Robert A. Briant, Jr.
In four decades of advocating for New Jersey contractors, Robert A. Briant, Jr., has become a champion of transportation investment.
Serving as CEO of the UTCA of New Jersey since 2006, Briant has continued in the footsteps of his father Robert Sr., who held the same position for 33 years starting in 1973. With the membership’s help, father and son built UTCA into the Garden State’s most effective voice for investing in transportation, water, and utility infrastructure.
A confidante of the state’s governors, legislative leaders and transportation officials from both parties, Robert Jr., has led efforts to pass two dozen laws that are shaping the state’s infrastructure network and the work environment for contractors building it. Most notable was his leadership of a broad-based coalition that pushed for a transformative renewal of the state’s Transportation Trust Fund in 2016. It included a long-overdue fuels tax increase and unprecedented 8-year capital program that is putting that new revenue to work.
