Making complexity navigable. Making sustainability real.

Kat Janowicz, MSME, MBA, CEM, ENV SP, is a leader, strategist, and researcher in transportation, energy, technology, and global trade. With three decades of experience, she has built strategic partnerships and engaged stakeholders across complex projects and initiatives in California and abroad.

As founder and CEO of 3COTECH, Inc., she has advised public and private clients, including the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, Metro, SCAG, Caltrans, and the Harbor Community Benefit Foundation, on clean technology and infrastructure, technology evaluation, strengthening competitiveness, and navigating risk in some of the most complex freight corridors in the world. She holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA, a combination that keeps one foot in the machine room and one in the boardroom. Her advisory work is grounded in hands-on experience managing renewable and nuclear power plant projects across North America and Europe.

Active in industry associations, she serves on several boards and coalitions advancing cross-sector collaboration across industries and regions, with a focus on advocacy, education, and regional competitiveness. She has helped organizations identify and secure funding through grants, partnerships, and fundraising, produced large-scale industry conferences and events, and led nonprofit organizations. A featured speaker at national and international conferences on ports, freight, sustainability, and economic development.

Through Cleantech Open and PortTech LA, she has advised innovators in technology commercialization, rebranding, and market positioning, and co-founded Braid Theory, Inc.

Her first book, Chasing Zero, tells the story of how the LA–Long Beach ports became the world’s cleanest, and what it cost, required, and revealed about the future of supply chains, innovation, and the workforce that powers it all. The book pulls back the curtain on the inner workings of the goods movement industry.

Strategic Partner · Business Development and Government Relations Consultant for City Builders

Mark brings 25+ years managing complex infrastructure, corporate strategy, and private procurement initiatives, including 15 years serving Fortune 500 companies. He received “Market Maker” recognition from a top-10 global construction firm and “Invaluable Project Contributions” recognition from Europe’s largest engineering conglomerate. As a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force Auxiliary, he earned two Meritorious Service Awards.

As principal of Kempton Strategies LLC, he provides business development and government affairs services to transportation and goods movement clients. Previously, he led Public-Private Partnership development for Skanska across Western North America—identifying and advancing projects through commercial and financial closure—and served as Director of Strategic Performance supporting executive strategy development.