NeWay’s executive team and advisory board is comprised of thought leaders, real estate development professionals and successful entrepreneurs with first-hand experience creating value for communities and investors alike.
NeWay is a service mark owned by NeWay Capital, LLC.
EXECUTIVE TEAM
Erick A. Brimen
CEO & Chairman of the Board
A proven finance professional, team leader and serial entrepreneur, Erick is passionate about investing in life-enhancing opportunities that further human flourishing. Read More
Gabriel Delgado
CRO / Advisory Board Member
A prolific serial entrepreneur, Gabriel has brought to market 15 successful ventures across a variety or tech and finance related fields. He believes that same spirit of entrepreneurship and its interactions will foster personal growth, value creation, job opportunities and a prospering citizenry. Read More
Tom Murcott
Advisory Board Member & Development Officer
A seasoned veteran of the marketing and real estate development spheres, Tom has a proven track record of bringing multi-billion dollar master-planned developments from inception to reality. Read More
Nick Dranias
General Counsel
Dranias serves as NeWay’s General Counsel, handling all corporate legal matters. Prior to this, he was Senior Litigation Counsel with the Government Accountability & Special Litigation Unit of the Arizona Attorney General. He also serves as Policy Advisor and Research Fellow with the Heartland Institute, as an expert and Speaker’s Bureau member with the Federalist Society, a Law and Civil Liberties Speaker for Students for Liberty, a Council of Scholars member with Compact for America Educational Foundation, as well as an Adjunct Instructor teaching Business Ethics and Law at Grand Canyon University. Read More
Nicholas Jenkins
COO
As both an engineer and entrepreneur, Nick has spent his career at the intersection of new technologies and emerging markets. He is driven by his belief that platforms alleviating the pains of under-served markets can powerfully improve the world and earn outsized returns – a belief he honed after co-founding a boutique investment firm as a Venture Partner, along with Erick Brimen. Read More
Humberto Macias
Deputy General Counsel
Humberto serves as Deputy General Counsel of NeWay Capital. His interest in soft infrastructure underscores his latest two positions: assisting with the acquisition and operation of a private security firm in Mexico and assisting with the founding and operation of a private school for children with special needs in Singapore. Read More
ADVISORY BOARD
Chirag Shah 
Development, Finance, and Governance
Chirag Shah was the longest serving leadership executive of the Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC) from the start through its entire 12-year history taking leadership roles in strategy, business development, investment and transformation through its start-up, high growth, crisis and rejuvenation phases. Shah is a globally recognized Financial Services domain expert supporting growth and development in Banking, Capital Markets, Fintech, Financial Infrastructures, Insurance/Reinsurance, Real Estate, Wealth/Asset management and Regulatory Policy. Shah is also a sought-after lecturer in the realms of international finance and development, having given lectures to institutions such as International Monetary Fund, World Bank, International Institute of Finance, City Week London, Boao Asia Financial Forum, Harvard, and Wharton Business School.
Jeffrey Singer 
International Finance Center
Jeffrey Singer is the former CEO of the Dubai International Financial Center Authority (DIFC) and former CEO of Nasdaq Dubai. Singer led the DIFC out of the global financial crisis in 2008 and through a sustained period of rapid growth. Prior to his move to Dubai, Mr. Singer, was senior vice president of Nasdaq OMX Group, which runs stock markets in 26 countries around the world as well as clearing houses and central securities depositories. He currently teaches International Business, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Business Ethics at the American University of Sharjah.
Oliver Porter 
City Management
Board Member
Ott Vatter 
E-governance
Shanker Singham 
International Trade and Law
Shanker Singham is the Director of the International Trade and Competition Unit (ITCU) of the Institute of Economic Affairs. As one of the world’s leading international trade experts and competition lawyers, he has worked on the privatization of the UK electricity market, the transition of Central and Eastern European economies to capitalism and trade liberalization in Latin America.
Paul Critchlow 
Public Finance and Strategy
Paul Critchlow is the former Vice Chairman, Public Markets for Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Over 30 years, he headed global communications & public affairs at Merrill Lynch and then became lead municipal banker with governors, treasurers and mayors around the United States. He worked directly for five CEOs.
Over the past 50 years, he’s held leadership roles in business, government and journalism. Today, he advises Fortune 100 companies through his consulting firm, Black Cat Communications. At Merrill, he helped lead the company’s response to the September 11 terrorist attacks and many financial crises. From 1978-84, he was press secretary to Pennsylvania Gov. Dick Thornburgh, where he helped direct the state’s response to the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. Previously, he was chief political writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
A native Nebraskan, Paul is a decorated U.S. Army combat veteran of the Vietnam War. He holds communications degrees from Columbia University and the University of Nebraska-Omaha.
Patrik Schumacher 
Urban Development and Design
Jonathan Swanson 
Governance and Technology
Jonathan Swanson is Co-founder and President of Thumbtack, a billion-dollar online services platform. Swanson, a graduate of Yale University, worked for three years as an economic policy analyst for the White House before starting Thumbtack. Swanson brings expertise in the intersection of governance, economics, and technology to NeWay.
Uwe S. Brandes 
Urban Planning and Design
Joel Bomgar 
Policy and Industry
Board Member
Jan Michael Dieckmann 
Local Politics and Strategy
Michael Dieckmann is the Corporate Manager of Electronics and New Ventures for Inversiones La Paz SA. As Corporate Manager, Michael is responsible for Jetstereo SA the largest electronics distributor in Honduras serving both retail and B2B markets, the ALDO brand shoes stores for all of Central America, and the development of new investment opportunities for Inversiones La Paz. He also serves as the Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Michael Dieckmann is the president of Fundación Para la Educación Ricardo Ernesto Maduro Andreu FEREMA, one of the leading education NGOs in the country. FEREMA seeks to coordinate efforts with other NGOs and international aid agencies in order to ensure that governments have consistent education policies focused on long term objectives.
Michael Castle-Miller 
Special Jurisdictions and International Law