Booz Allen Hamilton Vice President Ed Crooks leads the firm’s activities in infrastructure project finance and innovative delivery within Booz Allen’s Defense business. For five years prior to coming to Booz Allen, Mr. Crooks was a Managing Director in KPMG’s Infrastructure Advisory practice. He has worked on high speed rail programs, highway projects in Texas, Florida, and Virginia, and water projects in Florida and New York. He was KPMG’s lead on the advisory team preparing Amtrak’s business and financial plan for the Northeast Corridor high speed rail program. All of these projects involved private financing and innovative contracting structures. Mr. Crooks has also advised private sector developers in the water sector and for several motorsports projects. Before joining KPMG, Mr. Crooks was with Bechtel Enterprises, the finance and project development arm of the Bechtel Group. He worked on a wide range of project finance assignments in power, natural resources, and transportation, and spent three years in London leading the project finance team for a Bechtel subsidiary in the water sector. Prior to joining Bechtel, Mr. Crooks was a civil engineer in Texas. He has an A.A.S. degree in civil engineering from Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.