Raymond Di Prinzio Executive Director & Co-Head of Infrastructure, Global Structured Finance SMBC

Ray co-heads a team of bankers at SMBC responsible for originating, arranging financing and providing advisory services for a wide range of infrastructure projects in North America.

Ray has over 30 years of experience include project lending, investment banking and financial advisory for transportation, social infrastructure, environmental, energy generation, and telecommunication facilities. Highlighted financings include sole buy- side advisor on the acquisition of the A25 toll bridge concession (Montreal), coordinating lead arranger for the Vista Ridge (TX) Water Supply Project, and mandated leader arranger (MLA) for the LAX Automatic People Mover, the Long Beach (CA) Civic Center, the State Street (IN) Redevelopment Project, the Champlain Bridge in Montreal, the Regina By-Pass, Edmonton Light Rail, Ottawa Light Rail and Ohio State University’s CampusParc financing.

Prior to joining SMBC, Ray served as financial advisor to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s TIFIA Program Office on seven TIFIA financings; successfully closed project financings for the U.S. Departments of Energy, Defense, National Institute of Health (NIH) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Ray was previously a Managing Director & Head of Project Finance at CIFG; Managing Director at Scully Capital; and held project finance roles at Ambac and Credit Suisse.

Ray serves as a Member of Advisory Board of Cornell University’s Program on Infrastructure Policy (CPIP), the Editorial Board of the Journal of Structured Finance and the Committee on Revenue and Finance of the Transportation Research Board. Raymond holds an MBA from the Columbia Business School a BA in History, with Honors, from the University of Michigan

Dan Stoppenhagen Executive Vice President (EVP), Engineering, Bidding, and Business Development Lane Construction

Joining Lane in 2020, Dan Stoppenhagen leads and provides strategic oversight of the business development and bid development functions. A professional engineer, Dan has over 30 years of experience in both business development and execution of projects in the Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Maintenance (EPCM) Industry, with the last 22 years being in the heavy civil design, construction, and maintenance market. Dan’s expertise lies with traditional and alternative project delivery, including design-build, design-build-finance, and public-private-partnerships (PPP). Prior to Lane he was at Fluor managing Business Development for their Infrastructure Business Line responsible for the Americas (North, Central, and South America).

Frank Sacr Interim Executive Director Gateway Program Development Corp.

Frank joined GDC in August 2017 as Interim Finance Director and became Interim Executive Director in February 2019. GDC was established in 2016 to oversee and deliver the Gateway Program, with support from its partners, Amtrak, NJ Transit,the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the states of New Jersey and New York.

Prior to GDC, Frank was with Société Générale for 23 years, and for the last several years was the head of Société Générale’s infrastructure financing team for the Americas.

 Frank has been at the forefront of the development of the public private partnership(PPP) market in North America, having structured financing on several landmark infrastructure projects including airports, water, roads, and transit. In the New York area, Frank worked on the P3 structure for La Guardia Airport Termina lB.

He has been involved in numerous PPP transactions in the US market, either as an advisor to bidders or as a lender, and has advised on financing involving banks, private activity bonds, and taxable bonds. Frank’s formal qualifications include both commerce and law degrees from the University of Melbourne.

Colin Peppard LA Office of Innovation LA Metro

Colin Peppard is Manager for Outreach and Strategic Relationships with the Office of Extraordinary Innovation (OEI) at LA Metro. Peppard manages the agency’s Unsolicited Proposal Process, a tool used to develop public-private partnerships around Metro’s individual project plans, and explores how emerging technologies could improve and expand Metro’s service.

Previously, Peppard served as a policy advisor and senior legislative aide for U.S. Senator Thomas R.Carper, of Delaware, where he oversaw policy development and legislative strategy. Peppard helped to negotiate two federal transportation bills, and took a lead role in drafting several provisions to facilitate capital financing of public infrastructure. Before he began with Senator Carper, Peppard was the Deputy Director of Federal Transportation Policy with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) where he focused on advancing policies and projects with mutual mobility and environmental benefits. 

Jensen Clarke Director, Infrastructure Investments Fengate Asset Management

Jensen Clarke is a senior member of Fengate’s infrastructure investment team and is responsible for P3 partnering and project development across Canada and the US. As the firm’s business development and teaming lead, Jensen is focused on a strategic roster of high-profile P3 pursuits across North America. His most recent resume includes the LAX Consolidated Rent-a-Car Facility, Macdonald Block Reconstruction Project, and Gander and Grand Falls-Windsor Long-Term Care Homes Project.

Prior to joining Fengate in 2013, Jensen was a senior member of the transaction finance group at Infrastructure Ontario, a Crown agency with a mandate to build and modernize vital public infrastructure and maximize the value of government-owned buildings and land.

Jensen holds an MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University.

Trevor D'Olier-Lees Senior Director, Sector Lead S&P Global Ratings

Trevor D’Olier-Lees is a Senior Director at S&P Global Infrastructure Ratings. Areas of analytical leadership include; new analytical developments such as project finance, securitization, rooftop solar securitization, emerging markets, infrastructure as an asset class, bundling structures, credit enhancements and public private partnerships & renewables.