David Dech The South Florida Regional Transportation Authority (SFRTA), which operates the Tri-Rail commuter rail service that links Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, has hired David Dech as its new Executive Director, replacing Steven Abrams. Dech, who currently serves as the vice president of rail operations...
Walker & Dunlop, Inc. announced today that it has continued the expansion of its affordable housing finance team with the addition of Senior Director Ryan Smith and Associate Director Betsy Blau. Based in Walker & Dunlop's Nashville, Tennessee office, the team is focused on growing the firm's financing of affordable multifamily...
Walker & Dunlop, Inc. announced today that it has hired Paul Darrow as Managing Director on its multifamily investment sales platform. Mr. Darrow is based in Los Angeles and is responsible for originating and executing on middle market multifamily property sales throughout Greater Los Angeles. Paul Darrow, Managing Director Managing Director Blake Rogers commented, "We...
Randy Clarke, a public transit CEO from Austin, Texas, is WMATA’s new general manager. He will face a series of challenges getting the country’s second-largest transit agency back on track. His full plate on day one includes getting the 7000-series train wheel issues figured out, working on Metro’s safety...
Trinity Metro will be under new leadership starting June 20 following an eight-month nationwide search for a new CEO and president. Richard Andreski will join the agency from Connecticut, where he has served as the bureau chief for public transportation since 2015. He will replace interim CEO and...
MARTA’s board of directors has approved an approximately $250,000 contract for a search firm to find its next general manager and CEO. Former General Manager and CEO Jeffrey Parker committed suicide in January, being struck by one of MARTA’s own trains. Collie Greenwood, the transit agency’s deputy...
The Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District (METRO) on Friday announced it has named Michael Tree its new CEO/General Manager. Tree has nearly three decades of experience in the public transit industry and city management, most recently as Executive Director of the Livermore Amador Valley Transit Authority,...
The Denton County Transportation Authority board approved K&A Partners as the firm to initiate the search for a new CEO. The March 24 board decision comes after former CEO Raymond Suarez announced his resignation March 7. Former Deputy CEO Paul Cristina is serving as interim CEO. Funds...
As New York City’s subway system, the nation’s largest, lurches out of the throes of a pandemic that has drained it of millions of riders and the fares they pay, it will have a new permanent leader for the first time in more than two...
Today, the Valley Metro Board of Directors announced Jessica Mefford-Miller as the agency’s new Chief Executive Officer. Mefford-Miller joins Valley Metro with 15 years of experience connecting people and places through transit in the St. Louis, MO region. She joins the agency after coming out...
