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Message from the President |
The Cambridge Systematics leadership team is focused on ensuring that the firm continues to earn our reputation as a leader in providing innovative, objective, high quality, and pragmatic solutions to the transportation industry’s mobility, infrastructure, safety, and economic challenges. We are driven to exceed client expectations, attract and retain the best staff, and deliver the best results possible. Our leaders are expert practitioners as well as managers. You can find them doing what they love best, solving client problems, developing partner and client relationships, and using their expertise to contribute to industry organizations.
For more details about these industry leaders, please click on a name below:
Cambridge Systematics also has an illustrious board of directors whose leadership, innovation, and dedication help guide the firm toward our goal of improving the quality of transportation services now and for future generations.
For more details about our Board of Directors, please click on a name below:
A select number of individuals are authorized to bind Cambridge Systematics. If you have any questions concerning signing authority, please contact Janet Harris Wolf, Director of Contracts and Legal Counsel, at (312) 346-9907
Lance Neumann has more than 30 years of experience in transportation policy, planning, programming, and finance. He has worked for a broad range of Federal, state, regional, and local agencies, as well as private and international clients. Dr. Neumann started the firm’s management systems practice in the late 1970s, and has worked with many agencies developing practical approaches to measure and improve performance, evaluate projects and programs, improve resource allocation decisions, and increase accountability. Dr. Neumann has been involved in major program evaluation projects for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), as well as at the state and local levels. He is the chairman of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Performance Measurement Committee. Dr. Neumann has published numerous articles and lectured on topics related to resource allocation decision-making, management systems, and evaluation. Dr. Neumann received a Ph.D. and a Master’s degree in Transportation Systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Brown University.
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Chip Taggart manages day-to-day operations and performance, and oversees administrative functions at Cambridge Systematics. He also is responsible for developing and managing corporate QA/QC processes. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Taggart served in executive positions for companies that provide management consulting, information technology, revenue enhancement, and operations services to Federal, state, and local governments throughout the United States. His major achievements include establishing the public sector transportation consulting practice at Ernst & Young; managing a division of a publicly traded company and growing it from $40 million to $70 million in annual revenue; and building the National Fleet Management and Student Transportation Consulting Practice at David M. Griffith & Associates into the leading provider of public sector fleet consulting services in the country. Mr. Taggart received a Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Lawrence University.
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Candace Tobin is responsible for all financial and treasury functions at Cambridge Systematics and ensures maintenance of appropriate internal control systems to protect the assets of the company. She oversees compliance with Federal, state, and local government costing and reporting requirements; monitors internal control systems; and manages monthly financial reporting. Ms. Tobin previously served as Chief Financial Officer/Vice President Finance at The Herzog-Hart Group, Inc., and Manager at Deloitte & Touche. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Syracuse University and attended the Executive Programs at the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Ms. Tobin is a Certified Public Accountant in Massachusetts and North Carolina.
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Steve Pickrell is the manager of the firm’s Transportation Planning and Management business line. With more than 25 years of consulting experience in transportation planning and engineering, Mr. Pickrell has played project management and technical roles on projects for public and private sector clients. He has participated in numerous performance-based planning projects for state departments of transportation (DOT) and regional planning agencies. Mr. Pickrell was the Principal Investigator for National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), Project 8-32(2), Multimodal Transportation: Development of a Performance-Based Planning Methodology. In Maryland, Texas, Colorado, Montana, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, and California, he has helped state DOTs and metropolitan planning organizations (MPO) to better integrate performance measures into planning and programming processes. Mr. Pickrell received a Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Bachelor’s degree in Urban Planning from Stanford University.
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Marc Cutler is the manager of the firm’s Travel Demand Forecasting business line. Mr. Cutler specializes in managing large multimodal transportation planning and policy projects. He has managed numerous studies in transportation planning, traffic engineering, traffic management, and travel demand modeling and forecasting. Mr. Cutler recently has led several large studies for the New York City Economic Development Corporation, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council, and the Minnesota DOT. For the Georgia DOT, he led both the Interstate Highway System Plan and the Statewide Transportation Plan. Additionally, he served as manager of transportation planning for the Central Artery/Tunnel project in Boston, and conducted numerous development-related traffic studies throughout Boston. Mr. Cutler received a Master’s degree in Urban Planning from Tufts University, a Master’s degree in Education from Harvard University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Tufts University.
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Vassili Alexiadis is the manager of the firm’s Transportation Operations business line. With more than 20 years of experience in ITS and operations planning, design, and evaluation, Dr. Alexiadis has directed projects for numerous Federal, state, and local clients, including the development of the Financial Plan for California’s Transportation Management Systems; the evaluation of the Twin Cities’ ramp metering system; and the traffic analysis effort for the East Boston/Logan Airport area of the Central Artery/Tunnel project in Boston. Dr. Alexiadis has lead several large studies using state-of-the-practice commercial microsimulation tools. He directed the development of the ITS Deployment Analysis System (IDAS); the FHWA’s decision support methodology for selecting traffic analysis tools; and national guidelines for applying traffic simulation tools. Dr. Alexiadis received a Ph.D. in Transportation from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a Master’s degree in Transportation Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Aristotelian University at Thessalonski, Greece.
