Bo Kemp
Senior Director - Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting
Overview
Newark, New Jersey Business Administrator (Chief Operating Officer)
Bo spent the first decade of his professional career in finance with Morgan Stanley & Co. and TSG Capital Group, a private equity group. Then, after leading Cory A. Booker’s successful transition to the office of Mayor of Newark, N.J., Bo became the city’s Business Administrator (COO). In his three years with , Booker (now a U.S. Senator), Bo and the senior leadership team helped Newark evolve from a city close to bankruptcy to a community growing in population for the first time in 40 years.
In this role, Bo oversaw all 5,000 city employees and the operations of the city, including public safety (police and fire), economic development, child and family well-being, public works and administrative services. He also was responsible for all state and federal lobbying, union negotiations, and emergency management/ homeland security preparedness.
Senior Advisor to Mayor in Gary, Indiana
After leaving Newark, Bo returned to entrepreneurial endeavors until 2011, when he became senior advisor for another mayor, Karen Freeman-Wilson of Gary, Indiana, and executive director of the Gary Economic Development Corporation. Bo’s efforts in Gary included overseeing the Gary Sanitary District (waste and storm water), negotiating the city’s new residential waste collection contract, implementing the Mayor’s Clean Technology integrated waste and blight elimination strategy, and helping to guide and negotiate a $100 million public-private partnership with the Gary/Chicago International Airport. He also spearheaded neighborhood transformation through implementation of several federal and philanthropic grants.
Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting
Bo’s work at Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting has included P3 work with the Illinois Lottery, P3 work with electric vehicle infrastructure companies, growth strategies for philanthropic advocacy organizations as well as strategic and advisory work with other cities around the country.
Bo is a consulting professional within Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting, and does not act as a lawyer for clients. Learn more about the Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting practice.
Personal Interests
Bo enjoys traveling and hopes to visit 100 countries in his lifetime. He’s a dangerous golfer (and not in the good way) but an aspiring aquaponics and micro farmer.
Services & Industries
Credentials
Education
Harvard Business School
M.B.A. (1998)
Yale University
B.A. in Economics (1991)
Experience
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2018 1 min readState of Illinois Privatizes Illinois LotteryGovernment & Regulatory Economic Development & Government Efficiency Business & Transactions Contracting & Procurement Public Sector Finance & Transactions
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2018 1 min readCity of Gary Develops Municipal Port AuthorityReal Estate, Construction & Environmental Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting Government & Regulatory Economic Development & Government Efficiency Real Estate Development
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2018 1 min readPrivate Company Develops Strategy to Support Electric Vehicle Infrastructure PlanRenewable Resources Energy & Natural Resources Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting Government & Regulatory Economic Development & Government Efficiency
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2017 1 min readMunicipal Mayors Receive Transition SupportFaegre Baker Daniels Consulting Government & Regulatory
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January 2014 1 min readGary/Chicago International Airport Completes P3 DealGovernment & Regulatory Economic Development & Government Efficiency Business & Transactions Public Sector Finance & Transactions
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1 min readIntegrated Waste Partnership Strategy Creates Efficiencies, Cost SavingsFaegre Baker Daniels Consulting Government & Regulatory Economic Development & Government Efficiency Contracting & Procurement
Insights & Events
Latest
Insights
Other Perspectives
- The Story of Industrial Cities: Their Struggles, Revitalization and Rebranding
Panel moderator, Urban Land Institute Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI, May 2018 - Pari-Passu — The Gary Chicago International Airport Public-Private Partnership
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois-Chicago (forthcoming) - The Dangers of Local P3s
Infrastructure Investor Magazine, 2014
Leadership & Community
Civic Activities
- Detroit Works Project — Peer Review Committee, 2012
- New Rochelle (New York) Citizens — Budget Panel Review Committee, 2014
- Young Tycoon Fund, New York City — Founder and Chairman, 1996-present
- Marathon Foundation, New York City — Board Member, 2013-present
- Gary Economic Development Corporation — Executive Director, 2015-present