Investor Relations

Ms. Valentine-Poska has served as a director of Iteris since July 2023. Ms. Valentine-Poska has over 30 years of experience in investment banking and financial services, and extensive experience advising technology and software companies.

Currently, she serves as Managing Director for Global Capital Markets, Inc., a global middle-market investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring and valuations. She joined the firm in 2017 when she was hired to establish and run the company’s Technology and Healthcare Practices for North America. Prior to that, Ms. Valentine-Poska was Partner and Founder of Valentine Properties, working with investors in the areas of real estate investment and financial services. Previously, Ms. Valentine-Poska worked for Deloitte & Touche LLP (“Deloitte”), where she served as a Partner and managed the Investment Banking Group in Los Angeles and Orange County, advising technology, software, and real estate companies on mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, and debt and equity financing. Prior to Deloitte, Ms. Valentine-Poska founded her own financial advisory firm, focused on technology and real estate, which she successfully sold after four years. 

In 2023, Ms. Valentine-Poska was recognized nationally by Opus Connect as one of the “Top 25 Women in M&A”. Currently, she serves on the Board of Directors of Empire Valuation Consultants, Inc., a New-York-based independent valuation firm, as well as the Advisory Board at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, an interdisciplinary facility for genomics research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Additionally, Ms. Valentine-Poska has served on various nonprofit boards. 

Ms. Valentine-Poska has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. from University of Southern California, where she graduated summa cum laude and Valedictorian. 

Key Competencies & Expertise:

•    Financial Sophistication
•    Growth and Value Creation
•    Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets
•    Technology
•    Sales & Marketing
 

Gary Hall has served as a director of Iteris since July 2023. Mr. Hall has spent his 35-year career in roles in investment banking/private equity, law, and government.  He possesses extensive infrastructure, public finance, and regulatory experience. 

Mr. Hall is currently a Partner and President of Infrastructure & Public Finance at Siebert Williams Shank & Co. LLC (“Siebert”), the nation’s largest minority-owned investment bank. Mr. Hall is a Principal and member of the Investment Committee for Clear Vision Fund, Siebert’s impact investment fund  At Siebert, he directs a team of approximately 75 people within 19 U.S. offices.  Mr. Hall is also a Partner at American Triple I Partners, an infrastructure private equity firm focused on transportation, energy, knowledge and information systems, and smart city investments. 

Before joining Siebert in June 2013 and Triple I in February 2019, Mr. Hall was an investment banker with JPMorgan Securities LLC from April 2001 to June 2013, where Mr. Hall assisted state and local governments with accessing funding for capital improvements and/or refinancing existing debt portfolios. Mr. Hall also worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group of Banc One Capital Markets, Inc., assisting both middle-market companies and financial sponsor firms with strategic alternatives, including dispositions, acquisitions and capital raises.

Prior to that, Mr. Hall was appointed a White House Fellowship and served as a Special Advisor to the Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance in the U.S. Department of Treasury. He was also a corporate finance attorney with Gardner, Carton and Douglas (now Faegre Drinker), where he represented and counseled institutional and entrepreneurial clients on securities, mergers, acquisitions and complex commercial transactions. Before his career in law, he worked in the Office of the Mayor for the City of Chicago, including posts with the City’s Office of Budget and Management. 

Mr. Hall currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (“SIFMA”) since November 2020, the Bay Area Council (Executive Committee) since July 2018, and is a Trustee for the National Recreation Foundation and the California Academy of Sciences. Mr. Hall also currently serves on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s (FINRA) Fixed Income Advisory Committee since May 2021, the Milken Institute’s Public Finance Advisory Board (Executive Committee) since January 2021, and the National Association of State Treasurers’ (NAST) Corporate Affiliate Board since December 2022. From October 2014 to September 2019, Mr. Hall served on the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB), the self-regulatory organization that safeguards the $4 trillion municipal securities industry. He served as chairman of the MSRB from October 2018 to September 2019. 

Mr. Hall received a B.B.A. in Finance from Howard University and J.D. from the University of Notre Dame. 

Key Competencies & Expertise:

•    Financial Sophistication
•    Growth/Value Creation
•    Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets
•    Sales & Marketing
•    Smart Mobility