INFRASTRUCTURE - Key Persons

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• BPC 's Executive Council on
• Co - Chairman of the World Economic Forum 's Global Strategic Infrastructure Initiative
• President and CEO, S & P Global

He is president and chief executive officer of S&P Global, a leader in credit ratings, benchmarks and analytics for the global capital and commodity markets. He joined the company in September 2011 and served as president of Standard & Poor's Ratings Services. Previously, Peterson was the chief operating officer of Citibank, N.A., Citigroup's principal banking entity that operates in more than 100 countries. Peterson was with Citigroup for 26 years, during which time he transformed businesses and drove performance in investment and corporate banking, brokerage, asset management, private equity, and retail banking. His prior roles include CEO of Citigroup Japan, country manager for Costa Rica and Uruguay, and chief auditor of Citigroup. Peterson is co-chairman of the World Economic Forum's Global Strategic Infrastructure Initiative. He serves on the boards of directors of S&P Global, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee, the Institute of International Finance's Market Monitoring Group, the boards of advisors of Wharton Financial Institutions Center, the Partnership for New York City and the Kravis Leadership Institute, and the boards of trustees of Claremont McKenna College and the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Peterson received an M.B.A from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an undergraduate degree in mathematics and history at Claremont McKenna College.

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• Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Moelis & Company

Eric Cantor is vice chairman and managing director of Moelis & Company. He is also a member of the Moelis & Company board of directors. Cantor, who has more than 25 years of political and business experience, was formerly the representative for Virginia's 7th Congressional District and House Majority Leader. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives between 2001-2014. He was elected by his colleagues in the House to serve as the Majority Leader for the 112th and 113th Congresses where he led the public policy agenda for the House. During his time in office, Cantor was a leading voice on the economy, job creation and policies focused on improving the lives of the American middle class. He championed pro-growth solutions including lowering taxes, eliminating excessive regulation, strengthening businesses, and encouraging entrepreneurship. He was also regularly featured in publications focusing on a wide range of topics including both domestic and international matters. Cantor received his undergraduate degree from The George Washington University, his law degree from The College of William and Mary, and his master's degree from Columbia University in New York.

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• Founding Partner of BGR Group

Haley Barbour co-chairs the Bipartisan Policy Center's Immigration Task Force. Barbour, founding partner of BGR Group, returned to BGR in January 2012 after serving two consecutive terms as governor of Mississippi, including two years as the chairman of the Republican Governors Association. At BGR, he heads advocacy coalitions, lobbies on behalf of his clients and remains a major force in Republican party politics and elections. Barbour began his political career in 1968, dropping out of college to work on Richard Nixon's presidential campaign; in 1976, after supporting Ronald Reagan for the GOP nomination, he ran Gerald Ford's fall campaign in the Southeast. In 1982, he ran for U.S. Senate in Mississippi, but lost to incumbent John C. Stennis. Barbour later served as political director of the Reagan White House. In 1987, he co-founded the government affairs firm that later became BGR Group. From 1993 to 1997, Barbour served as chairman of the Republican National Committee, managing the 1994 Republican surge that led to GOP control of both Houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years. After Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005, Barbour received national recognition from the bipartisan American Legislative Exchange Council for his swift response to the worst natural disaster in American history. In 2015, he published America's Great Storm: Leading Through Hurricane Katrina, a memoir of the year after the storm from the governor's perspective and lessons in leadership from the mega-disaster. For his efforts to rebuild the Mississippi Gulf Coast, he received the Thomas Jefferson Freedom Award. Other awards during his tenure as governor included being named Governor of the Year by Governing Magazine, receiving the Gulf Guardian Award by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in recognition of his work to rebuild Gulf Coast ecosystems, and receiving the Adam Smith Award from BIPAC to honor his pursuit of the principles of free enterprise.

