Ramsey Green

Senior Advisor

Professional Profile

Ramsey Green is a dynamic professional with 20 years of experience in operations and grants management, project and program delivery, and infrastructure financing. He is experienced in providing research, data and financial analysis, and communication services to public and private clients. He has extensive knowledge of funding opportunities and the experience to identify unique variables in those opportunities. As Deputy Chief Administrator for Infrastructure for the City of New Orleans he provided oversight of all operational and infrastructure departments, including $2.5 Billion in federal, local, and state funding. In this role he also accelerated the design and construction of green infrastructure, renewable energy, and sustainability/mitigation projects and helped facilitate the response to multiple disasters. Ramsey’s leadership is characterized by his commitment to excellence and his dedication to recovery, repairing, and rebuilding with resilient outcomes.

Representative Projects

Tulipan Solutions, LLC. – 2012 to 2018, 2018 to Present

• Provide research, database, financial, and communications services to public, private, and non-profit clients.
  Financial management services to utilities, government agencies, and companies.

• Grants management, research/data, and procurement assistance related to funding from the
  Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the Federal Emergency Management
  Agency (FEMA), and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

• Construction management services to public and private sector clients across the United States.

• Co-Founded MyStrongHome, an insurance/disaster mitigation/finance public benefit corporation, later acquired.

• Conduct operational and financial due diligence analytics for acquisitions of assets and companies.

Operating Partner

McCoy Equity Holdings – 2022 to Present

• McCoy Equity is a private equity firm with investments in companies within the disaster services, infrastructure/utilities, and renewable energy sectors with operations throughout the United States and world.
• Oversee firm’s due diligence, deal structure and financing, and manages the firm’s relationships with its portfolio companies and their leadership teams.

Deputy Chief Administrative Officer for Infrastructure / Chief Resilience Officer

City of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana – 2018 to 2022

• Took office immediately upon the inauguration of New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell in a newly designed role conceived in the wake of continued public infrastructure failures.
• Responsibilities included: overseeing all operational and infrastructure departments of city government, including more than $2.5 Billion in related federal, local, and state funds; provided city oversight of utility performance (water / sewer / drainage / electricity / gas /transit / levees); served as the operations and infrastructure lead for the city’s response to disasters, managing related coordination with state and federal agencies; and represented the mayor and the city in all related public communications.
• Built a strong, accountable, and empowered team and a culture of transparency, honesty, and effectiveness among the infrastructure and operations teams within the City of New Orleans
• Helped lead the City’s response to COVID-19, including the financial and operational decision-making during this crisis, during which New Orleans had among the highest rates of infection of anywhere in the world.
• Served as the City’s lead on the planning and coordination for funds coming from the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).
• Restructured the delivery of streets/sidewalks/bridges and sub-surface infrastructure projects, accelerating the spending of infrastructure funds from a rate of less than $10 million per year to delivering more than $650 million in construction annually, despite the impact of COVID-19, an economic downturn, and labor/materials challenges.
• Launched public online data dashboards to improve infrastructure operations, including repairing streets more rapidly, clearing drain lines regularly, and initiating sustainable, environment, and renewable energy projects.
• Accelerated the design and construction of more than $350 Million in federal and locally funded green infrastructure, renewable energy, and sustainability/mitigation projects that uniquely address impacts from climate change.
• Provide lead oversight for infrastructure operations of the annual Mardi Gras festivities and major special events.
• Designed the structure and priorities for a successful 2019 ballot initiative for $500 Million in infrastructure bonds, with over $380 Million in bonds issued in fall 2021, the first tax-exempt bonds the city had issued in nearly ten years and the largest issuance of infrastructure bonds in the city’s history.

Education

Master of Public Administration, Samuel Fels Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, 2012

B.A., Politics/Journalism,  Cum Laude with Honors in Politics (Concentration in International Relations), New York University, 2001

Skills / Certificates

Certificate in State and Local Government for Senior Executives, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Frederick J. Fischer Fellow, Harvard University, 2008

Areas of Expertise

• Operations Management
• Grants Management
• Infrastructure Programs
• Research / Data / Financial Analysis
• Communications
• Funding Opportunities
• Renewable Energy
• Sustainability and Mitigation