Katie Zehnder, PE, PTOE, AICP serves as a Digital Infrastructure Solutions Leader with HNTB and has 27 years of experience leading teams to achieve innovative and complex transportation infrastructure and modernization programs. She currently leads a team focused on advanced air and ground mobility, communications network design, smart cities, and electrification. Many of their projects have a policy and financial analysis component. Her team serves DOTs, local, transit, tollway, and airport clients across the U.S. Katie has a bachelors in civil engineering from Union College in Schenectady, NY and an MBA in management information systems from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. She lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband and daughter.

