, Community Transit
- Michael Smith, Regional President, Americas, Hill International
Other speakers/key attendees included:
- Veronica Vanterpool, Acting Administrator, Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
- Roger Millar, Secretary of Transportation, State of Washington (Previous EIP Signatory)
- Terri Mestas, Deputy CEO, Sound Transit
- Rob Slimp, Chairman & CEO, HNTB (Previous EIP Signatory)
- Greg Kelly, CEO, STV (Previous EIP Signatory)
- Terra Vanandel, Director of Procurement, Port of Long Beach (Previous EIP Signatory)
- Jon Porterfield, Executive Vice President, Northwest Region, Anser Advisory, now a part of Accenture (Previous EIP Signatory)
- Marvin Thomas, Board Chair/Northwest Region Director, HW Lochner (Triunity Engineering) (Previous EIP Signatory)
- Stuart Sunshine, Senior Vice President, National Director of Government Affairs - U.S. Region, WSP USA (Previous EIP Signatory)
- Peter Aarons, Aviation Sector Leader, Americas, TYLin (Previous EIP Signatory)
- Chris Killian, Senior Vice President, Turner Construction (Previous EIP Signatory)
- Paul Pendergast, Founder, BuildOut
- Phillip A. Washington, CEO, Denver International Airport/Co-Chair, EIP
- John D. Porcari, Former U.S. Deputy Transportation Secretary/Co-Chair, EIP
- Rick Jacobs, Co-Chair, EIP
- Diana Mendes, Corporate President for Infrastructure & Mobility Equity, HNTB/Chair, EIP Advisory Council
The ceremony was held on the eve of the opening of Sound Transit’s Lynnwood Link Extension light rail line and comes on the heels of EIP’s tremendous event in Chicago, which welcomed nine new Pledge signers:
- Leanne Redden, Executive Director, Regional Transportation Authority
- Jim Derwinski, Chief Executive Officer/Executive Director, Metra
- Cassaundra Rouse, Executive Director, Illinois Tollway
- Peter Davoren, President & Chief Executive Officer, Turner Construction Company
- James Reynolds, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Loop Capital
- Joseph Sczurko, U.S. Region President, WSP
- Mark Fialkowski, President, Infrastructure North America, Parsons Corporation
- Christopher Martel, Senior Vice President & North Area Leader for Transportation Services, CDM Smith
- Daniel Drew, Vice President, Central Area & Sector Manager, TYLin
EIP continues to build momentum behind our mission to build generational wealth and reduce the racial wealth gap by improving public infrastructure contracting practices to create more prime, joint venture and equity contracting opportunities for Historically Underutilized Businesses (HUBs).
Providing these opportunities also creates more competition, reducing costs to public agencies and allowing them to drive more value from their infrastructure dollars – and our coalition represents hundreds of billions of dollars of power to improve people’s lives.
Thank you for all of your support in our work to make sure investments in infrastructure projects are focused on lifting people up.
