Transportation 2025: MEMORY, BEAU

Memory started with Transurban, an Australian transportation company operating express toll lanes in Northern Virginia, in November 2023 after serving as executive director of the Public Highway Authority in Denver.

He oversees 155 employees and the company’s toll lanes on the Capital Beltway and i terstates 95 and 395, as well as the A25 Bridge in Montreal. Transurban’s North American fiscal 20 4 revenue totaled $349 million. Before working in Denver, Memory was chief operating officer at the North Carolina Department of Transportation and executive director of the North Carolina Turnpike Authority In November 2024, Transurban opened the estimated $69.7 million 95 Express Lanes Opitz Boulevard ramp in Woodbridge. Later this year, it plans to open an additional 2.5 miles of 495 Beltway express lanes.

A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Memory serves on the board of the Pentagon Memorial Fund, which raises money to support the Pentagon 9/11 Memorial. He’s also a member of boards for the Greater Washington Board of Trade and the Eno Center for Transportation.

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