TTI Advisory Council

Updated April 2023

Gayle Akins
PMO Director, Neology Inc.
Carlsbad, California

Steven Albright
Director of Government Affairs, Association of General Contractors of Texas
Austin, Texas

Bill Allaway
Principal, WHA Consulting
Austin, Texas

Al Alonzi
Texas Division Administrator, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Austin, Texas

Amelia Anderson
Treasurer, Co-founder & President Emeritus, Advancing Women in Aviation Roundtable (AWAR)
Coppell, Texas

Esperanza “Hope” Andrade
Co-Founder & Partner, GO RIO San Antonio River Cruises
San Antonio, Texas

Jeffrey Arndt
President and CEO, VIA Metropolitan Transit
San Antonio, Texas

Michael Behrens
Client Services Advisor, Volkert, Inc.
Yoakum, Texas

Rollin Bredenberg
Vice President, Capacity Planning and Operations Research, BNSF Railway (Retired)
Fort Worth, Texas

David Cain
President, David Cain Consulting
Dallas, Texas

Dan Chen
Vice President and General Manager, 3M Transportation Safety Division
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Dennis Christiansen
Director Emeritus, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
College Station, Texas

David Coatney
Director, Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service
College Station, Texas

Sergio Contreras
CEO, Atlas, Hall & Rodriguez LLP
McAllen, Texas

Chuck Ellison
Founder and Principal, The Ellison Firm, Attorneys at Law
College Station, Texas

Ed Emmett
Fellow in Energy and Transportation, Baker Institute for Public Policy & Senior Fellow at the Kinder Institute for Urban Research, and Social Sciences Professor in the Practice, Rice University
Houston, Texas

Edward Fernandes
Partner, King & Spalding
Houston/Austin, Texas

Zachary Grasley
Department Head, Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas

Roger Guenther
Executive Director, Port of Houston Authority
Houston, Texas

John Hall
President and Chief Executive Officer, Houston Area Research Center
The Woodlands, Texas

Mike Heiligenstein
Principal, Infrastructure Resource Group
Austin, Texas

Bob Jones
President and CEO, Jones Engineering Solutions, LLC
Houston, Texas

Jungus Jordan
Retired Finance and Logistics Executive
Fort Worth, Texas

Dimitris Lagoudas
Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Engineering Research, Texas A&M University System
Deputy Director, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
College Station, Texas

Thomas Lambert
President and CEO, Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO)
Houston, Texas

David Laney
Attorney, business and financial law
Dallas, Texas

Bob Lanham
President, Williams Brothers Construction Co., Inc.
Katy, Texas

Russell Laughlin
Executive Vice President, Hillwood Properties
Fort Worth, Texas

Carol Lewis
Professor and Director Emeritus, Center for Transportation Training and Research, Texas Southern University
Houston, Texas

Carlos Lopez
HNTB, Regional Business Development Leader
Austin, Texas

Charan Lota
Group Vice President and Executive Chief Engineer, Connected Technologies, Toyota Motor North America
Plano, Texas

Roger Nober
Executive Vice President, Law and Corporate Affairs, and Chief Legal Officer, BNSF Railway
Fort Worth, Texas

James McCarley
Principal, James McCarley Consultants
Dallas, Texas

Drayton McLane Jr.
Chairman, McLane Group
Temple, Texas

Herbert Richardson
Director Emeritus, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
College Station, Texas

Gerald Schwebel
Corporate Executive Vice President, International Bank of Commerce
Laredo, Texas

Pete Sepulveda, Jr.
Executive Director, Cameron County Regional Mobility Authority
Rancho Viejo, Texas

Gary Slagel
President and CEO, CapitalSoft, Inc.
Richardson, Texas

Robert Spillar
Senior Vice President, National Director of Smart Cities, STV
Austin, Texas

Oscar Trevino
President and Owner, O. Trevino Construction
North Richland Hills, Texas

Victor Vandergriff
Executive Director, Tarrant Regional Transportation Coalition
Fort Worth, Texas

Kirk Watson
Mayor, City of Austin
Austin, Texas

Jeff Williams
President and CEO, Graham Associates, Inc.
Arlington, Texas

Gregory Winfree
Director, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
College Station, Texas

Jennifer Woodard
Executive Vice President, Associated General Contractors of Texas
Austin, Texas