– The DART Board of Commissioners announced today that Amanda Wanke is their choice to lead the Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART) as Chief Executive Officer. Well known to DART and the Greater Des Moines community, Wanke worked at DART for seven years...
Mona Babauta will be the new CEO and General Manager of the SunLine Transit Agency. Babauta will start on Aug. 7. Babauta has 26 years of public service experience in California, with 24 of those positions involving public transit throughout the San Francisco and Los Angeles...
The Corpus Christi Regional Transportation Authority (CCRTA) has hired a new leader. Derrick Majchszak, who currently serves as the CCRTA's Managing Director of Operations, will take over the CEO position on July 1. “I have witnessed firsthand how CCRTA has become a nationally-recognized transit agency, and I look forward...
The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) has announced the newest member of the senior leadership team. Effective today, Christiana Cameron will become APTA’s chief financial officer. “We are excited that Christiana will be joining APTA to lead our finance and information technology departments,” said APTA President...
BOSTON – Governor Maura Healey and Massachusetts Transportation Secretary and CEO Gina Fiandaca today announced the appointment of Patrick J. Lavin to the position of MassDOT Chief Safety Officer. Lavin has 40 years of experience in transportation safety and operations, including as a subject matter expert and technical writer to the MBTA Safety Review...
BOSTON — Governor Maura T. Healey, Lieutenant Governor Kimberley Driscoll and Transportation Secretary Gina Fiandaca today announced that, after a comprehensive search, they will be appointing Phillip Eng as the next General Manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). Eng is an engineer with nearly 40...
AAR CORP. (NYSE: AIR), a leading provider of aviation services to commercial and government operators, MROs, and OEMs, announced today that John W. Dietrich has been elected to AAR’s Board of Directors, effective immediately. Mr. Dietrich is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Atlas Air...
The Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority has started its search for a new CEO following Elizabeth Presutti’s departure earlier this year. Presutti announced in November she would be stepping down as DART’s CEO, and in December DART announced it had hired Sheri Kyras as interim CEO. Presutti...
Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART) has begun a nationwide search to fill its Chief Executive Officer role, with support from Krauthamer & Associates, LLC as the executive recruiting agency leading the search. Located in Iowa’s capital and as the largest public transit agency in...
A bus driver who rose through the ranks of Capital Metro over three decades has now taken the top job at the transit agency. The Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board of Directors voted unanimously Monday to hire Dorothy “Dottie” Watkins as president and CEO. “It is...
