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Acting GM, New CEO Named
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Shortsleeve, MBTA
 Boston’s Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) has announced that Brian Shortsleeve, currently its chief administrator, will become acting general manager when Frank DePaola, MBTA general manager since February 2015, retires June 30. MBTA Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey Gonneville also will assume additional responsibilities at that time.
Before joining MBTA in 2015 in the then newly established post of chief administrator, Shortsleeve was a managing director at General Catalyst Partners and earlier worked for Bain & Company. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School and is a former Marine officer.
| DePaola was named the first chief operating officer of Massachusetts DOT the month before he took on the top job at MBTA. Earlier he had been MBTA assistant general manager for design and construction, MassDOT highway administrator and acting state secretary of transportation. His efforts as MBTA general manager included designing and implementing an $83 million winter resiliency program.
Fulmer, Urban Engineers
 Urban Engineers Inc., based in Philadelphia, has announced that Kenneth R. Fulmer, vice president and director of transit and passenger rail, will succeed Edward M. D’Alba as president and chief executive officer effective July 1. D’Alba, who headed the firm for 26 years, will remain on its board.
Fulmer, left, joined Urban Engineers as an intern and has served in several leadership capacities, including deputy director of construction services and general manager for transit and passenger rail. Most recently he managed all aspects of the firm’s operations, including serving on the board of directors and leading the executive committee. He has more than 24 years of experience in the design and construction industry and is a certified National Transit Institute instructor.
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