Brian Butterfield is a Senior Vice President focusing on Office Tenant Representation at Cushman & Wakefield | Oxford Commercial. A native of the Lone Star state, and an Austin resident for more than 15 years, Brian is both personally and professionally invested in the long-term economic...

Joseph Cantalupo is a senior vice president with K Friese + Associates, an Austin based civil engineering consulting firm that provides services solely to public sector clients with special emphasis on water, wastewater, transportation and drainage planning, design, and management...

Blanca serves as the Assistant Director of Transportation for Parking and Transportation Services at The University of Texas at Austin. She graduated with a degree from UT in Advertising, has received her Masters in Public Administration and Urban and Environmental Planning, and completed her...

Sandy Hentges Guzman is the Executive Director of the Austin Area Research Organization (AARO), a non-partisan nonprofit organization of 110 business and civic leaders from Travis, Williamson, Hays, Bastrop, Burnet and Caldwell counties that engages committed leaders in advancing regional...

Tim Hayden is the CEO at Brain+Trust, and Chief of Business Strategy at The Next Practice.

Before Brain + Trust, he headed marketing at Zignal Labs, a real-time media intelligence platform used by Uber, Citrix, IBM, and others to identify influencers and for reputation management.

As...

Chris is the Facilities Manager at Google for Austin and Dallas. As Facilities Manager, Chris manages and operates programs that drive employees toward alternative ways of getting to and from work: shuttles, vanpools, (Waze) carpools, rideshare, scooters, and even kayaks(!).

Chris is...

Glenn’s career in public accounting has focused on providing tax and consulting services to clients. Additionally, he has played a primary role in the design and implementation of Maxwell Locke & Ritter’s paperless procedures, controls and use of technology in order to maximize internal...

Jenell leads economic, demographic, geographic, and market research and analysis efforts to support the Downtown Alliance's strategic priorities.

She sets the annual research agenda and directs multiple research projects that support economic development, planning, and advocacy efforts....

Leigh joined Silicon Labs in 2016 and serves as Digital Marketing Manager. In this role, she manages digital programs including advertising, search engine optimization (SEO) and social media. She previously co-founded and ran Social Distillery, a local social media agency, for five years before...

Jim Pledger has lived in the Austin area for 30 years and is a partner at Jackson Walker LLP. He specializes in representation of financial institutions, including bank mergers and acquisitions, charters and charter conversions, public equity and debt offerings for financial institutions and the...

Sam Sargent serves as Capital Metro’s Deputy Chief of Staff. A native South Austinite, Sam is a lifelong advocate for transit and equitable mobility. He previously served as program manager in the agency’s Community Engagement office. A lawyer by training, he spent time on the...

Danielle Skidmore is the President and Owner of Danielle Skidmore Consulting. She has 24 years of planning, design and construction experience on transportation projects throughout Texas. She has extensive experience with both roadway and drainage design for schematic and final design projects...

Currently serves as the City of Austin Transportation Director and is responsible for the City’s multi-modal transportation portfolio, including rail planning, traffic engineering and operations, parking enterprise, right-of-way permitting, and special events management. Prior to the City of...