Ernst & Young Adds Tom Rousakis and Jennifer Mayer to P3 Practice

BRADENTON, Fla. - Ernst & Young LLP added Tom Rousakis and Jennifer Mayer to the firm’s infrastructure advisory practice.

The additions expand the firm’s infrastructure advisory capabilities as financing and development of infrastructure in the U.S. becomes more critical to the economy and national competitiveness, E&Y said.

“We are delighted to welcome Tom and Jennifer to the team as they both bring decades of key capital markets and federal program experience to our already strong capabilities in transportation and public-private partnership engagements,” said Mike Parker, senior managing director of Ernst & Young Infrastructure Advisors LLC, the registered municipal advisor affiliate of Ernst & Young.

Rousakis, who joined Ernst & Young as senior managing director in New York, has more than 20 years of public and private experience, most recently at Goldman Sachs where he served as co-head of Transportation and Project Finance in Public Sector and Infrastructure Banking.

A nationally recognized professional in transportation finance, Rousakis has advised or led financings for public agencies on large and complex transportation programs, as well as P3 projects in the marketplace, according to E&Y.

Mayer joined the firm as senior vice president in San Francisco. She previously was an in-house senior technical advisor and innovative finance national expert for the Federal Highway Administration.

Mayer’s work will include helping clients implement major transportation programs and projects that incorporate state, local, and federal funding as well as private funds. She has more than 20 years of experience on transportation projects and is also the founding chair of the Transportation Research Board’s subcommittee on P3s.

Ernst & Young combined its transaction advisory services with Jeffrey A. Parker & Associates Inc. in July 2012, in another expansion of the firm infrastructure advisory work.

Ernst & Young Infrastructure Advisors clients include New York State’s Tappan Zee Bridge replacement, Georgia’s multimodal transportation complex in downtown Atlanta, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Goethals Bridge Replacement, Charlotte, N.C.’s light rail program, Nevada’s Project Neon along Interstate 15 in downtown Las Vegas, and Washington, D.C.’s streetcar network.

Other clients also include the Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Ohio, and Texas transportation departments and their P3 programs.

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