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• Chairman of American Triple
• Founder and Chairman, CityView

Henry Cisneros is Chairman of American Triple I, an infrastructure investment firm based in New York. He is also a Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors & Equity Owner of Shank Williams Cisneros & Co., L.L.C, and Principal of Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC. a national municipal and corporate finance firm. Mr. Cisneros founded CityView in 2003 and continues to actively invest in its projects. CityView is a partner in building more than 100 communities in 13 states, building more than 7,000 homes with a total value of over $5 billion Mr. Cisneros' community-building career began at the local level. After serving three terms as a City Council member, in 1981, Mr. Cisneros became the first Hispanic-American mayor of a major U.S. city, San Antonio, Texas. During his four terms as Mayor, he helped rebuild the city's economic base and spurred the creation of jobs through massive infrastructure and downtown improvements. In 1984, Mr. Cisneros was interviewed by the Democratic Presidential nominee as a possible candidate for Vice President of the United States and in 1986 was selected as the "Outstanding Mayor" in the nation by City and State Magazine. After completing four terms as Mayor, Mr. Cisneros formed Cisneros Asset Management Company, a fixed income management firm operating nationally and ranked at the time as the second fastest growing money manager in the nation. In 1992, President Clinton appointed Mr. Cisneros to be Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. As a member of President Clinton's Cabinet, Secretary Cisneros has been credited with initiating the revitalization of many of the nation's public housing developments and with formulating policies which contributed to achieving the nation's highest ever homeownership rate. In his role as the President's chief representative to the nation's cities, Mr. Cisneros personally worked in more than 200 U.S. cities in every one of the 50 states. After leaving HUD in 1997, Mr. Cisneros was president and chief operating officer of Univision Communications, the Spanish-language broadcaster which has become the fifth- most-watched television network in the nation. Mr. Cisneros served on Univision's Board of Directors until 2020. Mr. Cisneros has served as President of the National League of Cities, as Deputy Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and as Vice-Chairman of Habitat for Humanity International. Mr. Cisneros remains active in San Antonio's leadership where he is former Chairman of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, the San Antonio Economic Development Foundation, the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and BioMed SA. He is a former member of the advisory board of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Mr.Cisneros has been inducted into the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) "Builders Hall of Fame". Mr. Cisneros has also been author or editor of several books including: Interwoven Destinies: Cities and the Nation. His book project with former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp, Opportunity and Progress: A Bipartisan Platform for National Housing Policy, was presented the Common Purpose Award for demonstrating the potential of bipartisan cooperation and Casa y Comunidad: Latino Home and Neighborhood Design was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Silver Medal in the category of best business book of 2006. In 2017 he co-authored Building Equitable Cities. In 2021 he co-authored A Bottom-Up Infrastructure Strategy for American Renewal and The Texas Triangle: An Emerging Power in the Global Economy. Mr. Cisneros holds a Bachelor of Arts and a master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Texas A&M University, where he has been designated a Distinguished Alumnus. He earned a Master's degree in Public Administration from Harvard University, was a graduate assistant in urban economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holds a Doctorate in Public Administration from George Washington University, and has been awarded more than 20 honorary doctorates from leading universities. Texas A&M University at San Antonio is the site of the Cisneros Center for Emerging Leaders. He served as an infantry officer in the United States Army. Mr. Cisneros is married to Mary Alice P. Cisneros, who from 2007-2011 served on San Antonio's City Council. They have three children - Teresa, Mercedes, and John Paul - and four grandchildren.

Job Titles:

• Administrator
• Chairman, Meridiam ( North America ) Infrastructure Fund
• Member of BPC 's Executive Council

