I-10 Corridor Conference
Join us on June 4, 2009 for the I-10 Corridor Conference
Speakers
JOEL SZABAT
Previously at DOT, Szabat led department and government-wide initiatives such as the President’s Management Agenda, accelerating transportation projects of national significance, reducing freight congestion, and research prioritization. In 2005 Szabat directed the U.S. government’s transportation reconstruction program in Iraq and served as the Transportation Counselor to the American Ambassador in Baghdad. (Read More) Szabat has worked in the public sector for over 20 years. Before joining DOT, Szabat served as a principal consultant on transportation issues in the California State Assembly, served as a management and budget aide to the Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and worked in a management consulting firm.
Szabat received his B.A. in economics and government from Georgetown University, and his MBA from Harvard Business School. During the Cold War, he was in the United States Army commanding tank units patrolling the East-West German border. A former resident of Sacramento, California, he and his wife founded the non-profit International Leadership Foundation, providing public service scholarships for Asian American college students. |
CONAN NOLAN
From Columbine … to the “Unabomber,” to driving in front of O.J. Simpson during LA’s most famous freeway chase, Nolan has had a front row seat for some of the most important stories of the past 20 years. He was attending the World Series at Candlestick Park in San Francisco when the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake took place. Most recently reporting for NBC Nightly News on the firestorm that destroyed scores of homes in Santa Barbara.
.
Foreign assignments have included reporting from Kuwait and Iraq while covering “Operation Iraqi Freedom” for both NBC4 and the NBC network. Nolan has also filed stories from Israel and Japan while covering the Governor and from Beirut, Lebanon while reporting on the Arab world’s view of the September 11 anniversary
.
Nolan won an Emmy award for his reports from the Pakistani frontier on the U.S. led campaign to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan. He was also in Rome for the selection of a Pope Benedict after the death of Pope John Paul II
.
Nolan received a Golden Mike Award for a special report he did on the tiny South Pacific Island of Tuvalu which claims to be sinking due to global warming . Prior to joining NBC4 Los Angeles, he was a general assignment reporter at KSBW-TV, the NBC affiliate in Salinas, California. In 1981, he worked as a news reporter and weekend sports anchor for KSBY-TV in San Luis Obispo. Prior to that, he served as the assistant news director for KVEC-AM radio and political reporter for KCBX-FM radio also in San Luis Obispo. Nolan has a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of California-Davis. He grew up on a ranch in Los Osos Valley along California’s central coast and attended schools in San Luis Obispo, plus two years of college at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Nolan, his wife and son live in Glendale |
JAMES C. HANKLA
Mr. Hankla joined the Board of Harbor Commissioners in July 2003 following his appointment to a six-year term by then-Mayor Beverly O’Neill and confirmation by the Long Beach City Council. He has also been the Harbor Commission’s representative to the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority (ACTA) Governing Board. (Read More) As President, he presides over the Commission’s weekly Board meetings, makes committee appointments and acts as chief spokesperson for the Port of Long Beach, delivering the Port’s Green Port Policy message world wide. Mr. Hankla has championed the Port of Long Beach’s pioneering Green Port Policy, an environmental protection ethic that is a model for seaports around the world. When President in 2006, he led the Port’s development of a wide-ranging Clean Air Action Plan, which was adopted jointly with the Port of Los Angeles. He received a prestigious 2006 Greening Award for his significant environmental leadership as a Harbor Commissioner. Now consulting on public/private partnership projects as a principal of JCH/Fulcrum LLC, Mr. Hankla is celebrating his fifty-second year in public service, the past three decades as a top-level local public official who builds consensus around making a community better. With the core of his many career achievements in economic development and redevelopment, in April 2009, he was honored with the California Redevelopment Association's prestigious Lifetime Achievement in Redevelopment Award, which recognizes individuals for especially meritorious service, contributions to, or achievements in the field of redevelopment in California over the course of a career. Before his appointment to the Harbor Commission, he served as the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority's Chief Executive Officer for five years, from August 1998 until July 2003, overseeing all financial and administrative matters and ensuring that the $2.4 billion project opened on time and on budget. The Alameda Corridor is a 20-mile rail expressway between the two San Pedro Bay ports and the transcontinental rail yards near downtown Los Angeles. For his efforts, Governing Magazine named him a 2002 Public Official of the Year. Prior to joining ACTA, Mr. Hankla distinguished himself as City Manager of Long Beach for 12 years. He began his career of public service in 1957 with the County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation, while attending California State University, Long Beach. After graduating, he began working with the City of Long Beach in 1960 as a Budget Analyst