ATI Bulletin_June 2025 - Flipbook - Page 6
What makes the team at ATI so mindful of the importance of the
stakeholder engagement process?
Several members of our team have worked in the public sector.
For example, I spent six years in the Navy during the First Gulf War, and
during the global financial crisis, I helped build and oversee several of the
Department of Treasury’s public-private initiatives. Our co-founders have
also dedicated years of service to the public sector. Henry Cisneros served
as Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and as
two-time mayor of San Antonio. David J. Cibrian is a former member of the
Texas Finance Commission and the Texas Credit Union Commission.
Investing in infrastructure inevitably means interacting with the public sector,
and our collective experience gives us an understanding of its complexities
and regulations, as well as a level of appreciation for everyone at the table.
We’re particularly sensitive to the public sector dynamics and priorities,
which showed in our successful interaction with the Port Authority of New
York and New Jersey. A lack of understanding and appreciation for those
dynamics can cause frustration on both sides. There’s always going to be 100
steps, you can’t bypass any of them, and you can’t go from step one to step
20. The only thing you can do is move through the steps more efficiently.
Unfortunately, there's a natural distrust, to some extent, between private
capital providers and the public interest. But at ATI, thanks to the weight ATI
places on stakeholder engagement, we’re able to bridge what could be
described as friction between private capital and public sector initiatives.
We’ve always believed this to be a fundamental need as an infrastructure
investor. With the urgency for new infrastructure throughout the US, private
capital needs to step in where public financing is not enough.
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