Managing Director
Chris Kane
Chris Kane, P.E., J.D., is Founder and President of P3 Collaborative, LLC. He specializes in multi-disciplinary development and implementation of alternative delivery and public private partnerships agreements. His broad experience includes water, transportation, energy and buildings projects. Chris is a licensed engineer with a law degree and an experienced mediator with more than 40 years of experience in the engineering, construction and environmental industries. His project experience has included successful negotiation of integrated agreements to design, build, finance, operate and maintain infrastructure for over $10 billion in capital programs. Projects include co-lead negotiator on the $1.7 billion Dulles Metrorail (Silverline) Phase 1 P3 contract, a $270 million design-build-finance contract for a wastewater treatment plant in Canada, counsel to the $1.5 billion Hudson Bergen Light Rail DBOM project, and a $250 million construct-finance toll road project in the U.S.
Chris received his Juris Doctor from George Washington University and his undergraduate Bachelor Degree in engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He served 5 years in the military as a Construction Officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and later worked as a project manager, manager of contracts, business executive, and legal advisor for top industry E&C companies and representing public owner clients. He has extensive experience dealing with collaborative methods of dispute resolution both as a neutral and advocate including providing advisory opinions, structured negotiations, mediations, facilitations, and consensus building. He has successfully resolved many technically complicated environmental and construction disputes.
Project Delivery Expert, Infrastructure
Ben Redd
Ben Redd has made a career out of the ability to structure, initiate and manage large scale and complex projects in both the public infrastructure as well as private industrial sectors. His expertise includes complex development of energy as well as transportation infrastructure using innovative methods of integrated project delivery. On many occasions, he successfully turned around troubled projects in both public and private settings. Mr. Redd began his career with United Engineers & Constructors (a legacy company of Raytheon Engineers & Constructors). Mr. Redd graduated with distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering. He served in the US Navy Nuclear Power Submarine program, including several Polaris Patrols during the Cold War period.
Mr. Redd has provided advisory services and put together project organizations to develop and structure many large-scale transportation projects, most notably for the City of Ottawa for the Ottawa Light Rail Transit Project. In addition, as President & CEO of Raytheon Infrastructure Inc, Mr. Redd was responsible for procurement and management of the $1.5B Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit Project, design-build-operate-maintain (DBOM) project, which today continues to set performance records in its 20th year of operation for NJ Transit. Mr. Redd was also the originator and first President of Dulles Transit Partners, a special purpose entity formed to develop a P3 approach under Virginia’s PPTA Statute, to extend the WMATA Silverline to Dulles Airport.
Ernest Brown
Ernest C. Brown, P.E., J.D. serves as P3 Advisor, D/B Counsel, Mediator & Arbitrator with 40 years of broad industry experience. Brown studied Civil & Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and received his master’s degree in Construction Management and a Law Degree with distinction from the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of “Citizen’s Guide to P3 Projects: A Legal Primer to Public Private Partnerships” (2020). He is licensed to practice civil engineering, geotechnical engineering, and land surveying. In addition to this book, he also authored “California Infrastructure Projects: Legal Aspects of Building in the Gold State”.
He served as Corporate Counsel for the Fluor Corporation and as a construction and real estate partner in several large law firms. In 1989, he founded Ernest Brown & Company, which specializes in construction law and dispute resolution based in San Francisco. He has serviced as Owner’s Counsel for the design and construction of the $300M John Wayne Airport and the $100M Honda Center, as well as counsel for the $300M Carquinez Suspension Bridge. He served as Joint Venture Counsel for the $1.2B Presidio Parkway P3 Project and for the $500M Oakland Airport Connector Project.
Brown currently serves as Chair of the P3 Working Group for ConsensusDocs. To learn more, please visit www.ernestbrown.com
Senior Advisor
Julie Earnest
Julie Earnest, P.E., J.D., has spent 35 years in the engineering and construction industry, initially as a professional engineer and then as an attorney. She is currently a Construction Panel member with the American Arbitration Association and is supporting a Boulder, Colorado law firm as Special counsel providing legal counsel to its construction clients. Prior to her current roles, she acted as in-house counsel for a construction division of AECOM for eleven years where she supported commercial teams in the pursuit, award, and implementation of infrastructure and industrial projects.
