Sharon Greene is a founding Partner of InfraStrategies. She has been at the forefront of innovation in transportation and infrastructure development and finance for more than 45 years. Sharon is a specialist in transportation economics, infrastructure finance, and transportation planning, with experience throughout the US and abroad. She has led projects and managed programs in public transit, and high speed, intercity, and commuter rail; highways and toll facilities; and freight and goods movement. Sharon provides financial consulting services to many agencies that are currently in various stages of the FTA CIG process; agencies pursuing USDOT competitive funding and financing opportunities, including MEGA, INFRA and RAISE grants and the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and innovation Act (TIFIA) and Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) federal loan programs; and agencies pursuing state and regional discretionary funding. Her financial consulting services were instrumental in obtaining capital funding for agencies including Chicago Transit Authority, LA Metro, Boston MBTA, San Antonio VIA, Utah Transit Authority, Valley Metro Rail (Phoenix), Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Albuquerque, Jacksonville, and Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transit (HART). Her work has been cited frequently by USDOT, FTA, and her public sector clients as representing the state-of-the-art in financial analysis for transportation capital investment. Among her major accomplishments, Sharon was founding Executive Director of the Los Angeles-San Diego Rail Corridor Agency, the first intercity rail joint powers authority in the country. She also developed and managed the multi-billion dollar financial plans for implementation of the 5-county Metrolink commuter rail system and the Alameda Freight Corridor serving the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
Sharon has also devoted her energies to contribute substantially to the transportation industry by active participation in APTA, Transportation Research Board, Association for the Improvement of American Infrastructure (AIAI), US High-Speed Rail Association, California Transit Association (CTA), and other public transportation related organizations. In her involvement with APTA, Sharon was Chair of the Business Member Board of Governors and a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors. Currently, she chairs the Federal Funding, Finance, and Tax Policy Legislative Subcommittee, co-chairs the Finance Subcommittee of the Intercity and High-Speed Rail Committee, is immediate past chair of the Innovative Funding, Finance, and P3 Committee, and is a member of the Legislative Steering Committee. Active in TRB, Sharon chairs the Socioeconomic and Finance Subcommittee of the Passenger Rail Committee. She also co-chair the Sessions Subcommittee of the Economics and Finance Committee. Sharon was the first private sector member selected to Chair the Transit Cooperative Research Program.
For her contributions to the public transportation and rail industry, Sharon was recognized by COMTO as a 2017 Woman Who Moves the Nation and selected as one of Railway Age’s Women In Rail. She was APTA Business Member of the Year in 2011. She was inducted into the APTA Public Transportation Hall of Fame in 2023.
In addition to her professional work, Sharon has held leadership positions in key industry organizations, including APTA, Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP), and the Transportation Research Board (TRB).