BOSTON, MA — WSP, an engineering, environment, and professional services firm, hires Jeffrey Gonneville as 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, Massachusetts.

“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.

Gonneville is an active member of the American Public Transportation Association, previously representing 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.