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Laketran’s Jurkowski to Retire
LAKE COUNTY, OHIO—Raymond Jurkowski, general manager of Laketran since 2003, will retire July 31.
Jurkowski came to Laketran after serving Philadelphia’s Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority as assistant general manager of organizational development. Earlier he worked with St. Louis Metro and was deputy commissioner of transportation in Westchester County, NY. |
LOS ANGELES—AECOM has announced the hiring of Carolyn Flowers, former acting FTA administrator, to lead the firm’s North American public transit practice.Before joining FTA, Flowers was chief executive officer of the Charlotte Area Transit System and worked 19 years for Los Angeles Metro, ultimately serving as chief operations officer. She is a graduate of the Leadership APTA Class of 2003, a co-chair of the APTA Authorization Task Force and a former member of the board of directors and numerous committees.
DAYTON, OH—Nikol Miller has joined the Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority as community relations manager. Miller started her career in community and government affairs working for the city of Dayton. In Chicago, she worked for the Metropolitan Planning Council, U.S. Census Bureau and as chief of staff to a city alderman.
LOS ANGELES—HNTB Corporation announced the appointment of Enrique (Hank) Alonso as construction management program manager and vice president, based in the firm’s Orange County office. Alonso has more than 33 years of
experience, serving most recently as vice president for construction management for another consulting firm.
PORTLAND, OR—Patrick Preusser has joined the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon as executive director of transportation, overseeing bus, light rail, commuter rail and paratransit operations.
Preusser has 19 years of experience, including serving as operations manager for the Saudi Railway Company in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Earlier he was executive director of rail operations for Los Angeles Metro and worked for Amtrak and FRA.
TAMPA, FL—Hillsborough County Commissioner Patricia (Pat) Kemp and City of Temple Terrace Councilperson Cheri Donohue have joined the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority Board of Directors.
SNOHOMISH COUNTY, WA—Community Transit has hired Molly Marsicek to head its new Customer Experience Department. She joins the agency after serving as senior manager of customer experience at a healthcare company.
SAN ANTONIO, TX—The VIA Metropolitan Transit Board of Trustees has re-elected Hope Andrade as its chair, Stephen P. Allison vice chair and Lester Bryant secretary.
Andrade was first elected to chair the board in 2015. Allison joined the board in 2009, appointed by the Greater Bexar County Council of Cities, and was originally elected vice chair in 2015. Bryant, appointed to the board by the city of San Antonio in 2014, also serves on the APTA Board of Directors and on several APTA committees.
PHOENIX—Paul Hodgins has been named chief financial officer of Valley Metro after serving as interim CFO. He has worked in the industry for 25 years and will be responsible for the operating and capital budgets of the two boards of directors, Valley Metro RPTA and Valley Metro Rail.
OAKLAND, CA—The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) Board of Directors elected Rebecca Saltzman its president and Robert Raburn vice president, succeeding Tom Radulovich and Gail Murray respectively.
Saltzman has represented BART’s District 3 since 2012 and Raburn has represented District 4 since 2010.
DES PLAINES, IL—Motor Coach Industries (MCI), a subsidiary of New Flyer Industries Inc., announced the promotions of Ian Smart, executive vice president, aftermarket of New Flyer, to president, motor coach business, of MCI, and Brian Dewsnup, vice president and general manager of MCI’s aftermarket business, to president, parts business, for both New Flyer and MCI.
Smart joined New Flyer in 2011 from an independent aviation repair and overhaul company.
Dewsnup, based in Louisville, KY, will oversee the combined New Flyer and MCI aftermarket parts businesses. He formerly was chief financial officer of North American Bus Industries, which was acquired by New Flyer in 2013.
ASHEVILLE, NC—Jeff Popovich, most recently director, information technology, for APTA, has joined KL2 Connects LLC as its fifth principal.
Popovich has more than 20 years of consulting and information technology experience. He is a graduate of the Leadership APTA Class of 2012 and a member of the Information Technology and Research and Technology committees.
PETALUMA, CA—The Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) Board of Directors named Debora Fudge, mayor of the town of Windsor, its chairwoman, succeeding Judy Arnold. The board also selected Kate Sears, a Marin County supervisor, as vice chairwoman.
LITTLE FALLS, NJ—Stanley Rosenblum has joined SYSTRA as chief operating officer after 14 years with Jacobs Engineering. He previously worked for New Jersey Transit Corporation and New Jersey DOT.
NEW YORK CITY—Babu Veeregowda has joined HNTB Corporation’s Northeast Division as chief transportation/traffic engineer and vice president. He has more than 28 years of experience, serving most recently as a principal and chief traffic engineer with another engineering consulting firm.
SAN DIEGO—Dirk Van de Meerssche, Cubic Transportation Systems sales and marketing director of intelligent transport systems and tolling for Asia Pacific, has been appointed to the board of directors for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Australia.
DALLAS—The Dallas City Council has appointed Patrick Kennedy to the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Board of Directors. Kennedy, founder of an urban planning, landscape architecture and consulting firm, has more than 15 years of experience.
LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Metro Board of Directors welcomed three new members and noted the re-election of a current member.
Two members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Kathryn Barger and Janice Hahn, succeeded Michael D. Antonovich and Don Knabe as members of the Metro board, and Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia succeeded Diane DuBois. Ara Najarian, a Glendale City Council member, was re-elected to the board, on which he has served since 2006.
SACRAMENTO, CA—Blair Thompson has joined Caltrans in the newly created position of chief of innovation, risk and strategic management. He previously worked for the California Department of Motor Vehicles since 1998, most recently as acting enterprise planning and performance branch chief.
KANSAS CITY, MO—TranSystems Corp. has named Tim Rock and David Maas to its freight rail and intermodal sector, Rock as market sector leader and Maas senior vice president. Both are principals with the company.
Rock, a senior vice president, also serves as regional vice president for the company’s Southeast Region. His previous positions with TranSystems include rail team leader, director of operations and regional vice president for the Midwest Region.
Maas joined TranSystems in 2006.
LOWELL, MA—TRC Companies Inc.announced that Doug Massih, senior vice president, has been appointed the new leader for the firm’s infrastructure sector. He was previously the sector’s deputy director and senior vice president and has more than 30 years of technical services and business-related experience.
DALLAS—Texas Central, developers of the state’s high-speed train that ultimately will connect Dallas and Houston, announced that business leader Drayton McLane Jr. has joined its board of directors. He succeeds former Ambassador to Japan and Australia Tom Schieffer.
LEWISVILLE, TX—Eric Jensen has joined the Denton County Transportation Authority (DCTA) Board of Directors, representing small cities. He is president of Control Products Corporation, designer and manufacturer of lighting systems and simulators for air, land and sea.
DCTA also announced the reappointments of three board members: Connie White and Skip Kalb, also representing small cities seats, and Carter Wilson, representing the city of Frisco.
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