Nolan V. Borgman is a Senior Transportation Planner in Metro’s Office of Extraordinary Innovation (OEI) responsible primarily for managing the Unsolicited Proposals Policy and process. Through this process, Nolan has worked with the private sector and Metro Departments to develop a range of low-cost, high impact innovation pilots and proofs of concept. Nolan has overseen the review of over 130 proposals, advancing over a dozen ideas from concept to implementation. In 2019, his work on the use of drones for data collection was recognized with Metro’s Innovation Award. He was also a member of the inaugural Women and Girls Governing Council that received Metro’s 2019 CEO Award for its recommendations to improve transportation outcomes for women and girls. Before helping to launch OEI, Nolan was a Transportation Planner in the Office of the CEO. Nolan joined Metro in 2013 as a Trainee with the Management Audit Services Department after completing the Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs in Los Angeles. He graduated cum laude from Occidental College with a degree in Urban and Environmental Policy. While at Oxy, he also studied abroad in Senegal and played two seasons of varsity soccer. He loves traveling, music, games, cats, and Philadelphia sports teams.