January Luncheon 2010 - Maria Ayerdi-Kaplan

San Francisco?

Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce, San Francisco/Silicon Valley present;
an exclusive luncheon with

 Maria Ayerdi-Kaplan

@

(notice: different venue!)

Absinthe Brasserie & Bar

398 Hayes Street, San Francisco  

http://www.absinthe.com/

12 PM, January 29th

Maria Ayerdi-Kaplan is the Executive Director for Transbay Joint Powers Authority and in charge of the Transbay Transit Center Project - the largest approved public transportation project in the country. The $4.2 billion project will replace the current Transbay Terminal at First and Mission streets in San Francisco and the recreate the city center as we know it…

Maria Ayerdi-Kaplan

Executive Director, Transbay Joint Powers Authority

Maria Ayerdi-Kaplan is the Executive Director of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) and a former TJPA Board Member. Ms. Ayerdi-Kaplan, a member of the State Bar of California, has served as the Mayor of San Francisco's Transportation Policy Advisor and Project Director, the Vice-Chair on the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board; Deputy Director at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, and on the Executive Committee of the Association of Bay Area Governments. Ms. Ayerdi-Kaplan has been twice named one of the Most Influential Women in the Public Sector by the San Francisco Business Times and was named the 2007 Employee of the Year by the Northern California Chapter of the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO). She has also been honored as Woman of the Year by the San Francisco Chapter of the Women's Transportation Seminar and named one of the Most Influential Latinos in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Hispanic Chamber of Commerce for her work on the Transbay Transit Center project and was named one of San Francisco’s most influential people by 7x7 magazine.

Project Overview

The Transbay Transit Center Proejct in downtown San Francisco will transform transportation in California and stimulate the economy by building the “Grand Central Station of the West.” As the largest approved public transportation project in the country, the $4.2 billion project will replace the current Transbay Terminal at First and Mission streets in San Francisco wit ha modern regional transit hum connecting eight counties in the Bay Area and the State of California through ten transit systems; AC Transit, BART, Caltrain, Golden Gate Transit, Amtrak, Greyhound, MUNI, SamtTrans, WestCat and future High Speed Rail from San Francisco to Los Angeles.