Jane Garvey serves as a member of BPC's Executive Council on Infrastructure. She is North America chairman of Meridiam Infrastructure, having joined Meridiam in 2009. Garvey has held a number of senior positions across the public and private sector. In 2008 she served on the transition team for President Barack Obama helping to advise the new administration on transportation policies and related challenges. Prior to that, Garvey headed the US Public/Private Partnerships at JPMorgan. In this role she advised states on financing strategies to facilitate much needed project delivery for state governments. Garvey was the 14th administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). As the first FAA administrator to serve a five-year term, Garvey was responsible for navigating the industry through the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and into the 21st century. Her legacy as administrator includes leading the FAA through one of the toughest chapters in all of our history, restoring America's confidence in air travel and strengthening airline safety. During Administrator Garvey's term, the FAA successfully navigated the Y2K transition, established a risk management approach across the entire aviation community to improve aviation safety, and achieved aggressive strides to expand the capacity and capabilities of the air traffic control system. Prior to becoming FAA administrator in 1997, Garvey was acting administrator and previously deputy administrator of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Among her accomplishments at FHWA, Garvey conceived and developed the Innovative Financing Initiative, enabling the states to use federal highway funds more effectively. Most of the funds-management methods tested by more than 30 states under this initiative were later enacted into law. One particularly successful innovation enables a state to pledge future highway revenues to repay a special debt instrument, designated a GARVEE (Grant Anticipation Revenue Vehicle) by the U.S. public finance market. Before joining the FHWA, Garvey was director of Boston's Logan International Airport. From 1988 to 1991, she was commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Works. Garvey has received numerous awards and public recognition including the National Air Transportation Association's Distinguished Service Award, the National Council of Public-Private Partnerships Leadership Award, the National Award of Excellence for Public leaders, the Woman of the Year award from Women in Transportation and Women in Politics. In 2002, the Association of Road and Transportation Builders presented Garvey with their highest award when she joined the distinguished list of The Hundred Leaders in Transportation in the 20th century. She currently serves on several corporate boards and commissions, including United Airlines and BPC.

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• Head of Met

John Tanyeri is Head of MetLife's Infrastructure and Project Finance investment team. In this capacity, he oversees a team of credit analysts in the US and UK that manage a $20 billion portfolio. In 2012, MetLife Private Capital Investors was recognized for its infrastructure debt investment capabilities, being named 2012 "Global Institutional Investor of the Year" by Project Finance Internationalmagazine. Mr. Tanyeri spent three years in the UK from December 2013 to 2016 in an effort build out the European infrastructure origination platform. In 2019, MetLife originated approximately $5 billion of Infrastructure debt focused in Europe, North America, Latin America, Middle East and Australia. Prior to joining MetLife in 1996, Mr. Tanyeri worked in a variety of investing and finance functions at Salomon, Incorporated. He holds a BS degree in Finance from the College of New Jersey and an MBA in Finance from the University of Tennessee.

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• Member of BPC 's Executive Council
• President and CEO, FedEx Freight

Michael L. Ducker serves as a member of BPC's Executive Council on Infrastructure. He is president and CEO of FedEx Freight. Ducker provides strategic direction for the corporation's less-than-truckload (LTL) companies throughout North America and for FedEx Custom Critical, a leading carrier of time-sensitive, critical shipments. During his FedEx career, he was chief operating officer of FedEx Express and president of its international business, president of FedEx Express Asia Pacific in Hong Kong for four years and led the Southeast Asia and Middle East regions from Singapore, as well as Southern Europe from Milan, Italy. He serves on the executive committee of the American Trucking Association and as a member of the American Transportation Research Institute board of directors. In addition to being on the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations for the Obama administration, he also serves as chairman of the International Policy Committee, executive board member and vice chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and as a board member for the Coalition of Service Industries, The Salvation Army, Amway Corporation and International Flavors and Fragrances. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, he received his M.B.A. from a joint program of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

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• Member of BPC 's Executive Council
• President and CEO, Xylem

Patrick Decker serves as a member of BPC's Executive Council on Infrastructure. He was named president and CEO of Xylem in March 2014. He also serves on the Xylem board of directors. He joined Xylem from Harsco Corporation, a global industrial services company where he was president and CEO since 2012. At Harsco, he was successful establishing company-wide programs focused on business simplification, Lean Six Sigma continuous improvement, talent development, innovation and safety. Prior to that, he served in a number of leadership roles at Tyco International, ultimately serving as president of Tyco Flow Control, a $4 billion leader in industrial flow control solutions where he was able to grow revenue significantly in emerging markets, execute the company's largest acquisitions in Brazil and the Middle East, and champion a three-year philanthropic commitment to clean water access. In addition, he led the effort that resulted in the separation of the Flow Control business from the parent company. Earlier in his career, Decker held a number of progressively responsible financial leadership positions at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, including nine years of international assignments in Latin America and Asia. He started his career with Price Waterhouse LLP, now PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He currently serves on the energy and environment committee for the Business Roundtable, as well as on the advisory council for the Dean of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and finance from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.

