BOSTON — WSP, a leading engineering, environment and professional services firm, hired Jeffrey Gonneville senior vice president and Transit and Rail director of enterprise strategy.
Gonneville supports strategic development projects for WSP and contributes his expertise to solve complex safety, capital, operational, administrative and labor challenges for a variety of clients. He is based in Boston.
“Jeff provides experienced organizational leadership, building upon his achievements navigating a major transit authority through multiple periods of transition,” said Rex Brejnik, senior vice president and interim national transit and rail business line lead at WSP. “As historic infrastructure investment presents generational growth opportunities across the nation’s transit and rail industry, Jeff will continue showing our clients and teams the way forward.”
Gonneville’s most recent role was deputy general manager and interim general manager for the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA). He served the MBTA for more than 20 years in critical leadership roles, including chief operating officer, chief mechanical officer and director of vehicle engineering.
In these roles, Gonneville was responsible for working with senior leaders to develop policy solutions to complex problems and with front line staff to implement solutions on the ground. He received notable recognition for his accomplishments, including the 2023 ENO Center for Transportation Leadership Distinguished Alumni Award.
Gonneville is an active member of the American Public Transportation Association, previously representing the MBTA as a Board member and participant in the recent Bus Manufacturing Task Force. He has also contributed as a panel member for the Transportation Research Board’s Transit Cooperative Research Program.
He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and the Transportation Senior Executive Program at the Eno Center for Transportation in Washington, D.C.
From securing funding to design to project delivery and operations, transit and rail operators nationwide collaborate with WSP to achieve their objectives and serve their communities. Some examples of WSP transit and rail projects include engineering support and design services for the Gateway project under the Hudson River in New York, project delivery services for CapMetro’s automated bus yard in Austin and design services for IndyGO’s bus rapid transit lines and stations in Indianapolis.
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