EIP’s Coalition of the Committed grew with 17 new signatories to the EIP Pledge, bringing our coalition to 91 leading heads of transit authorities, airports, ports, water districts, engineering, financial, and construction firms from across the country – – representing hundreds of billions of dollars of power to improve people’s lives.
Our new signatories and a large contingent of supporters gathered in the Bay Area, hosted by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) in the entry hall to the Milpitas Transit Center. We are deeply grateful for the very hard work and expertise they extended to EIP in hosting this event.
Signing the Pledge were:
- Sergio Lopez, Chair, Valley Transportation Authority
- Bob Powers, General Manager, BART
- Paul Pendergast, President, BUILD IT
- Michelle Bouchard, Executive Director, Caltrain
- DeNise Blake, President, COMTO-Northern California Chapter
- Kathleen Kelly, Interim General Manager, Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District
- Alan Salazar, CEO/Manager, Denver Water
- Denis Mulligan, GM/CEO, Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District
- Alix Bockelman, Chief Deputy Executive Director, Metropolitan Transportation Committee
- Carmen Montano, Mayor, City of Milpitas
- April Chan, General Manager/CEO, SamTrans
- Tilly Chang, Executive Director, San Francisco County Transportation Authority
- Mike Nakornkhet, Airport Director, San Francisco International Airport
- Julie Kirschbaum, Acting Director of Transportation, SFMTA
- Schatzie Allen Jefferson, President, The Allen Group
- Shima Mirzaei, Chief Financial Officer, Transbay Joint Powers Authority
- Seamus Murphy, Executive Director, San Francisco Bay Ferry
California is home to many of the nation’s largest infrastructure entities and projects, and this latest round of signings expands our California Plan initiative to 34.
These are trying and changing times, but EIP represents a path forward. At its core, EIP is an economic development organization, because when we are intentional about prime, joint venture, and equity participation opportunities for historically underutilized businesses, we put people to work, and we grow businesses and community wealth. What we are rallying people around is leveraging infrastructure investments into investments in people’s financial security, and we could not do that without your support.
Thank you for all that you do.