and later a Legislative Analyst. In 1974, Mr. Hankla was named Executive Assistant to the City Manager, and in 1976 he became Director of Community Development and Executive Director of the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency. His work restructuring the City’s financing program for downtown redevelopment in the wake of California’s Proposition 13 earned the City the prestigious Winston Crouch Award from the American Society of Public Administration. Mr. Hankla entered the private sector briefly in 1980 as the Executive Director of the Virginia Peninsula Economic Development Corporation, directing industrial and commercial real estate marketing and financing. In 1982, he returned to California as General Manager for Campeau Corporation’s Northern California Housing Division, where he managed four real estate projects and handled public agency negotiations for the firm. Later in 1982 he returned to public service with Los Angeles County, where he combined the County's disparate economic development, community development, housing and redevelopment functions into a single agency, the Los Angeles Community Development Commission, and was the Commission's first Executive Director. The CDC continues to this day, serving the largest county government in the country. Two years later, he was appointed Chief Administrative Officer for the County of Los Angeles. He returned to Long Beach in 1987 as City Manager where he continued the transformation of the community with the successful redevelopment of its core downtown and oceanfront areas. He served as City Manager for 12 years, establishing a long record of distinguished achievement. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Mr. Hankla has a Master of Science degree in Government from California State University, Los Angeles, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in political science from California State University, Long Beach. He has been a guest lecturer at many colleges and universities including Harvard, the University of Southern California, California State University, Long Beach, and the University of California, Davis. He has been recognized for excellence in the field of economic development by the National Council for Urban Economic Development and is a recipient of the Ed DeLuca Memorial Award from that organization for which he served as President from 1982 to 1984. Mr. Hankla has served on numerous governing boards, advisory boards and civic organizations, including the International City Theatre, the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific, the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, the Los Angeles/Long Beach World Trade Center Association, Memorial Health Services, and the Olson Urban Housing Company. He is Past President of the Long Beach Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, and in 1994 was named a Distinguished Eagle Scout by that organization. He also holds the Silver Beaver and Silver Antelope awards from the BSA and was Area President for Southern California and Arizona. He has received many professional honors including being named Long Beach Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneur of the Year for 2001, Government Executive of the Year by Executive Magazine in 1987, and the Clarence Dykstra Award for Excellence in Public Administration from the American Society for Public Administration in 1988. In 1990, he received the International City Management Association’s Award for Program Excellence for Large Cities for innovation in personnel and human resources management. In 1998, the American Society for Public Administration honored him with the prestigious Earl Warren Award for his Contribution to Good Government, and he was honored by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with the Commanders Medal of Public Service. He also received the March of Dimes Humanitarian Award in 2001 and the Amistad Award from the Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center recognizing his many contributions to Rancho that improved health care services for patients. He has been named a distinguished alumnus by California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach City College and California State University, Los Angeles. In 2002 He was a Governing Magazine selection as Public Official of the Year for his work on the Alameda Corridor. The Port of Long Beach is one of the world’s premier seaports, a trail blazer in goods movement and environmental stewardship. Each year, trade valued at more than $140 billion moves through the Port of Long Beach, supporting more than 316,000 Southern California jobs. And with a Green Port Policy guiding all efforts, the Port is a catalyst for innovative programs to protect the environment. |
| DALE E. BONNER
As Secretary, he oversees 14 departments and several economic development programs and commissions consisting of more than 44,500 employees and a 09/10 budget of $12 billion, a budget larger than that of almost half the states in the nation. The Agency’s portfolio is one of the largest and most diverse in the State of California. Its operations address a myriad of issues that directly impact the state’s economic vitality and quality of life including transportation, public safety, affordable housing, international trade, financial services, tourism, and managed health care. (Read More) As the lead State Agency for economic development, BT&H strives to maintain and enhance California's leading role in the global economy through the Agency’s programs. Since being appointed, Secretary Bonner has overseen the implementation of the voter‑approved $19.9 billion transportation bond and the $2.85 billion housing bond (Propositions 1B and 1C).
