Carrie leads Brailsford & Dunlavey’s southwest region’s higher education advisory practice group out of its Austin, TX office. She has served as a development advisor on more than 50 higher education projects across the country and is one of B&D’s leaders in the delivery of P3 and program management services for educational institutions. Throughout her career she has focused on development advisory services for student housing, campus edge development, mixed use development, innovation districts, and athletics and recreation projects in the southern region and throughout the country. Carrie is a published author and speaker on topics ranging from P3 development advisory to higher education implementation and was a 2019 ENR Texas & Louisiana 20 Under 40 Top Young Professional and a 2019 P3 Awards Finalist for “Future Leader of the Year”.

Recently, University of Texas at Austin President Jay Hartzell announced that James E. Davis has been named senior vice president and chief operating officer (SVP and COO). As part of President Hartzell’s vision that UT Austin be the highest-impact public research university in the world, he unified the teams that develop, construct, maintain and operate university real estate, intellectual property, buildings, grounds, infrastructure, student housing and business services under Davis as SVP and COO. Davis is charged with marshalling these university resources to unlock impact and drive the strategic mission of UT. In his prior role as vice president for legal affairs and business strategies, Davis delivered on important outcomes for the University. As general counsel, Davis led the legal strategies on the development of the Moody Center, Innovation Tower, and UT’s entry into the SEC Athletic Conference. As the head of the Business Strategies team, under Hartzell’s leadership, Davis initiated the planning for multiple innovation districts on off-campus land, established the University’s first seed investment fund for startup companies based on faculty discoveries, acquired and defined the University’s first faculty housing solution, devised and implemented a public-private partnership solution for a new graduate student housing development, and shaped the first student housing scholarship fund sourced from rent revenue. “Jim has shown an exceptional ability to lead, including building great teams with positive cultures, solving hard problems creatively, and focusing on the University’s strategic goals and priorities,” Hartzell said. “A key part of our leadership team, he has helped the university bring even more of our discoveries to the world, and to better deploy all of our resources for the benefit of our mission. Jim practically grew up on the Forty Acres as the son of a Radio-Television-Film Department chair and has brought the embedded passion of a life-long Longhorn to his work over the last five years with the University. We are grateful for his continued service and commitment, and we know this expanded role will help advance our vision to make The University of Texas at Austin the highest-impact public research university.” “UT Austin employs extraordinary people who work together every day to provide a first-class campus experience for our students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends, and uniting our collective talent under a shared strategic vision makes our University even stronger,” Davis said. “This is the start of another exciting chapter for UT, and I’m thankful for the opportunity to work alongside this outstanding team.” Davis is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin and Harvard Law School. Prior to attending college, he served in the U.S. Navy as a cryptologist stationed in Scotland.

Sandy joined the Austin Area Research Organization (AARO) in March of 2020. In this role, she enjoys working with many of Central Texas’ thought-leaders focused on addressing the intractable challenges facing the region. Her work allows her to focus on the long-term rather than the skirmish of the day across many policy areas in which she has engaged during her career in Central Texas. Before her role at AARO, Sandy was the Legislative Director for Texas State Senator Kirk Watson. Initially focused solely on transportation policy, Sandy served as point on the development and implementation of the senator’s 10 Goals in 10 Years from the inception of the initiative in 2011. This work led to a redesign of the community healthcare safety net system, the creation of the UT Dell Medical School, enhanced mental health facilities and services and Seton’s commitment to build a new teaching hospital, the Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas, Austin. Sandy was intimately involved in the successful 2020 light rail election and ecstatic with the outcome. She remains engaged in ensuring the project comes to fruition. New to Austin in 2000, Sandy joined the campaign for light rail as Deputy Campaign Director. Although that effort was unsuccessful, it provided her the opportunity to get to know Austin, its elected officials and business and community leaders. Sandy subsequently joined the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce staff where she worked for eight years on local, state and federal policy, with a heavy emphasis on transportation, as Senior Vice President for Public Policy. Sandy relocated to Austin from Washington, DC where she worked for a Member of Congress following her graduation from The George Washington University with bachelor’s degrees in International Affairs and Latin American Studies. A California native, Sandy and her husband Robert are the proud parents of two young Texans.

odd is Managing Director of Gensler Austin. Under his leadership the office has grown from five professionals to nearly 100 in just 10 years. The mix of project types and sizes in the office’s portfolio reflects the diversity of Todd’s experience with commercial office buildings, hotels, mixed-use developments, master planning, and workplace interiors. Todd earned a reputation in the local market for his keen ability to understand the business of design and the economics of meeting his clients’ needs by engaging in strategic analysis of real estate options and finding creative design solutions. In 2016, Todd played an instrumental role in expanding Gensler’s presence into the San Antonio market with the opening of the San Antonio studio.