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• Head of North America Commercial Insurance for Zurich North America

Paul Horgan is the head of North America commercial insurance for Zurich North America and is responsible for the direction, management and performance of all of the company's commercial customer business in the U.S. and Canada, as well as its specialty products. Horgan has been with Zurich since 2007, and his previous roles have included: head of global corporate in North America; head of group reinsurance, serving at the company's worldwide headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland; and chief underwriting officer for global corporate in North America. In all, Horgan has more than 30 years of experience in the insurance industry. Before joining Zurich, he served in a number of senior roles in alternative markets, underwriting, and finance. Horgan holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Maine and an MBA in finance from Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.

Job Titles:

• Chief Investment Officer
• Executive Vice President
• Board Member of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
• Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Met

Steven A. Kandarian is chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET), a leading provider of insurance, annuities and employee benefit programs to approximately 100 million customers in nearly 50 markets around the world. He became president and CEO on May 1, 2011 and chairman of the board of directors on January 1, 2012. For 2016, MetLife had $63.5 billion in revenue. The company ranked 42nd on the most recent FORTUNE 500®. Kandarian joined MetLife in April 2005 as executive vice president and chief investment officer (CIO). From 2007 to 2012, he also led MetLife's enterprise-wide strategy, which identified key areas of focus for the company. His direction contributed to MetLife's global expansion and led to significant cost savings as well as efforts to address the insurance needs of the underserved U.S. middle market. As CIO, Kandarian oversaw the company's more than $450 billion general account portfolio and led a number of initiatives that strengthened the portfolio and contributed to MetLife's bottom line. He enhanced the company's focus on effective risk management and diversified MetLife's investment portfolio, in part through the $5.4 billion sale of Peter Cooper Village/Stuyvesant Town in 2006. Under Kandarian's leadership, MetLife identified the housing bubble early and reduced its exposure to sub-prime mortgage-backed securities, raised the overall quality of its corporate credit portfolio, and increased its focus on low loan-to-value commercial and agricultural mortgages. His efforts helped MetLife emerge from the 2008 credit crisis with the financial strength to complete the company's $16.4 billion purchase of Alico. From 2001 to 2004, Kandarian was executive director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). During his tenure, he made the public case for comprehensive reform of the pension funding rules to put the defined benefit system and the PBGC on a sound financial footing, helping to lay the groundwork for the enactment of the Pension Protection Act of 2006. Previously, Kandarian was founder and managing partner of Orion Partners, LP, a private equity firm based in the Boston area. Earlier he was managing director of Lee Capital Holdings. He began his career as an investment banker with Houston-based Rotan Mosle, Inc. Kandarian is a board member of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, the Institute of International Finance, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Neuberger Berman and the Partnership for New York City. He is a member of the Business Council and the Business Roundtable. Kandarian earned his B.A. from Clark University, J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

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• Member of BPC 's Executive Council
• President and CEO, Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co., L.L.C.

Suzanne Shank serves as a member of BPC's Executive Council on Infrastructure. She is vice-chair, president, CEO and a co-founder of Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co., L.L.C., the top-ranked minority- and women-owned municipal bond underwriting firm in the U.S. and the first minority-owned firm to be nationally ranked in the top 10 among all such firms in the country. Founded in 1996, Siebert Brandford Shank has had aggressive growth with 21 offices and managing deals for state and local governments across the country totaling over $1 trillion in municipal transactions. Shank is a principal and member of the board of directors of the firm. A 27-year veteran of the industry, Shank has crafted financing plans for large-scale infrastructure projects for a variety of issuers across the nation. Shank's dedication and expertise have helped the company grow from a small start-up into a national financial powerhouse, establishing itself among the nation's leading underwriters in funding projects for education, housing, health services, transportation, utilities, capital facilities, redevelopment and infrastructure. Shank has won numerous awards and honors throughout her years in the public finance industry. Most recently she was inducted into the 2014 Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni at Georgia Institute of Technology, named to NBC's Grio 100 list, which honors African American leaders nationally, has been recognized by U.S. Banker Magazine as one of the "Top 25 Women in Finance", by Essence Magazine in their Power List, by Black Enterprise as one of the "50 Most Influential Black Women in Business" and one of the "75 Most Powerful Blacks on Wall Street." Shank was also selected by the Wharton School of Business from among 100,000 graduates as one of its "125 Influential People and Ideas." She has also appeared on CNBC and Bloomberg TV promoting the strength of the municipal bond market. A municipal industry advocate, Shank formerly served as a board member of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board and the Municipal Executive Steering Committee for the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. She is active in numerous industry and civic organizations and serves on several boards, including the Wharton Graduate Board of Trustees, Spelman College board of trustees, the Georgia Tech Advisory Board to the President, the New York Citizens Budget Commission, Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Michigan Chapter of the International Women's Forum, among others. Prior to her public finance career, Shank was an engineer with General Dynamics, Electric Boat Division, where she worked as a design engineer on various design projects. Shank is a graduate of The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania with a Master of Business Administration degree in finance, and the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering.

