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Eugenio J. Alemán, Ph.D, Senior Economist, Wells Fargo & Co.
Eugenio J. Alemán holds a doctorate in economics with an emphasis in economic development and international trade and finance from Florida International University. He forecasts national, regional, and international economic trends, focusing on Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. He specializes in the border-town economies that trade with Mexico and in the Maquiladora manufacturing sector along the U.S.-Mexican border. Mr. Alemán also contributes to the analysis of the U.S. economy for Wells Fargo, including interest rates and the Texas economy. Mr. Alemán joined Wells Fargo as senior economist in July 2005. He worked at Global Insight, one of the leading economic forecasting and consulting firms in the U.S. as managing director for its Latin America Service. He has worked for the petroleum industry, and was also an adjunct professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia and a professor of economics and the director of the MBA program at the Inter-American University in Puerto Rico.
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Robert N. Barone, Principal - Ancora West Advisors; Chairman - California State Auto Association (AAA)
Robert N. Barone is a managing partner of Ancora West Advisors, an investment adviser affiliated with the Ancora group of companies. He sits on Ancora West’s security selection team and has investment discretion for all of Ancora West’s managed accounts.
From 1984 to 1999, Mr. Barone was the chief executive officer of Comstock Bank, Reno, Nevada. In 1999, Comstock was sold to First Security Bank which in turn was acquired by Wells Fargo in 2000. In 2001, he founded Adagio Trust Co., which he sold in 2006. Beginning in the late 1990s, Mr. Barone was a director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, and its chairman in 2004. He is currently chairman of the California State Automobile Association (AAA) and its associated insurance company. Mr. Barone is also a founding director of Nevada Security Bank, the major holding of The Bank Holdings (TBHS), and is a director of Allied Mineral Products, Columbus, OH.
Mr. Barone is a recognized authority on bank management with more than 35 years of experience and has developed expertise in corporate governance best practices. He graduated from Georgetown University and received a Ph.D. in Economics from that institution. |
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Tom Cargill, Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
Professor Thomas F. Cargill received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1968 from the University of California at Davis. He has taught and conducted research on financial and monetary economics at the University of California, Davis; California State University, Sacramento; Purdue University; and since 1973, the University of Nevada, Reno. Professor Cargill has taught in the summer program of the College of Business, University of Hawaii since 1999.
Professor Cargill has been a visiting scholar at the Comptroller of the Currency, Bank of Japan, Japanese Ministry of Finance, Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, East-West Center at the University of Hawaii, and the Bank of Korea. He has served as a consultant to the National Credit Union Administration, the World Bank, Central Intelligence Agency, and the International Monetary Fund. Professor Cargill has been invited to make presentations to a variety of governmental agencies in the United States, Japan, and Korea and has presented lectures in China, Guam, Hungry, Australia, and Indonesia.
Professor Cargill has authored or co-authored a large number of articles and books, many of which have been frequently cited in the economics literature. He has been active in business and economic consulting, contributing to the news media, and conducting regional research on the Nevada economy. |
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Tad Dunbar
Veteran news anchor Tad Dunbar has been in the reporting business for more than 50 years. Dunbar retired from KOLO News Channel 8 last July, after 38-years as the evening anchor. Prior to reporting in Reno, Dunbar worked in various television and radio stations in Texas where he was born and raised. Dunbar's extensive news career spans all areas of the business including, news director, assignment editor, producer, field reporter, photographer and film editor...but always as an anchor.
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Valerie Glenn, President/CEO of The Glenn Group
Valerie Glenn directs and manages the third largest full-service, integrated marketing and public relations firm in Nevada with offices in Reno and Las Vegas. For the past 19 years Glenn served as President/CEO of the Rose/Glenn Group. The Rose/Glenn Group and DRGM Advertising announced their merger in 2007 forming The Glenn Group. Glenn earned her bachelor of arts degree in journalism/advertising at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Actively involved in the community, Glenn has held leadership positions in a number of organizations, having served as chairman of the board of both the Reno-Sparks Chamber of Commerce and EDAWN, in addition to the Nevada Women's Fund, Nevada Museum of Art, Nevadaworks and the University of Nevada College of Business Advisory Board. Her accolades demonstrate her extensive marketing experience and commitment to the community with many awards and honors including: The Business Report of Northern Nevada's 2007 "Master Entrepreneur of the Year"; Girl Scouts of the Sierra Nevada Women in Leadership award; University of Nevada Alumni Association Professional Achievement award; Advertising Association of Northern Nevada's coveted Thomas C. Wilson Lifetime of Service award, the Public Relations Society of America, Sierra Nevada Chapter, Hall of Fame award; and, most recently, the Reno-Sparks Chamber's Raymond I. Smith Civic Leader of the Year award.