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Brad Wright is the manager of the firm’s Freight Transportation business line. He has worked extensively with states, the U.S. DOT, and industry to improve the safety and efficiency of the nation’s freight transportation system. Mr. Wright specializes in strategic planning, business process reengineering, and managing the implementation of technology solutions to improve the safety, security, and efficiency of freight transportation. Mr. Wright currently serves as the Principal-in-Charge of a business process outsourcing contract with the New York State DOT. In conjunction with this contract, Cambridge Systematics is providing on-site personnel to administer the processing of special permits for motor carriers. He directed the multi-million dollar Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks (CVISN)/Performance and Registration Information Systems Management (PRISM) project for the State of Connecticut. This project included the implementation of a number of Cambridge Systematics’ commercial vehicle information systems and the integration of these systems with existing state and Federal information systems. These systems enable motor carriers to conduct business on-line with the State of Connecticut and support roadside commercial vehicle enforcement activities. Mr. Wright has overseen similar automation projects in the states of California, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, and New York. Prior to joining Cambridge Systematics, Mr. Wright worked in the Industrial Engineering Department at United Parcel Service. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Northeastern University.
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Eric Ziering is Director of the firm’s Software Business Unit, responsible for software and product strategy, software intellectual property protection, and management of the company’s software development staff. Mr. Ziering has spent more than 25 years leading the development of enterprise systems, massively scalable Internet services, geographic information systems, and desktop application products serving the transportation and information publishing industries. He oversees systems development projects for performance measurement and assessment, travel demand modeling and forecasting, safety planning, and operations data management, with a focus on rich, interactive, web-based applications. Prior to joining Cambridge Systematics, Mr. Ziering served as Chief Operating Officer of LingoMotors, Inc. and founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fact City, Inc. He was a founder of Caliper Corporation, and the creator of TransCAD, the leading transportation planning software product in North America. Mr. Ziering received a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from MIT.
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Moshe Ben-Akiva is the Edmund K. Turner Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, and Director of the MIT Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Program. He received a Ph.D. in Transportation Systems from MIT and is the recipient of honorary doctor degrees from the Université Lumière Lyon, France and the University of the Aegean, Greece. Dr. Ben-Akiva’s areas of research include transportation systems, transportation demand and network modeling, infrastructure management, market research and econometrics. He has pioneered in the development and application of the discrete choice and demand modeling techniques that are being widely applied in a variety of disciplines and industries. His work in this area was cited in the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Dan McFadden.
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Emil H. Frankel is the Director of Transportation Policy for the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D.C., and an independent consultant on transportation policy and public management issues. In early 2008, he served as Acting Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Transportation (DOT), where he also served as Commissioner from 1991 to 1995. In 2008 and 2009, he was a Visiting Lecturer at the Yale School of Management and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where he taught on issues of transportation, energy, and environmental policy and public management. Mr. Frankel was Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy of the U.S. DOT from 2002 to 2005. Appointed by President George W. Bush, Mr. Frankel played a key role in the coordination and development of the Administration’s proposal to reauthorize the Federal highway, transit, and highway safety programs. He also provided policy leadership in such areas as intermodal freight transportation, reform of the Nation’s intercity passenger rail system, transportation project financing, and the application of information technologies to transportation systems operations. From 1995 to 2001, Mr. Frankel was Of Counsel to Day, Berry & Howard in the law firm’s Stamford, Connecticut office. He also served as a founding Vice Chair of the I-95 Corridor Coalition. Mr. Frankel received an LL.B. from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Manchester University in the United Kingdom.
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Rob Kasameyer’s professional activities focus on strategy and finance for technology-based companies. He currently is the CEO of Cambridge Viscosity, a venture backed process-instrument company. Mr. Kasameyer has consulted for numerous companies and teaches for the World Bank Institute and Hult International Business School in corporate restructuring and strategy. He has conducted assignments on behalf of clients on strategy and finance, business development, strategic partnering, corporate restructuring, and corporate and venture finance. Mr. Kasameyer has served on the Board of Cambridge Systematics since the mid 1980s. He also serves as a member of the Industrial Advisory Board for Tufts University, and has served as an elected official in his town. Mr. Kasameyer received an MBA from Harvard University and a Bachelor’s degree from Tufts University.
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Lance Neumann has more than 30 years of experience in transportation policy, planning, programming, and finance. He has worked for a broad range of Federal, state, regional, and local agencies, as well as private and international clients. Dr. Neumann started the firm’s management systems practice in the late 1970s, and has worked with many agencies developing practical approaches to measure and improve performance, evaluate projects and programs, improve resource allocation decisions, and increase accountability. Dr. Neumann has been involved in major program evaluation projects for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), as well as at the state and local levels. He is the chairman of the TRB Subcommittee on Performance Measures. Dr. Neumann has published numerous articles and lectured on topics related to resource allocation decision-making, management systems, and evaluation. Dr. Neumann received a Ph.D. and a Master’s degree in Transportation Systems from MIT, and a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Brown University.
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Kathy Stein is a transportation planner with more than 30 years of experience in the public and private sectors. Now semi-retired, Ms. Stein is co-founder and former owner of Howard/Stein-Hudson Associates, a transportation planning and traffic engineering firm. Prior to starting the firm, she served as Director of Transportation for the New York City Department of City Planning and Director of Field Staff for the metropolitan Boston region’s Central Transportation Planning Staff. Ms. Stein has served on many TRB committees and Cooperative Research Program panels, including the Division A Council, which oversees all the Board’s committees. She was appointed a lifetime Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, and was elected Woman of the Year by the Boston Chapter and the national organization of Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) in 2003. She received a Master’s degree in Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina, and a Bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College.
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Mike Strickman is the Chief Technology Officer of ChoiceStream, Inc., based in Cambridge, MA. Mr. Strickman was co-founder and CEO of the companies that developed the BRIEFT editor (now owned by Borland) and TrackRecordT project/defect tracking tool (now owned by Compuware/NuMega). Both tools were the leaders in their respective markets, with more than 150,000 licenses sold. Before joining ChoiceStream, Mr. Strickman worked at Compuware Corporation (NuMega Lab), which acquired TrackRecord in 1998. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Brown University.
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