Cham Villanueva

Cham Villanueva

Cham has almost 15 years’ experience in the eCommerce industry and has extensive background in Brand Marketing, Vendor Management, Customer Service, IT Project Management and Business Analysis with the ability and skill set to provide creative, innovative, enthusiastic and forward-thinking leadership in a team environment. She has great experience in overseeing all operational aspects of…

Angelica Dombrique

Angelica Dombrique

Angel is a highly accomplished and results-driven marketing professional with a wealth of experience in driving successful marketing strategies. As the Marketing Manager of Metro, they are responsible for overseeing all aspects of our marketing initiatives and campaigns. With a keen understanding of consumer behavior and market trends, Anfel possesses a proven track record of…

Bradley Lane., PhD

Bradley Lane., PhD

Dr. Lane joins Metro Analytics as a Senior Research Affiliate after thirteen years in academia. He does research on sustainability-themed research questions around technological, economic, and infrastructure developments in urban transportation, and he frequently utilizes quantitative methods and GIS in his work. His most recent research projects study what many call “the three revolutions” of…

Alden Copley

Alden Copley

is an accomplished urban and architectural researcher based in Brooklyn, NY. He is a Senior Researcher at the J. Max Bond Center for Urban Futures. In his role at the Bond Center, Alden conducts quantitative and qualitative research on Center projects located around the world, with many of them using building and community preservation as…

Phillip Strickland

Phillip Strickland

Phillip C. Strickland is currently a graduate student of applied anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He earned his BA in anthropology at East Carolina University, where he minored in history. There, he earned certifications in Cultural Resource Management(CRM) and Forensic Anthropology. As an applied anthropologist, Strickland practices a holistic, multifaceted, and…

Benjamin Blanchard

Benjamin Blanchard

Benjamin is a dedicated and accomplished scholar who recently graduated from UNC Charlotte with a Master’s of Arts degree in Anthropology. With a passion for understanding human-environment interactions, Benjamin focused their research on tree canopy protection networks in Charlotte. Specifically, their work aimed to investigate the challenges faced by these networks in achieving the established…

Gunnar Eubanks

Gunnar Eubanks

Gunnar has over 5 years of experience in economic analysis and research, as it pertains to agriculture, banking, and finance. As a Master of Science Student and research analyst, Gunnar worked on the financial analysis of farm operations in various industries and building a database of census data, economic indicators, and weather data dating back…

Pukar Bhandari

Pukar Bhandari

Pukar is a highly skilled and dedicated Transportation Planner/Analyst with a strong passion for optimizing transportation systems and creating sustainable urban environments. With a proficient command of software tools such as ArcGIS, Synchro/SimTraffic, and programming languages like R and Python, he possesses a deep interest in transportation data analytics, traffic modeling, and data visualization.  Having…

Wade Carroll, AICP

Wade Carroll, AICP

Wade Carroll has over twenty-five years of addressing a wide range of planning focus areas – including freight, economic development, land use, and multimodal transportation. His experience also includes working with a wide range of clients, including national cooperative research programs (CRPs), state DOTs, transit agencies, councils of governments (COGs), community improvement districts (CIDs), and…

Amiy Varma, PhD, PE, AICP, PTOE

Amiy Varma, PhD, PE, AICP, PTOE

Dr. Varma is a veteran planner, engineer, educator, researcher, and leader. His wealth of knowledge, analytical skills, experience, and perspectives have been crucial in cross-cutting research and consulting in planning, design, operation, financing, management, sustainability, and resilience of transportation infrastructure. For cumulative contributions over decades, Dr. Varma was recognized with Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement…

Frank Broen

Frank Broen

Frank Broen is a national expert in communicating complex transportation issues for planning, systems implementation, multimodal operations, forecasting and trends, and transportation data analytics. He also has 40+ years of experience helping communicate transportation issues on the local, state, and national level. He most recently served as Primary Investigator for NCHRP 52-16: Visualization of Highway…

Tony Furst

Tony Furst

Tony has 20+ years of executive level experience leading national level programs in freight operations and management, safety, and deploying innovative technologies and practices. Serving in positions of increasing scope and responsibility, he is experienced in establishing and implementing strategic direction, collaboratively engaging partners and stakeholders, solving complex problems across public and private organizations, developing…