Dr. Thomas “Danny” Boston, CEO of EuquantThomas “Danny” Boston is an entrepreneur and educator. He is the founder and CEO of EuQuant and a Professor of Economics in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech. He is also a regular economics contributor to CNN. He received the Ph.D. Degree in Economics from Cornell University. Dr. Boston is the author of six books and numerous scholarly articles. He is the past President of the National Economic Association, previous editor of The Review of Black Political Economy, past Senior Economist to the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, former member of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank Advisory Council on Small and Midsize Businesses, and past economic advisor to four mayors of Atlanta. A national and international consultant, he served as an advisor to the Nigerian National Assembly House Committee on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and South African Free State Legislature on MDGs.  Dr. Boston has testified numerous times before committees of the US House of Representatives and the Senate and in April, 2012, he was invited to the White House to discuss the state of African Americans during the economic recovery.

Dr. Catherine L. Ross, VP of Euquant

Dr. Catherine Ross is a distinguished, educator, researcher and practitioner.  Ross serves as the Vice President and Director of Urban and Transportation Research for EuQuant.  She is Professor of City Planning at Georgia tech and Director of the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development. Dr. Ross has over 30 years of experience in transportation planning, urban planning, quality growth and land use planning.  She served as the First Executive Director of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority and has supervised numerous transportation studies.  She has published dozens of articles and two books. Dr. Ross serves on the White House Urban Affairs Task Force, is the former President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and member of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences.  Through her position as Director of the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development at Georgia Tech, where she is also a professor in city planning, Dr. Ross has had a major influence on new regional approaches to transportation planning and infrastructure planning.  As Director of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority she created the first regional transit system in the Metropolitan Atlanta, achieved environment attainment status for the Atlanta 13 county region, and led major initiatives in transportation planning and environmental sustainability.