Jim Ziglar is a Principal at Rebel, where focuses on advising federal, state, and local government and private sector entities on the funding, financing, procurement, and operation of infrastructure assets. He has over 30 years of experience in US municipal finance, project finance, and strategic consulting as a financial advisor, investment banker, derivatives marketer, and management consultant. His experience includes Public-Private Partnerships (P3), project financings, municipal financings, project prioritization, benefit-cost analysis, and long-term funding analysis, particularly in the social infrastructure (government facilities), transportation, energy, and water sectors. Recently, he has worked on P3 and innovative finance projects for Miami-Dade County, FL, Volusia County, FL, Clackamas County, OR, Baltimore, MD. In addition, he is leading the team supporting the Washington State Department of Transportation in standing up its P3 program.

Ross N. Jones, CPA, is Chief Financial Officer of the Jacksonville Aviation Authority. He joined the JAA in 2016, previously serving in the role of Director of Finance. He was promoted to Chief Financial Officer in October 2020. He has more than 20 years of airport industry and financial experience.

Mark recently joined Mesa Power Solutions as Chief Commercial Officer, overseeing all revenue producing aspects of Mesa’s business.  Mesa Power is an original equipment manufacturer of utility-scale generators that are built in the USA out of Mesa’s manufacturing facilities in San Antonio, Texas and Casper, Wyoming, with more than 2 gigawatts of annual manufacturing capacity.  Mesa works with municipal utilities, cooperatives, investor-owned utilities, and data center developers to design, build, install and service natural gas generation fleets.

Prior to joining Mesa, Mark spent more than 30-years as a municipal power banker, covering municipal utilities and electric co-ops, most recently with J.P. Morgan.  Mark left banking in 2023 to join NextEra’s power development team before moving to Mesa in December, 2025.

Joe Abramson is an Executive Director in Morgan Stanley’s Tax‑Advantaged Structured Finance group, where he leads the Utilities, Circular Economy, and Energy Transition team. With more than 16 years of investment banking experience, he specializes in structuring complex municipal and private sector transactions across the circular economy, energy transition, water, wastewater, and waste to value sectors. Joe has spent his entire career at Morgan Stanley, beginning as an intern and advancing into a national advisory role known for quantitative depth and innovative structuring.

Joe has executed some of the nation’s most significant water and utility‑related financings, including transactions for the City of Fort Lauderdale, Miami-Dade County, the City of Lake Worth Beach Utility System, the Carlsbad Desalination P3 Project, the Texas Water Development Board, The Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority, Capital Region Water, Fairfax County Water and Sewer, and The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District. His work supports large‑scale water infrastructure, treatment, reuse, and long‑term system resilience.

He holds a B.S. in Information Systems and Operations Management from the University of Florida and an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Luke Gildner is the Managing Director and Analytical Manager for the Charter Schools team at S&P Global Ratings. In this role, Luke leads a national team of 15 analysts engaged in credit analysis, thought leadership, and market outreach for charter schools, independent schools, and community colleges and districts. Luke’s additional areas of expertise include private and public colleges and universities, cultural institutions, stand-alone hospitals and health systems.
Luke joined S&P Global in August 2013 after completing his graduate degree. Prior to that, he worked as a Stockbroker for an online brokerage firm focusing on trade execution and client education.
Luke holds a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame and a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Clemson University.