Justin Millikan
BUFFALO GROVE, IL—Vapor Bus International-A Wabtec Company announced the appointment of Justin Millikan as area sales manager-west region.

Prior to joining Vapor, Millikan was regional sales manager for Luminator.

Eddie Vance
TAMPA, FL—Newly elected Temple Terrace City Councilman Eddie Vance has been named to the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART) Board of Directors. He succeeds former Temple Terrace Councilman Ron Govin, who served on the HART board since 2005.

Vance is regional vice president of Suncoast Schools Federal Credit Union.

Frederick L. Daniels Jr., Barbara Babbit Kaufman, Juanita Jones Abernathy, Harold Buckley Sr.
ATLANTA, GA—The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority Board of Directors has re-elected its entire slate of officers to serve another term in 2013.

Frederick L. Daniels Jr.,  representing DeKalb County, remains as board chair; Barbara Babbit Kaufman, Fulton County, vice chair; Juanita Jones Abernathy, Atlanta, secretary; and Harold Buckley Sr., DeKalb, treasurer.

Jeff Ferreri
FARIBAULT, MN—ABC Companies announced the appointment of Jeff Ferreri to parts territory manager for the area surrounding the Hudson Service facility in Jersey City, NJ.

Ferreri has more than 20 years of experience in the coach industry. He began his career with Laidlaw Transit in Chicago as operations manager for the school bus division, moving up to district operations manager in Georgia and Florida. More recently, he served Coach USA as director of charter sales and operations for the northeast region.
 
Timothy Thorn, Shawn Donaghy
CINCINNATI, OH—Metro has promoted Timothy (TJ) Thorn to director of transit operations and Shawn Donaghy to assistant director of transit operations.

Thorn joined Metro as system safety director in February 2012. He has more than 25 years of experience in environmental health and safety within the manufacturing and transportation industries. Thorn also worked for more than three years at the Lexington Transit Authority in Lexington, KY, in positions including assistant general manager and director of risk management and special projects.

Donaghy came to the agency in September 2010. He previously worked as senior operations manager at CEVA Logistics and area supervisor at DHL Worldwide.

Richard George, David Rollin
PHILADELPHIA, PA—Interfleet Technology has announced the appointment of Richard George as managing director, effective the end of February. He will succeed David Rollin, who is retiring after almost 20 years in this post.

George comes to Interfleet after serving as director of transport for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, where he was responsible for the delivery of transport logistics.

Rollin joined the firm in 1994; the management buy-out of the company from the former British Rail organization was completed in 1996. Last year, SNC-Lavalin acquired Interfleet.

David Vozzolo, Steve Carroll, Lucas Olson, James Hecht
ORLANDO, FL—HDR Engineering has named David Vozzolo director of its streetcar practice. He previously held this position on an interim basis while Charlie Hales campaigned successfully for the mayoral seat in Portland, OR. As mayor-elect, Hales has resigned from HDR.

Vozzolo has more than 33 years of experience in public transit management. He joined HDR in 2006 after serving as FTA deputy associate administrator for the Office of Planning and Environment. He is vice chair of the APTA Policy and Planning Committee.

Assisting Vozzolo will be three regional directors: Steve Carroll, eastern region; Lucas Olson, P.E., central region; and James Hecht, P.E., western region.

Brandi M. Stewart
CINCINNATI, OH—Brandi M. Stewart, an attorney in the litigation department of Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, has joined the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority Board of Trustees.

Stewart currently serves on the Ohio State Bar Association Board of Governors. She was named a 2012 Ohio Rising Star by Ohio Super Lawyers and a 2008 YWCA Rising Star. She has previously served on Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory’s Young Professional Kitchen Cabinet, where she chaired the Parents and Young Families Committee, and was a participant in the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber’s C-Change Program, Class IV.

Tom Radulovich, Joel Keller, Rebecca Saltzman, Zakhary Mallett
OAKLAND, CA—The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) Board of Directors elected Tom Radulovich as its president and Joel Keller as vice president.

The BART board also welcomed two newly elected members: Rebecca Saltzman, representing District 3, and Zakhary Mallett, District 7. Saltzman is a public transit and policy advocate who also works as a government affairs manager for a statewide environmental organization. Mallett is a city/transportation planner by profession and a transit advocate for more than 10 years.

Nugent Laing, Graham Stroud
TAMPA, FL—Atkins announced the hiring of Nugent Laing, MBA, MIEEE, and Graham Stroud, CEng.

Laing will serve Atkins’ North American transit and rail practice in Coraopolis, PA, as program director for rail signaling. He has 21 years of rail signaling experience, most recently as an independent consultant. Laing has worked on signaling technologies—including European Rail Traffic Management System Level 2 and Communications-Based Train Control—with which he designed and commissioned multiple systems on three continents.

Stroud, who is transferring to the U.S. after 15 years with Atkins in England, will serve as project director of asset management services, working out of the company’s Edison, NJ, office. He previously led infrastructure asset management for Atkins’ rail business in the United Kingdom and is one of the founding members of SAMNet (Strategic Asset Management Network), Atkins’ global resource network for asset management professionals.

Marion Ashley, Jeff Comerchero, Andrew Kotyuk
RIVERSIDE, CA—The Riverside Transit Agency (RTA) Board of Directors elected Riverside County Supervisor Marion Ashley as its chairman. He succeeds former Murrieta City Councilman Doug McAllister.

Ashley has served on the RTA board since 2003.

Board members also named Temecula City Councilman Jeff Comerchero as first vice chairman and San Jacinto Councilman Andrew Kotyuk as second vice chairman.

Elaine Scruggs

Valley Metro CEO Steve Banta and Glendale Mayor Elaine Scruggs
PHOENIX, AZ—Valley Metro commemorated its longest-serving board member, Glendale Mayor Elaine Scruggs, by naming an annual public transit internship program in her honor. Scruggs recently stepped down after 19 years on the board, which she chaired in 2008.

The Valley Metro Mayor Elaine Scruggs Internship is open to college students pursuing a degree in planning, engineering or a related field with a commitment to serving in the public transportation industry.

Scruggs led the way in supporting dedicated funding sources to help ensure the expansion of transit in Maricopa County, AZ. She also was instrumental in crafting the Regional Transportation Plan, approved by voters in 2004 in support of providing a regional funding source to enhance valley-wide public transit services.

Tim McCormick, Jeanne Campos, Linda Gamberg, Bridget Cade
SANTA MONICA, CA—The City of Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus (BBB) announced the hiring of Tim McCormick as transit planning administrator and Jeanne Campos as transit community relations coordinator, and the promotion of Linda Gamberg to transit community relations officer and Bridget Cade to administrative services officer.

McCormick previously was director of service planning with the North County Transit District in Oceanside, CA. Before that, he was manager of the planning division of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority for 12 years.

Campos most recently served as a marketing specialist with the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) in Orange, CA. She has worked on strategic marketing and public outreach campaigns for public transit programs and multi-platform communications tools for both OCTA and Los Angeles Metro.

Gamberg, a five-year BBB employee, formerly was the agency’s marketing and public information coordinator. She has more than 18 years of experience in marketing and community relations, including three years as marketing director for the Los Angeles Conservation Corps.

Cade previously served as a senior human resources analyst with the city’s Human Resources Department. Her prior experience includes 16 years in the human resources field and three years in the Personnel Department for the city of Manhattan Beach, CA.

Wib Gulley
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC—Wib Gulley has announced that he will retire this summer as general counsel of the Triangle Transit Authority (TTA). He has served in this position since 2004.

Before becoming TTA’s chief counsel, Gulley was a founding member of the authority’s board of directors.