MV Transportation Inc. has named Carter Pate as chief executive officer, effective Aug. 15. Pate also will be chief executive officer of all MV subsidiaries and will become a member of the company’s board of directors.

Pate has more than 33 years of consulting, management, and executive leadership experience. He comes to MV from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he is the global and U.S. managing partner for the Capital Projects and Infrastructure practice and co-leader of the Global Government practice. He joined the firm as a direct admit partner in 1996.

From 1987 to 1996, Pate was the founding partner of Pate, Winters & Stone Inc., providing management and consulting services in the areas of restructuring management and corporate turnarounds.

Pate also is the author of The Phoenix Effect: Nine Revitalizing Strategies No Company Can Do Without, which is used in business school courses and has been translated into five languages.

“Mr. Pate has the vision, experience, and leadership ability to take MV to the next level; to help our clients through difficult funding challenges; and to ensure MV remains the best provider of passenger transportation in the world,” said Jon Monson, MV’s chairman of the board, who served as chief executive from 1999 to 2008.