Julie has advised owners, developers, general contractors, and subcontractors in contract negotiations and claims. She has negotiated various types of commercial and construction agreements in the transportation, infrastructure, power, industrial, and oil and gas markets valued from small amounts up to multiple hundreds of millions of dollars. She has drafting and negotiation expertise with numerous forms of agreements including construction, construction management, design, design-build, private public partnership, shareholder, limited liability, joint venture, teaming, settlement, leasing, business and real estate acquisition, and consulting agreements. Julie received her Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from Purdue University, Master of Business Administration from Keller Graduate School of Management, and Juris Doctorate from the University of Colorado.
Project Delivery Expert, Water
David Herer
David Herer has over 40 years of design and construction of water and waste water projects across U.S and Canada. He received his MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering and BS, Chemical Engineering University of Maine. Mr. Herer is former Director of the AECOM’s North American Water Design-Build business unit following many years been the unit’s Commercial and Risk Manager. As Vice President and Director at AECOM, Mr. Herer actively developed, managed and directed all structures of water project delivery including Design-Build (DB), Progressive DB, DB-Operate and DB-Finance water projects for municipal, private and industrial customers ranging from $20 – $250 million in contract value with representative projects listed below.
Dave had commercial and contract responsibility for project such as: City of Rialto, Wastewater Treatment Plant, CA; City Stockton, Wastewater Treatment Plant, CA.; City of Woonsocket, Water Treatment Plant, RI.; Capital Regional District, Waste Water Treatment Plant, Victoria, BC; City of Davis, Wastewater Treatment Plant Secondary and Tertiary Improvements, CA.; City of Holyoke, Combined Sewer Overflow Treatment System, Holyoke, MA; City of Hialeah, Brackish Water Reverse Osmosis Treatment Facility, FL; Seminole Tribe of Florida, Reservations – Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants, FL; General Electric, Wastewater Treatment Facilities, Lynn, MA; Hookset, NH; and Durham, NC; Florida Power & Light Co., Tertiary Treatment System, Johnston, Rhode Island; AES Corporation, Pump Station and Pipeline System, Londonderry, New Hampshire.
Project Delivery Expert, Finance
Michael Tran
Michael Tran is a Principal and Owner of Bluebird Advisors LLC with years of experience in infrastructure, finance, and economic development. He has worked extensively with state and local governments in the US and in emerging markets to structure public-private partnerships and real estate transactions. Mr. Tran’s expertise is in economic and value-for-money analysis, financial modeling, commercial and financial negotiations, budgeting and planning, and risk transfer through innovative contractual structures. He has advised senior management in large transportation agencies across the US to manage and implement strategic projects. Michael has a passion for finding innovative ways to finance and deliver public infrastructure.
Mr. Tran’s professional experience includes management roles at KPMG Infrastructure Advisory, the World Bank, and Castalia Strategic Advisors. Michael has advised public and private sector clients on transactions in infrastructure of over $5 billion regarding procurement, financial analysis and modeling, investment appraisal, alternative delivery and P3s, and commercial and financial structuring of projects to reach commercial and financial close. Current and past engagements include California High-Speed Rail Authority, Amtrak, City of New Orleans, TxDOT, Colorado DOT, private equity clients, and the World Bank. He received a B.S. Mathematics, U.Mass. at Amherst and his MA International Relations and Economics, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He has had FINRA Series 79 and 63 (inactive).
Senior Advisor, Real Estate
Alan Di Sciullo
Alan Di Sciullo, Esq. has over 40 years of experience in law, real estate and finance. He has been a Senior Vice President with a major global banking organization working on its corporate real estate merger and acquisitions activities and Director of Global Real Estate at a global law firm. He was previously First Vice President and Senior Counsel at Morgan Stanley where he was responsible for its real estate transactions and related litigation. His transactions included the largest leases at the original World Trade Center totaling over 1.2 million sf and the claims and relocations following the 1993 bombing of an 9/11 attack on the Towers, the development of the 600,000 sf Discover Card Headquarters in Riverwoods, Il., and over 200,000 sf for Dean Witter Trust’s headquarters in Harborside Plaza, Jersey City, NJ.
