Dr. Michael F. Horodniceanu has served as a director since May 2018. Dr. Horodniceanu has been a professor and Chair of the Institute of Design & Construction Innovation Hub at the New York University (“NYU”) Tandon School of Engineering, Department of Civil and Urban Engineering, an engineering and applied sciences university, since June 2018. He also has been a principal at Urban Advisory Group, Inc., an urban strategy consultancy, since July 2017. From July 2008 to June 2017, he served as President of New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (“MTA”) Capital Construction Company, a subsidiary of the MTA that manages the MTA’s major capital projects in the New York metropolitan area, where he managed a $23 billion transportation capital program, the largest such program in the United States. Dr. Horodniceanu has served as Chairman of the Faculty Advisory Board of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering since 1992 and as Chairman of the Architecture, Engineering and Robotics Commission of the New York City Department of Education Career and Technical Education program since 2017. In addition, since 2001 he has been a director of the Community Service Society of New York. Since January 2021, Dr. Horodniceanu has also served as a strategic advisor to SwissPod Technologies, a privately held Swiss-based company that is developing Hyperloop products. Dr. Horodniceanu brings to the Board over 40 years of academic and industry experience, and over 30 years of executive management experience. Dr. Horodniceanu holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, a Master of Science in Engineering Management from Columbia University and a Doctor of Philosophy in Transportation Planning and Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of NYU. Dr. Horodniceanu is a licensed Professional Engineer.