Mr. Bonner most recently worked in the private sector, serving as a partner in the law firm Epstein Becker & Green from 2002 to 2007, where he represented public and privately-held companies in regulatory and transactional matters. From 1999 to 2002, he was counsel to the law firm Hogan & Hartson. He became a member of the California State Bar in 1991. Mr. Bonner served as Commissioner of the California Department of Corporations from 1998 to 1999 and as Deputy Secretary and General Counsel for BT&H from 1996 to 1998. Mr. Bonner also served as Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary in the Office of Governor Pete Wilson from 1992 to 1996. He currently sits on the California Science Center Board of Directors and is a past member of the BT&H Expert Review Panel, Los Angeles City Ethics Commission and California Performance Review Commission. Mr. Bonner earned a Juris Doctorate degree from Georgetown University Law Center and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southern California. |
SCOTT MOORE
In 2000, Scott exited Nebraska State Government when he joined Union Pacific Railroad as Director-Government Affairs. In this capacity, he oversaw the State and Local Government Affairs efforts of the Railroad in the Western 13 States of Union Pacific’s 23 State system. (Read More) Union Pacific named Scott to the position of Assistant Vice President & General Manager – Public Partnerships in April 2004. In this role, Moore was responsible, system wide, for the management of Union Pacific’s relationships with the many agencies, usually governmental, that partner with the railroad to solve communities’ transportation needs.
In August 2007, Moore was named Vice President, Public Affairs – West. Based out of the Regional Headquarters in Roseville, CA, Moore has the responsibility for all community relations, state government relations, public relations, public partnerships, port affairs and philanthropic programs across Union Pacific’s eight state Western Region. Scott is married to Danene J. Tushar, who is partner in the Omaha office of the Fraser-Stryker Law Firm. Scott and his wife live in Roseville. |
RANDALL LEWIS
Randall was named in the Los Angeles Times 2006 “West 100” list as one of the top 100 influential people in Southern California. He has also received the California Business Properties Association Champion of the Industry Award and has been inducted into the California Building Industry Association Hall of Fame. Randall is a trustee of the Urban Land Institute, as well as a Governor of the Urban Land Institute Foundation. He serves on several executive boards, including the USC School of Policy, Planning and Development, the UCLA School of Public Affairs, the Loma Linda University Medical Center Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Institute Advisor Council and also serves as the Co-Chair for the San Bernardino County Alliance for Education and is a member of the Southern California Leadership Council. Randall and the company devote considerable resources to enhancing the quality of life in communities where they do business. They are pioneers in programs promoting healthy communities, learning communities, and sustainable communities. |
|
DAVE ALLEN
Prior to his current position, Allen led Auto Club Speedway’s corporate sales and marketing department as Senior Director of Sales and Marketing. The Chino resident has overseen the Speedway’s corporate partnerships, sponsorship, hospitality, suite sales, and displays. He joined Auto Club Speedway as a marketing manager in April 1999 after spending one year at Laguna Seca in sales and marketing. He is a 1997 Graduate of Colorado State University with a BS in Speech Communication. |
|
JESS ROMO
Romo’s career spans 20 years with the City of Los Angeles. He has worked for the Bureau of Engineering, Department of Water and Power, and General Services Department. His expertise and experience includes lease administration, property management, and various areas of real estate. Prior to heading LAWA’s real estate group in 2001, Romo served as Property Manager at ONT and VNY. Romo holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of California, Irvine and a master’s degree in industrial psychology from California State University, Los Angeles. Romo resides in Claremont with his wife and three children. |
|
GREG DEVEREAUX
Mr. Devereaux is a Board Member and Past President of the California Redevelopment Association and on multiple California League of Cities committees. He is a member of the advisory committee for the Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy at USC and is the “visiting resident” in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Division of Public Administration residency program at West Virginia University. |
|
NOEL MASSIE
In 1980, Noel received a promotion to supervision in Oakland facility. After several operational rotations, UPS promoted him to the Oakland Hub Manager in 1984. In 1993, Noel accepted an assignment to UPS corporate headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia overseeing 7 sites within the UPS Leadership Schools system. (Read More) In October 1995 he was promoted as the Operations Manager for the greater Metro Philadelphia area. In 1997, Noel assumed responsibilities over the Metro Chicago Business Unit as its Vice President. In March of 2003, Noel made his way to the Virginia District where he served as Vice President for two years.