Mr. Di Sciullo has been active in civic and professional activities. He was elected a fellow of the American College of Real Estates Lawyers (ACREL) in 2003. He chaired the West Windsor Planning Board between 1993 and 1997 and received numerous leadership and planning awards in that position. He served as a director on the New Jersey Planning Officials board from 1996 to 2014. Mr. Di Sciullo is a co-author of a treatise Negotiating and Drafting Office Leases (Law Journal Seminars-Press 1995). He is an adjunct Professor at New York University’s Schack Master’s in Real Estate program where he has taught for 25. Mr. Di Sciullo has an undergraduate degree in Government and Economics (cum laude) from Georgetown University, his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center in law, and an M.B.A. in finance from New York University.
Project Delivery Expert, Transit
Frank Russo
Frank Russo P.E., is a registered professional engineer with more than 35 years experience in the transportation industry. He has held responsible positions in public agencies and private corporation. Mr. Russo has directed the development and implementation of 4 world class transportation projects with a combined value in excess of $8.0B, including the first design-build-operate-maintain (DBOM) rail transit contract in the United States. His experience covers nearly every mode of public transportation, including light rail, streetcar, commuter rail, rail rapid transit, and bus rapid transit. He was an advisor to the FTA on their Public Private Partnership Pilot Program and to Congress on the Public Private provisions of SAFETEA-LU.
Mr. Russo led the development and implementation for the public sector, of the $1.5B Hudson Bergen Light Rail System (HBLRT) for New Jersey Transit. The HBLRT project was the first, and still the most successful, public private light rail system in North America. The project was delivered precisely on time and on budget, and has operated to the highest standards of quality, availability and safety since April, 2000. The HBLRT System continues to set ridership records each year, and has been the catalyst for the revitalization of the New Jersey Hudson River Waterfront. He was also responsible for a number of other large transportation projects, including the Southern New Jersey Light Rail System and most recently the “Metro Solutions” program, Houston Metro’s $2B regional expansion plan.
Senior Advisor
Robert Rizzieri
Robert Rizzieri is an accomplished versatile Senior Executive with demonstrated successful results on highly complex, and high profile National and International multibillion-dollar projects/programs. He successfully led large dispersed teams comprised of Private Firms, State and Federal Agencies, NGOs, and Foreign Governments. Robert completed his career with USACE, as the Deputy Chief Engineering & Construction, Headquarters USACE: where he shared responsibility with the Chief of E&C for planning, programing, policy and execution of USACE’s worldwide E&C missions (over 17,000 professionals). His E&C activities covered Civil Works, Military Programs, Environmental for Army, Air Force, DOD agencies, Federal Agencies and Foreign Governments that exceed $25B. As Co-chair of USACE’s enterprise Sustainability Committee, he led the establishment of significant policies for enterprise operations of over $35 billion/year to incorporate the needed level of sustainability practices into daily operations and planning. He also led civil works policy revisions that allowed the St. Paul District to be a partner with Fargo, ND’s private-public-partnership infrastructure solution to annual flooding.
Robert’s wide spectrum of expertise allows him to provide Infrastructure Advisory Services for Federal & State Agencies, Owners, Contractors & Architect/Engineering Firms. His advisory services include: Infrastructure (including Water) & Facilities Acquisition Strategies, Design-Build and DBIA training; Project Delivery Strategies, P3 & Mega Programs planning & oversight framework; Partnering & Dispute Resolution Strategies; Sustainability and Climate Resilience of Cities, Facilities & Infrastructure to mitigate effects of Climate Change. Through-out his USACE career, Robert was a leading proponent of Design-Build and significantly contributed to DBIA’s “D-B Done Wright for Federal Marketplace”. He is currently a member of the Federal Markets Committee and a DBIA certified instructor. Robert guided the issuance of the USACE’s enterprise resilience roadmap, which laid out how USACE’s actions, projects and or systems support community resilience of climate change while increasing resilience of water and military projects and operations within authorized authorities.
Senior Advisor, Energy Development
Leonard (Len) Dorr
Len previously worked as a Senior Vice President and sector lead for the Energy Business Line at AECOM a global engineering construction company. Len’s focus was on decarbonization, Energy as a Service (EaaS) solutions and District Energy development. He has over 30years of experience in the development of complex renewable energy projects in the regulated and deregulated energy industry in the United States, United Kingdom and globally. He has specific experience in renewable energy project development consisting of integrated technical, financial, and regulatory aspects to bring them to fruition. He was the lead for assembling the design build team that successfully bid, designed, and built the award winning National Western Center District Energy system in Denver Colorado. He has provided development advice and due diligence to owners and investors for over $ 30 Billion of energy project investments globally.