Metro makes some personnel changes
Metro's been busy at the tail-end of 2006 with some high-profile personnel moves. Here's the first announcement:
METRO Board of Directors member Louise Richman, will join METRO’s staff January 3, 2007 as its new Vice President/Chief Financial Officer.
METRO President and CEO Frank Wilson made the announcement of her hiring and resignation from the Board at today’s Board meeting.
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She will replace METRO Vice President Francis Britton, who has worked at METRO for 20 years. Britton will stay on at METRO to assist Richman’s transition into her new job, Wilson said.
A Director of Finance for the City of Bellaire since 2002, Richman is a Certified Public Accountant with more than 20 years of accounting, administrative, financial and tax experience, including senior management and policy making functions for municipal governments, not-for-profit organizations and private industry.
And here's the second announcement:
METRO’s search of candidates for three senior management positions culminated with the selection of Ms. Helen Cavazos as Vice President of Human Resources & Diversity, Mr. Arthur C. Smiley III as Vice President of Audit, and Ms. Deborah Richard as Vice President of Administrative Services.
Ms. Cavazos brings over 22 years of professional experience in all facets of Human Resources management, diversity and leadership development training. She has held senior managerial positions with the McDonald’s Corporation, the Stanford Financial Group, and Clear Channel Communications. Ms. Cavazos was the founder and owner of a management consulting company, whose major clients included McDonald’s Corporation, Shell Oil, BP, General Motors, Aero México Airlines, Baker Communications, and Houston Community College.
Mr. Smiley joined the METRO Audit Department in 1984 as an expert in financial and investment analysis with an emphasis on regulatory compliance and quality-assurance programs, as well as investment of working capital funds and pension-fund investment activities. Smiley also boasts a strong expertise in ridership statistics and estimation techniques. He is a certified public accountant, internal auditor and fraud examiner, and holds a master's degree in business administration from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree in economics from Stanford University.
Ms. Richard now heads the new Department of Administrative Services, which manages METRO’s Print Shop, Mail Room, the METRO Solutions 2 Compliance function, Strategic Recruiting, and Business Assistance. She joined METRO in 2002 as a senior staff attorney specializing in labor and employment law. Prior to joining Metro in 2002, she has worked as in-house employment counsel with private employers such as Sears and Marshall Field & Co. In 2005, she was promoted to the position of Senior Director – Compliance for the METRO Solutions 2 project.
Two thoughts: Mr. Smiley's "strong expertise" in ridership stats and estimation techniques is amusing, considering Metro's history of counting boardings, which leads to inflated ridership reporting; and notice how Metro has casually changed Metro Solutions to Metro Solutions 2. Just like that! No need to ask voters if they approve of Metro Solutions 2, as opposed to the original Metro Solutions that was voted on in 2003.
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 12/26/06 08:49 AM | Houston Transit | Technorati | Sphere | Comments (11)
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