In April 2005, UPS Southeast California welcomed Noel as its Vice President. Noel is responsible for the efforts of over 8500 employees who provide service throughout Los Angeles, Inland Empire and the entire state of Hawaii. Noel holds two degrees, one from San Jose State University in Electrical Engineering and the other in Business Management from La Salle University in Philadelphia. Noel has been a community advocate during his career and has many professional affiliations. He has served on several boards including the National Urban League, the Chicago Workforce Board where he hosted the White House in 2001, the Chamber of Commerce for both Richmond, Virginia and Chicago, Illinois, and the Board of Pediatrics for MCV Hospital in Virginia. In addition, Mr. Massie was a board member for the Management Roundtable of Virginia consisting of 50 select CEO’s in the state. He received the Illinois’ 2002 Governor’s Award for Community Leadership. Noel also served as a member of United Way Boards in Chicago and Virginia. He now sits on the Inland Empire United Way Board and currently also sits on the Inland Empire Economic Partnership Board of Directors in Southern California. Noel and his wife Amanda have two sons Brayden, 11 and Pierce, 13 and they currently reside in Orange County, CA. Awards and Citations
|
|
WALLY KNOX
Immediately before taking his current position, he served as a commissioner of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. (Read More) Knox began his public life by serving has an elected trustee of the Los Angeles Community College District, from 1987 to 1994. In 1994, he was elected to the California State Assembly, representing West Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Century City, Hollywood, and portions of Studio City, Sherman Oaks and Encino.
While in the Assembly, he chaired the Select Committee on California’s Middle Class, which examined the causes of stagnating wages and declining living standards of working-class families. He also chaired the Labor Committee, Public Employee Retirement Committee, and Revenue and Taxation Committee. For four consecutive years, Knox earned a score of 100% from the California League of Conservation Voters with a perfect pro-environment voting record. He authored lynchpin legislation to prevent ocean pollution, reduce hazardous air pollution, and was the author of legislation providing the foundation for the measure of particulate matter pollution in California’s air. In addition, he led the successful five-year struggle to restore California’s eight-hour day law, secured legislation to encourage high-paying technological employment by curtailing sales taxes on capital investment, and a host of other matters. He is well known for his aggressive advocacy of the rapid completion of planned — but unexecuted — freeway expansions of the 405 and 101 freeways, and for ending the disruptive and unnecessary telephone area code proliferation of the late 1990s. Knox was a national leader in the efforts to obtain restitution for victims of the Holocaust. His legislation compelling insurance companies to fully divulge their records concerning Holocaust victims was fought all the way to the United States Supreme Court, where it lost a constitutional challenge by a single vote. In recognition of his work, he was the 1998 recipient of the award for outstanding leadership by the Jewish Public Affairs Committee. The first in his family to attend college, he graduated from Harvard University, the University of California Hastings College of the Law, and obtained a master’s degree in econometric sociology from UCLA. He served four years in the U.S. Army, and is a decorated Vietnam War Veteran. He and his wife, Elizabeth Garfield, an attorney and former President of the Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees, live in Larchmont Village, and are members of Temple Israel of Hollywood. He has two daughters, Aviva and Tamara, who were taught by their father how to start a campfire in the wilderness with a single match. |
|
MARK NUAIMI
Mr. Nuaimi has lived in Fontana since 1989. He is Assistant City Manager of the City of Colton. He has a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of LaVerne, a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and an Associate of Science Degree from Don Bosco Technical Institute. He is married to Susanne and has three children, Jessica, Marcus and Davis. (Read More) Mr. Nuaimi represents Fontana on the following committees:
