The Hillsborough Transit Authority (HART) Board of Directors have appointed Scott Drainville as the authority's new CEO. Drainville has been serving as HART’s interim CEO since April 2023.
HART hired Drainville in 2018 as deputy chief of maintenance, overseeing the authority's core business in maintenance, facilities, inventory control and the communications/electronics divisions and responsible for directing the overall funding, environmental, design, permitting, construction and project close-out of capital construction projects. He would go on to serve as chief of maintenance and transportation.
“Scott Drainville is a partner with our board in bringing more transparency to HART,” said HART Chair Councilman Luis Viera. "I and our Board of Republicans and Democrats enthusiastically gave Mr. Drainville a unanimous approval for a reason - because he is the right person with the right values and for the right time for HART.”
"I appreciate the confidence the board has placed in my ability to lead HART," Drainville said. "My focus is on bringing stability to the organization and continuing to maximize our resources to deliver the best possible transportation service for Hillsborough County."
Before coming to HART, Drainville served as the director of transportation and maintenance for CitiBus in Lubbock, Texas. He has also held transit leadership positions at the D.C. Circulator in Washington, D.C., and served as a mechanical foreman with the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority for more than 18 years.
Drainville attended Bryant University’s Executive Development Center for Business Management. He holds certifications from the National Transit Institute in Senior Maintenance Leadership, Procurement and Contract Administration, as well as multiple certifications in heavy-duty maintenance and repair. He started his career as a diesel technician in the late 1980s and has more than 30 years of public transportation and fleet maintenance experience.
