Who We Are
Policy Innovation was founded to help investors better understand and manage challenges and opportunities in the municipal market. The firm's intellectual capital allows it to deliver more value to its clients than any other firm in the industry.
PI's Founder
Timothy M. Maniccia is the founder of PI. Before launching this venture, Tim served as the Senior Policy Advisor to Joseph J. Lhota, the New York City Deputy Mayor for Operations. In this capacity, he researched and analyzed, from a policy and political perspective, federal, state and local issues as they pertained to the City of New York. In addition, Tim advised the City's Director of Intergovernmental Affairs on federal and state policy strategy. He also edited and distributed his first daily "e-zine" covering important policy and political issues.
Prior to his service with the City of New York, Tim served as the Executive Director of the New York State Government Finance Officers' Association, Inc. (NYS-GFOA). During his tenure, the Association averaged annual revenue growth of ten percent while holding expenditures flat, thus turning large, projected annual losses into actual profits.
Tim studied in the doctoral program in Public Policy Analysis at UNC-Chapel Hill. He has provided advice to the State of North Carolina Department of Commerce, the North Carolina Alliance for Competitive Technologies, and the North Carolina Board of Science and Technology. He also collaborated on a number of policy research projects at UNC-Chapel Hill, and taught an undergraduate class in political feasibility.
Prior to his experience in North Carolina, Tim served as a Senior Policy Analyst with the New York State Assembly Ways & Means Committee where he focused on state and local government finance issues. He has served in many other finance and public policy capacities since 1986.
Tim holds a Master of Public Administration degree from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University at Albany. He is a member of the Municipal Analysts Group of New York, the Government Finance Officers' Association, the Turnaround Management Association and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
Tim and his wife Marjorie are the proud parents of two girls, Caroline and Julia.
The PI Team
In today's complicated, 24/7 marketplace, no single organization possesses all the assets that are necessary to deliver significant value. As such, PI has formed alliances with a number of globally competitive communications, financial, legal, managerial, and technology specialists that complement its core know-how. PI manages this vast compilation of resources and brings it to each and every client engagement.