Who We Are

Principals & Consultants

Stew Stone – Development Director, Willamette Intermodal Group

Stew Stone has been a Real Estate Broker since 1975, Commercial Broker since 1985 with Prudential Real Estate and Berkshire Hathaway. Real Estate Developer since 1990. Co-owned & Developed four Shopping Centers totaling more than 200,000 SF of Retail and Restaurant space. Co-owned and developed more than 2,000 residential lots in multiple subdivisions in Salem, Albany, and Redmond, Oregon and Horn Rapids Master Planned Golf Course Community in Richland, Washington. Founding Director of Willamette Valley Bank, with seat on the Board of Directors for 15 years. Mr. Stone specialized in working with Regional, National, and Fortune 500 Companies to meet their development and expansion needs, including site procurement for a regional retail chain of 20 locations in Oregon, and 24 locations for a regional restaurant chain in Oregon, the Puget Sound Area of Washington, and Sacramento, California.

David Anzur – Transportation Consultant, Anzur Logistics, LLC

David Anzur has, since 2014, provided consulting services to short line railroads, shippers, and other transportation clients as to infrastructure grants, industrial development, due diligence, and operational optimization analysis. Before then David spent 14 years at Genesee & Wyoming Inc.’s Portland & Western Railroad, serving as the Director of Finance & Accounting and later Director of Marketing & Sales. Anzur is Chair of the Oregon Freight Advisory Committee, an Oregon Legislature appointed committee to advise the Director and Oregon Transportation Commission on issues, policies, and programs that impact multimodal freight mobility in Oregon.

Robert (Bob) Robertson – Corporate Finance Consultant

Bob has more than 30 years of finance and accounting-related experience and recently retired from Daimler Trucks North America as the General Manager of Accounting NAFTA. Throughout his career he held numerous positions in planning and reporting, corporate finance, and project management. He is a CPA (Inactive) and currently volunteers time and expertise to not-for-profit organizations and has consulted with the Oregon Port of Willamette on the development and maintenance of financial operations.

Rob Smith – Director of Transportation and Logistics, Willamette Intermodal Group

Rob Smith brings more than 30 years of railroad and steamship experience to the Willamette Intermodal Group. Rob previously worked for the Port of Portland as the Marine Business Development Senior Manager for containers and automobiles. That, coupled with his year in operations with the BNSF Railroad and extensive steamship marketing and logistics experience provides Willamette Intermodal Group with a solid all-around logistics and transportation base to draw from. Specialized projects have been a large part of his career success and providing a work-around in the ever-changing logistics/transportation market will be invaluable. Rob has also run barge, truck, and rail operations in the Pacific Northwest and brings an extensive list of contacts, and project management expertise that will supply a critical piece of the puzzle for the logistics needs ahead.