Continuing to move swiftly with the organizational restructure of the Jacksonville Transportation Authority, CEO Nathaniel P. Ford, Sr. today announced the hiring of three additional members of the public transit agency’s executive leadership team.
Alice Tolbert Cannon is joining JTA as vice president of external affairs. She will be responsible for managing the agency’s business development, sales and customer relations units, as well as JTA’s marketing, government relations and public/media relations efforts. A former executive of external affairs for both Morehouse School of Medicine and MARTA in Atlanta, Cannon has spent the past seven years as senior manager of Parsons Brinckerhoff’s Atlanta office.
Henry Li has been hired as JTA’s vice president of fnance and administration/CFO. Li, who currently serves as chief financial and administrative officer at Hampton Roads Transit in Hampton, Va., will oversee budgeting, accounting, real estate, grants management, human resources, procurement and inventory control at JTA.
Michael J. Sloan has been named vice president of compliance and risk management. He is responsible for the planning, managing and implementation of safety and security of JTA’s transit operations and enterprise risk management. In addition, Sloan will ensure that JTA meets the requirements for civil rights and DBE guidelines and manages the agency’s ethics programs and internal audit functions.
Cannon, Li and Sloan will report directly to the CEO. All three officially begin working at JTA next month.
“I couldn’t be more pleased that Alice, Henry and Mike have agreed to join our executive team,” Ford said. “With these three seasoned professionals on board, we are truly building one of the best public transit management teams in the country as we move forward with our agency-wide transformation initiatives.”
JTA yesterday announced the appointments of William Moseley as chief of staff and Brad Thoburn as vice president of long range planning, capital programs and system development.
The last member of the new executive team will be vice president of transit operations, which is expected to be filled in the near future.
