Jacobs Consultancy Airport Management Consulting
Overview
Warren J. Adams
Jim Baker  
Spencer A. Ballard  
Eric E. Bernhardt
David Biggs  
Matthew A. Bol  
C. F. Booth
Bruce J. Boudreau
Michael Brown
Kenneth A. Bukauskas
Tony B. Campbell
Marjorie Brink Coridan
Thomas L. Cornell
Theresa Coutu
Nicholas Davidson
Gary Davies  
Greg M. Detmer
William J. Dunlay
Sheri Ernico
Bill Flock  
Karen George
Jean Claude Gourgon  
Gordon B. Hamilton  
Mark R. Johnson
Gene Lewis
Boris V. Loobkoff
Mark E. Lunsford
J. William K. Lye  
Peter Mackenzie-Williams
Don Maddison
Peter B. Mandle
Surjeet Mangat  
Francois Martel  
Paul McKnight
Evert Meyer  
Dianna Millar  
Chris Mirfin  
Simon Morris  
Brian Nadreau
Amir Neeman
Cindy A. Nichol
W. Daniel Ochse
Christopher J. Oswald
Linda J. Perry
Justin Powell
S. Satyaki Raghuntath  
Neil Raynor  
Nora Richardson
Ernest S. Rogers
Alistair Sherret
Jim Slavin  
Mark D. Taylor
Tracy Thompson
Michael D. Tubridy  
Alceste Venturini  
Thomas A. Walsh
Andy Wilson
Max A. Wolfe
Holland Young
Darcy Zarubiak






Key Staff

Sheri Ernico

Title: Director

Office: Belmont, California

Practice Area/Specialization: Financial feasibility, airline use and lease negotiations, business and financial strategy development

Sheri Ernico has 27 years of experience in airport financial and economic analysis, including strategic financial planning, capital program development, financial feasibility studies for more than $4 billion in bonds, rates and charges analyses, passenger facility charge (PFC) and grant programs, privatization assessments and analyses, institutional reviews,  air cargo financing evaluations, fuel system business planning, aviation market analyses, and forecasts of aviation demand. Sheri has helped numerous airport operators develop financial policies to address short-term challenges and meet long-term strategic financial goals. Sheri also participated in privatization initiatives in Argentina, South Africa, Spain, and the United States. She served from 1995 -2000 as the organizer and leader of the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) Airport Rates and Charges Workshop and from 1990-2000 conducted the Finance Module at the University of California, Berkeley, Airport Systems Planning and Design short course.. Representative Projects:

Client/Airport

Projects

Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority

Raleigh-Durham International Airport

Strategic financial planning for Terminal C Expansion and Redevelopment Program

PFC application development and preparation, and amendments

Financial Feasibility Studies for 2005, 2006, and 2007 Bonds totaling $577 million for Terminal C

Tucson Airport Authority

Tucson International Airport

CIP financial planning
Airline negotiation assistance

Revisions to bond master indenture
2006 Financial Feasibility Study in support of terminal expansion

County of Sacramento, Department of Airports

Sacramento International Airport

Financial planning in support of $1.8 billion CIP

Assistance in airline negotiations

Assistance in benefit cost analysis and LOI

Participation in drafting new bond master indentures

Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, Orlando International Airport

2002 Financial Feasibility Study

Strategic financing planning and support for negotiation of new airline use and lease agreement

Assistance in bond rating presentations

Orange County, John Wayne Airport

Financial Analysis and Preliminary Financial Plan for $512 million Airport Capital Improvement Program

PFC application development and preparation in support of ACIP

Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority

Bob Hope Airport

2005 Financial Feasibility Study

Assistance in drafting new bond resolution

Federal Aviation Administration

The Impact of Air Carriers Emerging from Bankruptcy on Hub Airports, Airport Systems, and U.S. Capital Bond Markets

Massachusetts Port Authority

Boston-Logan International Airport

Strategic Financial Planning and Financial Feasibility Analyses in Support of a $2 Billion Multi-year Airport Capital Program

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

John F. Kennedy International Airport

Financial Feasibility Study for a $934 Million Special Facility Bond Issue for New International Arrivals Building (Terminal 4)

Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority

Harrisburg International Airport

Negotiation of new airline use and lease agreements

Conversion from state-owned to authority-owned airport system

Master plan financial analyses

Allegheny County Airport Authority, Pittsburgh International Airport

Financial Feasibility Studies in support of $800 million Midfield Terminal

Negotiation of airline use and lease agreement

Traffic forecasting

City of Cleveland, Cleveland International Airport

Financial Feasibility Studies in support of $800 million CIP

Negotiation of special facility terminal lease agreement for Continental Airlines expansion

Prior Experience:
Sheri previously held the position of the Finance Director for San Francisco International Airport, where she directed the capital and operating budgets, bond issues, airline rate setting, PFC applications, risk management, AIP grant strategies, traffic and concession reporting, airline coordination on capital projects and rates and charges, developing a new investment policy for the Airport, and the financial strategy for the runway reconfiguration project.

Sheri Ernico
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+1.650.759.8430