Ron Hartman

Ron Hartman is a consulting partner with Mobitas Advisors, offering advisory services based on his 35 years of experience in operations, infrastructure development, strategic planning, business development, and marketing in a public transportation and railroad environment.

He has just completed nearly five years leading Network Rail Consulting in North America, the international consulting arm of the British railway. Starting as the first employee, during that time he built a team of more than 45 professional staff, performing infrastructure and related work on most of North America’s largest rail networks. Hartman joined NRC from Transdev North America, where he was CEO of the rail division since 2008, leading that firm’s contract regional/commuter rail operations, as well as Transdev’s rail infrastructure maintenance and construction subsidiary.

Ron began his career with the American Public Transportation Association, working in policy, legislation, and technical support before becoming Deputy and then General Manager at Maryland’s Mass Transit Administration. He went on to serve as Senior Vice President for Planning and Development at Amtrak before joining Transdev as Executive Vice President-Mid Atlantic, Senior Vice President, and then CEO of the Rail Division. He is currently an adjunct faculty member in the Urban and Regional Planning Department at Georgetown University, and he leads and serves on the executive committee of several boards in the Baltimore-Washington region.