|
|
LARRY SHARP
Mr. Sharp recently served on the Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital Foundation Board as its Chairman and was recently appointed as Chairman for the Inland Empire Economic Partnership (IEEP). He is also currently serving as a trustee on San Bernardino County’s Defined Benefit Plan 401(k) Committee. Mr. Sharp has over 40 years of credit union management experience. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from National University and an MBA in Finance from California State University, San Bernardino. |
Joel Szabat is a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy. This is his second tour of duty at DOT. Before returning to DOT, Szabat was Chief of Staff of the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Conan Nolan is a general assignment reporter for NBC4’s "Channel 4 News" and host of “News Conference,” the station’s Sunday morning politics and public affairs program.
Since joining the station in July 1986, Nolan has covered numerous important stories and currently covers local and state politics. He is responsible for coverage of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and California's current fiscal problems.
James C. Hankla is serving his second term as President of the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners, elected to the one-year post that began July 2008 by his colleagues on the five-member body that governs the Port of Long Beach. He was elected to his first term in July 2006. 
A native of rural Nebraska, Scott Moore is a 1983 Graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a BA in Political Science. After being elected as a member of Nebraska’s Unicameral Legislature in 1986, Scott served for eight years as a State Senator from the 24th Legislative district. In 1994, Scott was Elected Statewide as Nebraska’s Secretary of State and was re-elected in 1998.
Randall Lewis is Executive Vice President and a Principal of Lewis Operating Corp., a member of the Lewis Group of Companies. Lewis Group is one of the nation’s largest privately held real estate organizations focused on developing shopping centers, planned communities and multifamily projects throughout California and Nevada. The Lewis Group of Companies is currently involved in developing more than a dozen master planned communities that will include over 60,000 homes at build out. 
Dave Allen serves as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Auto Club Speedway – Southern California’s preeminent motorsports facility. In his position, Allen oversees the Speedway’s marketing, sales and ticketing departments. He has held his current position since 2006.
Jess Romo is the Airport Manager at LA/Ontario International Airport (ONT). Prior to this appointment in May 2006, Romo served Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) in a number of positions with progressive responsibilities since joining LAWA in 1997.
Mr. Devereaux has been in state and local government for over 30 years. Mr. Devereaux became City Manager for the City of Ontario, CA in September, 1997. Working closely with the Mayor and City Council the City embarked on an aggressive program to grow the City‘s economy. Each of the past 10 years have resulted in substantial surpluses allowing the City to build reserves, fund unfunded liabilities and undertake the most aggressive investment in community facilities in the City’s history.
UPS Southeast California Vice President Noel Massie began his UPS career in 1977 as a part-time employee. At the time, Noel was an engineering student at San Jose State University.
Wally Knox serves as the deputy executive director of external relations at the Port of Los Angeles. In that role, he provides strategic direction on all Port-related lobbying, legislative policy and external communications initiatives, and is in the inner circle of advisors to the Port’s executive director.
Mark N. Nuaimi was elected Mayor of Fontana in November 2002 and was re-elected in November 2006. His term will expire in November 2010.
Mr. Sharp currently is President and CEO of Arrowhead Credit Union. When Mr. Sharp started with the company in 1982, its assets were at $58 million. Arrowhead Credit Union currently has assets of over $1 billion and serves more than 168,000 members in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties through its 26 offices.