John Porcari

John D. Porcari is a nationally-recognized public and private sector infrastructure leader, delivering some of America’s most challenging projects and driving the adoption of equitable, community-serving infrastructure policies and projects at the local, state and federal levels.

John is Managing Director for Public Policy & Partnerships at Investcorp Corsair Infrastructure Partners, responsible for originating new investment opportunities across the transportation, logistics and associated sectors, with a particular focus on large-scale public-private partnership transactions. Porcari serves on the on the Board of Directors of Investcorp Corsair’s wholly-owned platform Vantage Airport Group, which recently completed the award-winning transformation of LaGuardia airport through a public-private partnership, and operates 10 airports around the world. 

Porcari recently completed a temporary role as the White House Port & Supply Chain Envoy, leading a series of operational and structural changes to relieve the pandemic-induced global stresses on the US supply chain. 

John also serves on the Board of Directors of STV, Inc., a national architecture and engineering firm.  Porcari is also a member of MITRE’s Aviation Advisory Committee and is currently serving as co-chair of the Aviation Supply Chain Integrity Coalition, an industry-led group dedicated to preventing the entry of counterfeit and unauthorized aircraft parts into the aerospace supply chain that recently received an Aviation Week Aerospace Laureate award.

Porcari is co-founder of the Equity in Infrastructure Project (EIP), a national non-profit dedicated to creating generational wealth for Historically Underutilized Businesses through voluntary public agency pledges to grow these businesses from subcontractors to prime contractors and joint venture partners.  He also serves on the boards of the non-profit Center for Transportation & the Environment (CTE), a pioneer in electrifying transit fleets, port and airport ground handling equipment; ASPIRE, an NSF-sponsored research university/industry consortium leading the R&D and commercial implementation of static and dynamic wireless EV charging technology; and the University of Dayton Human Rights Center. 

Porcari previously served as Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation (2009-2014) after being nominated by President Obama and unanimously confirmed by the US Senate.  As Chief Operating Officer of a department with 55,000 employees worldwide and an annual budget of $77 billion, he led the department’s highly successful implementation of the $48 billion transportation component of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, TIGER grants, loan and credit programs and the reinvigoration of Buy America requirements by working directly with Governors, Mayors and County Commissioners across the country.

Prior public sector leadership positions include twice serving as Secretary of the Maryland Department of Transportation (1999-2002 and 2006-2009), restructuring America’s only truly multi-modal state transportation agency to incorporate the principles of Smart Growth, using Community Benefits Agreements to ensure equity in transportation projects and successfully delivering a number of multi-billion dollar transit, airport, port, passenger/freight rail and highway projects throughout the state.  

Porcari has also served in economic development and environmental planning positions at the state and local government level, and as COO for the University of Maryland.  John obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Dayton and a Masters of Public Administration from the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, State University of New York at Albany.  

A native of Rochester, NY, John, his wife Heidi and their 5 children are proud residents of Cheverly, Maryland, where they are in the 33^rd year of a 5-year renovation project of their Sears Roebuck bungalow.