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...

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...

Robert Goode, P.E. is serving as the Interim Director for Austin Water. Austin Water is committed to providing safe, reliable, high-quality and affordable water services to over 1,000,000 people in the Austin metropolitan area, across more than 548 square miles.

Robert is a professional...

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...

Sandy Hentges Guzman is the Chief Executive Officer 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...

Alex Houston has worked in TDM for several years, first at Movability as an intern, and currently with Hines, working for Meta. In her current role, she is Assistant Transportation Manager, and implements transportation programs in Central Texas and across the U.S. for one of the largest tech...

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...

Lonny Stern is an accomplished program director, communications manager, and policy professional, having worked with a variety of non-profit, government, and private sector organizations. He is particularly focused on scaling programs that increase human capital, reduce government dependency,...