Garry Kimball,

Garry Kimball has served as a municipal financial advisor since 1993. He has represented city, county, school, special district, and utility authority clients on a vast array of public infrastructure projects involving both tax-exempt and taxable bond issuance. Mr. Kimball also has experience with public/private project finance, tender option bond re-purchase and multi-party conduit financing for regional public infrastructure projects. Mr. Kimball has served as lead advisor on over 1,000 separate bond transactions with a total principal value in excess of $10 billion.

Prior to joining the founding partners of Specialized Public Finance Inc., Mr. Kimball was a Senior Vice President with the investment banking firm First Southwest Company. During his 15 years with this firm, he was a member of the firm’s Operating Committee and a member of the firm’s Special District Underwriting Committee. Mr. Kimball also worked for Dresdner Bank AG in New York and Chicago and the Royal Bank of Canada in Chicago and Dallas between 1988 and early 1993. Mr. Kimball was a member of the Board of Directors of the Municipal Advisory Council of Texas in 2008.

Mr. Kimball was the lead financial advisor for the Copperas Cove By-Pass Project, which won the 2012 NADO Excellence in Regional Transportation award for Innovative Finance & Project Delivery and was awarded a Bond Buyer Deal of the Year in 2023 for advisory work related to the Greater Texoma Utility Authority’s financing of infrastructure to support a $30 billion reshoring of semi-conductor manufacturing capacity for Texas instruments.

Mr. Kimball graduated with high honors from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government & History. He also received his Master of Business Administration degree with a concentration in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a Series 50 Municipal Advisor Representative and a Series 54 Municipal Advisor Principal with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Mr. Kimball has known Parrish Collins, President of PLI, for over 40 years, and Parrish’s passion for the PLI cause drew Mr. Kimball to offer his time as a member of the PLI Board.