TTI Advisory Council

Updated April 2022

Gayle Akins
PMO Director and Austin Site Leader, Neology Inc.
Austin, Texas

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
Co-Founder and President, Advancing Women in Aviation Roundtable (AWAR)
Coppell, Texas

Esperanza “Hope” Andrade
Chair, VIA Metropolitan Transit Board of Directors
San Antonio, Texas

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

Michael Behrens
Director, National Transportation Programs, Michael Baker Corporation
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

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 LLP
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

Mike Heiligenstein
Executive Director, Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority
Austin, Texas

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

Jungus Jordan
Former City Councilman
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

James McCarley
Principal, James McCarley Consultants
Dallas, Texas

Drayton McLane Jr.
Chairman, McLane Group
Temple, Texas

Gregg Mitchell
Chairman, Trinity Logistics, Inc.
Dallas, Texas

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

Phil Ritter
Chief Operating Officer, Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
Dallas, Texas

Sandra Phillips Rogers
Group Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Legal Officer, and Corporate Secretary, Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
Dallas, Texas

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

Robert Spillar
Transportation Director, City of Austin
Austin, Texas

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

Kirk Watson
Founding Dean, University of Houston Hobby School of Public Affairs
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