Principal Strategist with the Ports and Marine Terminals practice for the US and Latin America. Experience includes freight transportation assignments across all modes: land, ocean, rail, and air. Project experience includes working with the Autoridad del Canal de Panama forecasting transits, analyzing market potentials, and comparing route costs and working in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Trinidad & Tobago, and Eastern Europe.

In addition to extensive port and maritime and railway consulting experience, worked exclusively in the transportation field, specializing in maritime/port applications and railway restructuring in Eastern Europe.

Expertise includes the following:

• Feasibility studies for new port facilities, developing financial models, negotiating private port development projects, and recommending financing options for various large infrastructure development projects including ports and railways
• Transshipment options in the Caribbean following the Canal expansion
• International trade and economics and effects on US ports
• Business development in Latin America (extensive work with ports in the region)
• Market analysis for Trans-Nicaragua rail land bridge between Corinto and Monkey Point
• Panama Canal - forecasting transits, feasibility studies, analyzing market potential, and estimating the effects of toll increases.

A recognized authority on the potential impacts of the Canal expansion on ocean shipping patterns and on US ports and the likely development of transshipment in the region and an expert in international commerce and economics.