Mr. Michael I. Schneider
Executive Vice President, Parsons Brinckerhoff & Founder, PB Consult

Michael I. Schneider is Executive Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors of Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc., an international infrastructure services firm with annual revenues of $1.4 billion and 9,000 employees in 150 offices on six continents. He also serves as the firm's Director of Corporate Development and is the founder and Chairman of PB Consult, the firm's management consulting subsidiary. He is a member of the firm's Global Management Committee and Chairman of the firm's Career Development Committee. As Director of Corporate Development, he directs Parsons Brinckerhoff's firm-wide business development and strategic investments and also oversees the Office of Professional Practice, which manages a number of professional development programs.

He has been at the forefront of the infrastructure industry's activities in public-private partnerships and infrastructure privatization, and has directed a number of highly innovative transportation infrastructure delivery and procurement programs. Under his leadership, Parsons Brinckerhoff was instrumental in the development of the State Route 125 Tollway in San Diego, California, the first new privately owned and operated toll road in the western U.S. The firm sold its equity interest in the project in 2002 but maintains an active role in the project as consultant to the current developer.

Mr. Schneider has worked throughout the United States , the Middle East , Latin America , Europe and Southeast Asia . His expertise in the planning and development of transportation systems and facilities has been applied to corridor studies and feasibility assessments, alternatives analyses, investment strategies, economic and financial evaluations, and large-scale transportation improvement plans. He has worked extensively in highway and toll road development, urban mass transit (bus and rail), and in the development of innovative financing programs for infrastructure.

Mr. Schneider has a master's degree in urban and regional planning and a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles . He has written extensively on delivery methods, planning issues, and innovative financing for major infrastructure, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.