In her role as President and CEO of the Conventum Group, Emily served as Senior Policy Advisor for the Association for Improvement of American Infrastructure (AIAI), the nation’s leading association for Public Private Partnerships (P3). In this role, she was responsible for identifying, developing, and advocating for policies and regulatory changes that positively affected the industry with Congress and the Administration. Additionally, Emily served on numerous panels as a national expert in P3 and alternative delivery.

In addition to her work at AIAI, Emily has been responsible for leading project development strategies to address political, funding, and financing risks on a wide range of projects including traditional surface transportation projects, transit-oriented development projects, stadium development projects, rail, bridges, and water projects. Emily has successfully sought, secured, and protected hundreds of millions of dollars for projects.

Prior to founding the Conventum Group, Emily served in Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock’s administration as the Executive Director of the Office of Performance-Based Infrastructure. In this role, she led project development and procurement efforts with the private sector to complete major infrastructure projects and other programs through long-term, performance-based procurements. Previously, Emily served as Director of Federal and State Affairs for Mayor Hancock. In that role, she led the city’s federal and state affairs programs including strategy development and implementation of federal and state legislative and regulatory agendas as well as intergovernmental work. Her portfolio included transportation, housing, economic development, public safety, public health, and social services issues as well as strategic coalition building and campaign execution with the nation’s mayors and other local and state elected officials and associations. Emily spent much of her time advocating for the city of Denver’s priorities in Washington, DC and at the Colorado State Capitol.

Emily holds a master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Colorado, Denver and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Anthropology from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Mr. Ferrell started his professional career with Senator Conrad Burns (MT) in 1998 after graduating from the University of Montana with a Political Science and History Degree.  Mr. Ferrell gained valuable first-hand experience learning the inner workings of the US Senate, Senate Offices, as well as the Committee structures. Having worked for Senator Burns for two and a half years, Mr. Ferrell accepted the challenge of becoming the Legislative Director for Representative Rick Hill (MT-ALL).  Once again, Mr. Ferrell gained valuable experience this time in the House of Representatives, in how Representatives’ Offices are structured, as well as the Committees of the US House of Representatives.  Finally, Mr. Ferrell served as a Senior Staff Member to Rep. Joel Hefley (CO-05) for nearly years.

After leaving Washington D.C. for Colorado, Mr. Ferrell served as the Federal Liaison for the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) where he formulated and recommended policy positions for four Republican and Democrat Governors, numerous Executive Directors of CDOT, and the Colorado Transportation Commission. In this role, Mr. Ferrell led multiple state delegation trips to Washington DC on project and federal policy issues. These trips included CDOT’s Executive Directors, Transportation Commissioners, Key Senior Executive Officials and external stakeholder groups. Mr. Ferrell was a key advisor to both internal and external stakeholders on various transportation projects representing billions of dollars of investment across the State of Colorado through multiple federal transportation authorization bills. Mr. Ferrell represented CDOT at AASHTO and WAASHTO including AASHTO’s Reauthorization Committees and Financial Policy Committee. 
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In 2012, Mr. Ferrell departed the CDOT to start Michael Douglas Ferrell, LLC, a public policy firm based in Parker, Colorado.  Michael Douglas Ferrell, LLC was founded on three key principles: experience, value, and results to help his clients establish long-term positive relationships. Mr. Ferrell recognized the model for advocacy had changed at all levels of Government. Gone were the days that ‘good ideas’ or ‘good policy’ could stand on their own and to accomplish results, businesses and governments needed to establish long-term relationships with other elected officials. Mr. Ferrell believes that serving his clients with long-term established relationships at multiple levels of government leads to exceptional client value with positive results.