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Sara Hart, Director of Research, InfoSearch International
Sara Hart is the director of research at InfoSearch International. Prior to joining InfoSearch International, Hart was the vice president for corporate services at Saint Mary’s Health Network in Reno. She has taught research methods at Bowling Green State University and the University of Nevada, Reno. In addition to enjoying statistical analysis, Hart has written more than 100 research reports for businesses, done scores of professional presentations, and moderated dozens of focus groups. She has a doctorate from Stanford University in communication, with an emphasis in quantitative research methods. |
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Greg Krause, Executive Director, Regional Transportation Commission (RTC)
Greg Krause is the executive director of the Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County (RTC). Mr. Krause has worked in multi-modal transportation planning for more than 20 years and has a range of experience in transit services, street and highway development, and transportation funding. He was RTC's planning director for seven years and appointed executive director in April 2001. |
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Michael I. Schneider, Managing Partner, InfraConsult LLC
Michael Schneider is founder and managing partner of InfraConsult LLC, a new firm specializing in the development and financing of sustainable infrastructure projects and solutions. Spanning more than three decades, Mike's career in the infrastructure services field, has focused on two primary areas: innovative project development and delivery strategies, principally in the transport domain; and public-private partnerships (PPPs) for transport and infrastructure development.
As chairman of a special purpose company, California Transportation Ventures (CTV), Mike led the development of the SR 125 South Bay Expressway toll road east of San Diego, which opened to revenue traffic on July 12, 2008. To date, this project - one of California's AB 680 pilot public-private partnership projects - remains the only fully private project to be built using a federal (TIFIA) loan and private bank financing. He is also a Director of the private/governmental consortium constructing the Second Vivekananda toll bridge in Calcutta, India, also built with private investment and open for traffic in August 2007.
Mr. Schneider has written and lectured extensively on alternative project delivery mechanisms, and is recognized as one of the nation's most prominent authorities on private investment in public works. |
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Tom Skancke, President & CEO, The Skancke Company
Tom Skancke is the president and CEO of The Skancke Company a government and public affairs strategy company. For nearly two decades Mr. Skancke has worked on many transportation infrastructure related issues throughout the west and nationally. He has been involved with the past three major transportation reauthorization bills ISTEA, TEA-21 and SAFETEA-LU. In 2005, U.S. Senator Harry Reid appointed Skancke to the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study commission responsible for studying the current surface transportation system in the U.S. In 2006, he was appointed to the State of Nevada Blue Ribbon Task Force on Transportation to review the transportation funding crisis in Nevada. |
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Jeff Thredgold, President, Thredgold Economic Associates
Jeff Thredgold is president of Thredgold Economic Associates. His career includes 23 years with $95 billion banking giant KeyCorp, where he served as senior vice president and chief economist. He now serves as economic consultant to $50 billion Zions Bancorporation, which has banks in ten states, as well as other clients. Mr. Thredgold has appeared dozens of times on CNBC-TV, the nation’s business network, as well as numerous appearances on CNN, and is quoted regularly in the nation’s financial press. He is a monthly contributor for the national publication Blue Chip Financial Forecasts and quarterly USA TODAY economic forecast surveys. Jeff has been writing a weekly economic and financial newsletter, now entitled the Tea Leaf, for 32 years. He is the author of four books, “econAmerica: Why the American Economy is Alive and Well…And What that Means to Your Wallet” (released in June 2007); “Economy by Thredgold;” “A Parent's Letter to My Children in School;” and “On The One Hand…The Economist’s Joke Book.” He served as an adjunct professor of finance at the University of Utah for 16 years. He is a former member of both the Economic Advisory Committee of the American Bankers Association and the Economic Policy Committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. |
