Day 2
11:45 – 13:00, What do ESG investors want from water?
Tony Elkins is an accomplished transportation development and alternative financing professional with more than 35 years of experience. He is skilled in the procurement of multibillion-dollar transportation projects, public-private partnerships, project finance and advising CEO’s and boards.
Elkins is a Vice President for Meridiam Infrastructure, playing a leading role in their North American business development efforts in transportation, social infrastructure, broadband and district energy projects. His long career in infrastructure development includes employment with firms such as WSP and Cintra, working on high-profile projects such as the Texas High Speed Rail, LA Metro’s Sepulveda Transit Corridor and Maryland’s I-495 and I-270 Congestion Relief Public-Private Partnership program. Elkins also spent more than 8 years working for Lendlease structuring over $6 billion of affordable housing projects for the U.S. military under the Department of Defense’s MHPI public-private partnership program.
He serves on the five-member Austin Transit Partnership board of directors that oversees the delivery of Austin’s $11+ billion transformative transit program. Serves as Chairman of the Finance and Risk Advisory Subcommittee of the board.
He holds an MBA in Finance and International Business from New York University and a BBA in Accounting with honors from the University of Massachusetts.