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• Co - Head, CIO Fundamental Research

Tom McLoughlin is Co-Head of the CIO Fundamental Research team, focusing on the taxable and tax-exempt fixed income markets and on areas of public policy. He currently serves as a member of the Research Management Committee. In his current role, Tom works closely with the U.S. capital markets desk to ensure the delivery of timely research on corporate credit, preferred securities and tax-exempt bonds. Tom has spent 30 years in fixed income markets and prior to joining UBS in 2010, served as CEO of National Public Finance Guarantee Corporation. Prior to his tenure at National, he held a number of positions at MBIA Insurance Corp., including head of Global Public Finance and manager of the U.S. Western Region. Before joining MBIA, he served as a Vice President at Legg Mason where he advised local governments throughout the U.S. on the sale of municipal bonds. Prior to his tenure at Legg Mason, he was an Assistant Director of the Government Finance Officers Association and a senior credit analyst at Moody's Investors Service. Tom began his career as a staff member in the New York State Senate and the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment. He is a former chairman of the California Society of Municipal Analysts, former Governing Board Member of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts and a member of the Society of Municipal Analysts. Tom holds a bachelor's degree from the State University of New York at Albany and a master's degree from George Washington University.

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• Honorary Director of Catalyst Inc
• Lead Director of ManpowerGroup Inc
• Member of the St. Michael 's Hospital Foundation Board

William Downe served as the chief executive officer of BMO Financial Group from March 2007 until October 31, 2017. Downe joined Bank of Montreal in 1983 and held a variety of senior management positions in Canada and the U.S. In 1999, he was appointed vice-chair of Bank of Montreal, and in 2001, he was named deputy chair of BMO Financial Group and chief executive officer of BMO Nesbitt Burns. In 2006, he was named chief operating officer of BMO Financial Group. Downe is lead director of ManpowerGroup Inc.; a member of the Rush System board; a member of the Rush University Medical Center Board of Trustees; and co-chair of the Rush Campaign Executive Committee. He is an advisory board member of the Rotman School of Management's Martin Prosperity Institute (MPI) at the University of Toronto, and a member of the Economic Club of Chicago. He also serves on the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs' North American Free Trade Agreement Council. Downe is an honorary director of Catalyst Inc. and was chair of Catalyst's Canadian Advisory Board. He served on the board of the Business Council of Canada; the board of the International Monetary Conference (IMC); and the National Executive Committee of the 2015 Governor General Canadian Leadership Conference. He is past president of the Federal Reserve Board's Federal Advisory Council. As an active philanthropist, Downe is a member of the St. Michael's Hospital Foundation Board and is past chair of the hospital's Board of Directors.. He is also a leader of The Campaign for the University of Toronto and served as chairman of the 2009 Campaign Cabinet for the United Way of Greater Toronto. Downe holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wilfrid Laurier University and an MBA from the University of Toronto. He also received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University. He was recognized in September 2016 by the Woodrow Wilson Center's Canada Institute and received its Award for Corporate Citizenship. In October 2017, Downe received the Rotman Lifetime Achievement Award by the University of Toronto, and in 2003, he received the Rotman Distinguished Business Alumni Award from the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management. Downe is a Member of the Order of Canada.