Jon Ravenelle is a Senior Consultant at InfraStrategies with over a decade of professional experience. He focuses his practice on financial planning and financial strategy development, federal formula funding programs and funding administration, and regional transit governance.
Prior to joining InfraStrategies, Jon served as the Transit Funding Director for the Atlanta-region Transit Link Authority (ATL), where he led the stand up and development of the ATL as a new state Authority focused on regional governance within the 13-county metro Atlanta region. In that role, he led the evaluation and analysis of transit funding for the ATL’s Regional Transit Plan, developed recommendations and strategies for projects to be funded through the newly created Georgia Transit Trust Fund, and lead the administration of ATL’s role as Designated Recipient. Additionally, his team led the development of a Regional Zero Emission Fleet Transition Report and the development of the ATL RIDES app, an implementation project funded through the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Integrated Mobility Innovation (IMI) Program.
Prior to joining the ATL, Jon spent three years at the Georgia State Road and Tollway Authority (SRTA) where he managed the federal grants program and transit capital funding program of more than $150 million, securing over $85 million in discretionary funding, including $60.5 million in Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Trust funding and numerous FTA discretionary grant awards. Jon began his professional career at the Georgia Senate Budget and Evaluation Office where he led the budget development, review, and evaluation process for the Transportation and Economic Development Senate Appropriations Subcommittees.
Jon has also been an Instructor of Record at Georgia State University where he has had the opportunity to teach first-year students a Philosophy Critical Thinking course. Jon holds a Master of Public Policy and a Master of Philosophy from Georgia State University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Political Science from Merrimack College.