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Session 22: The New Politics of Transportation Financing
Sponsor: TTX Company
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Maia Pykina
TTX Company
Maia Pykina is Manager of Forecasting and Planning at TTX Company. Her specialties include intermodal Forecasting, Rail Volume Forecasting, Strategic Planning, and Economic and Industry Analysis.
She holds an M.S. from the University of Denver in Intermodal Transportation, an M.B.A. from Loyola University of Chicago, and a B.S. from Volgogradskij Gosudarstvennyj Universitet.
C. Kenneth Orski
Transportation NewsBriefs
C. Kenneth Orski is editor and publisher of Innovation NewsBriefs, an influential and widely read transportation newsletter, now in its 19th year of publication. Mr. Orski has worked professionally in the field of transportation for close to 40 years. He served as Associate Administrator of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration under President Nixon and President Ford and, after leaving government, founded a transportation consultancy counseling private clients and agencies in federal, state and local government. He has served on numerous state and federal transportation advisory bodies including, most recently, the Blue Ribbon Panel of the congressionally-chartered National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Commission. Earlier in his career, he served as an executive of the General Dynamics Corporation and a senior officer in the United States Foreign Service. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and holds a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.
Susan Binder
National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission
On May 24, 1998, Susan Binder became Director, Office of Legislative and Governmental Affairs. She also serves as Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy and Governmental Affairs, the senior career staff in the policy capacity for FHWA. In those positions, she directs a multi-disciplinary staff in the development and analyzes of alternative Federal-aid highway programs, policies, and legislative proposals; manages the development of FHWA’s national strategic planning initiatives; and conducts Congressional and government relations activities. Prior to this appointment, she was FHWA’s Maryland Division Administrator, responsible for leading the Federal-aid highway program in the State of Maryland. From January 4, 2001 until June 2, 2002, while continuing in her duties as Director of Legislative and Governmental Affairs, she simultaneously served as Associate Administrator/Director of Policy as well as Director of International Programs. She is a recognized expert in highway finance and economics.
Concurrently, she is serving as the Executive Director of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission. In that role, she leads a multi-modal staff in support of this 12-person Congressionally mandated Commission that is chaired by the Secretary of Transportation. She is responsible for policy, logistical, budgetary, and communications concerns as the Commission deliberates upon its advice to the Congress on fugue surface transportation policy and programs. She directs preparation of its report to Congress.
Susan joined the USDOT in 1975 as a Departmental Transportation Management Intern, working across the modes and in the Office of the Secretary in various capacities. Upon appointment to FHWA, she held various positions including Chief of the Industry and Economic Analysis Branch. There she created and led a research program to address the relationship between highway investment and the vitality of the national economy and served as U.S. Chair of the NAFTA standards harmonization dealing with truck size and weight issues. During her tenure in FHWA, she also served in several assignments outside the Agency, including a LEGIS Fellowship as professional staff for the House Public Works and Transportation Committee during the development of ISTEA and a detail to the Office of Management and Budget. Prior to joining DOT, she held positions at the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Wholesale Price Index.
She has received numerous performance and honor awards, including the Presidential Meritorious Executive Rank Award, the Secretary of Transportation’s Award for Meritorious Achievement, the Senior Executive Service Special Achievement Award, the Lester P. Lamm Award for outstanding public servants, and the Administrator’s Awards for Special Achievement and Unusually Outstanding Performance. Her education includes a BS in Consumer Economics from the University of Maryland and an MBA, with concentration in Transportation, from George Washington University. Married to Michael Binder, she is the mother of two sons now pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Theodore Prince
Consolidated Chassis Management, LLC
Mr. Prince is President, Consolidated Chassis Management, LLC. CCM was formed in 2005 to develop and own chassis pools. It currently has over 60,000 chassis under management at pools in Denver, Salt Lake City, Tampa, Memphis, Nashville, Savannah, Charlotte, Charleston, Jacksonville, and Atlanta. CCM is an affiliate of the Ocean Carrier Equipment Management Association, Inc., an association of 19 major international ocean carriers
Mr. Prince has spent his career of over 25 years in the transportation industry. He was formerly Vice President of Intermodal and International for Kansas City Southern. He was previously Chief Operating Officer, responsible for the management and profitability of “K” Line’s North American trades. He was with “K” Line America for ten years. Prior to that, he was with Conrail and its motor carrier subsidiary for nine years.
Mr. Prince also has extensive experience in the information technology sector – as both a user and provider. He spent five years as Senior Vice President for Optimization Alternatives Limited, which develops and deploys large-scale control and decision support systems that manage the day-to-day operations of major international railroads.
Over the years, Mr. Prince has provided consulting and expert testimony for a variety of customers, carriers, transportation intermediaries and eCommerce providers. Engagements included supply chain improvement, eCommerce applications and acquisition support.
Mr. Prince is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, which awarded him a Bachelor of Science in Economics. He also received his Master of Science in Transportation from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 1990. His thesis, Double Stack Transportation as a Means to Domestic Containerization, served as a business plan to increase domestic business by 300% in two years.
Mr. Prince is active in many industry organizations. He is Chairman of the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) and was a member of the Eno Transportation Foundation Board of Advisors. A frequent lecturer at universities, he is Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Denver University’s Intermodal Transportation Institute (ITI.) He is also on the Business Advisory Council for Northwestern University’s Transportation Center and the Global Maritime and Transportation School (GMATS) at the United States Merchant Marine Academy.
A firm believer in public-private partnerships, Mr. Prince has participated in numerous advisory roles for the public sector. He is currently the Intermodal Vice Chairman for the US Department of Transportation’s Maritime Transportation System National Advisory Council (MTSNAC.)
His column, Moving Right Along, appears monthly in the Journal of Commerce.
He is married to the former Sara Ziegler, and has two children, Carol (16) and Kiper (14.)
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