People on the Move: May Mobility; RailPros; Mike Albert; The Routing Company; HDR; Transdev

Kathy Winter has been appointed chief operating officer of May Mobility, where she will be focused on accelerating execution across the company, as well as developing key strategies and partnerships to help May scale on a global basis. Winter brings nearly 30 years of engineering and automotive experience leading companies to significant revenue growth and product development worldwide, including more than ten years exclusively working on advancements in the autonomous driving sector.

Winter joins May Mobility from Intel Corporation where she served as vice president and general manager of its Autonomous Transportation & Infrastructure Division. She was responsible for establishing their Autonomous Vehicle Labs, global product strategy, roadmaps and research and development for Intel’s Advanced Driver Assist Systems (ADAS) Infotainment and Automated Driving businesses. She also led the company’s integration with Mobileye post-acquisition.

“I am delighted to join May Mobility and believe May’s groundbreaking autonomous vehicle technology is poised to enable the cities of the future,”Winter said. “I look forward to working with everyone at May Mobility and helping to continue advancing the company’s mission and to help make transportation more accessible for everyone.”

RailPros promoted Joe North to senior vice president, passenger and transit rail partnerships. In his new role, North will oversee client development services for passenger and transit rail relationships for the company, which provides services to railroads of all sizes across North America. North, who has more than 40 years of transit experience, joined RailPros in 2018 as the vice president for the northeast market. He has held senior-level roles in commuter and light rail operations and has also served in strategy and engineering consulting firms in the U.S. and Canada.

RailPros has hired retired New Jersey Transit (NJ Transit) executive Lenora Isaac as director of rail and transit projects. Isaac will be based out of its Newark, NJ, office and will oversee development and implementation of new rail/transit projects in the New York/New Jersey/Pennsylvania metropolitan region.

Isaac recently retired from NJ Transit following a 35-year career at the agency, which included roles in fleet and support equipment, capital planning and programs, rail system development and, most recently, in its resilience program. She brings specific expertise with Northeast Corridor projects, having successfully managed and delivered major rehabilitation and reconstruction projects at Metropark Station, Rahway Station, the Trenton Transit Center and Newark Penn Station. As the senior director of NJ Transit’s resilience program, Isaac was responsible for the delivery of a program of projects worth more than $3 billion, including the Raritan River Bridge Replacement, the Long Slip Fill and Rail Enhancement project, the Delco Lead S&I Facility, new substations and multiple other infrastructure and facility projects.

Mike Albert has named Marty Kuhn as the company's new president, where he will develop and implement the company's corporate vision and provide strategic leadership across Mike Albert's fleet, rental, sales and service business units. He will also be responsible for continuing to grow the company in a sustainable manner while maintaining Mike Albert's standards. Kuhn brings expertise in developing financial growth strategies that leverage technology and people. Most recently, he served as the president of TEMPOE & SmartPay in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he led a strategic shift toward e-commerce, digital marketing and technological advancements to drive growth during the pandemic.

The Routing Company named Noelle Claybrook and Dietter Aragon as business development managers. Claybrook and Aragon will lead business development under Dick Alexander.

Before joining TRC, Claybrook was a business development leader at TransLoc. During the past five years, she directly oversaw deployment of dozens of microtransit pilots, led a team of business development representatives and presented to hundreds of transit agencies on the benefits and best use-cases for agency owned microtransit services. Claybrook’s sales and leadership experience will catalyze TRC’s business development in partnering with cities and transit agencies around the world.

Aragon brings more than 20 years of experience to his role and will offer extensive insight for transit agencies looking to increase efficiency in service and operations. He began his transit career in 2001 as a coach operator and has advanced through several leadership roles in quality assurance, transit planning and operations, spanning three of California’s leading transit agencies.

His industry knowledge spans fixed-route operations, service development, project management and the development of agency-wide key performance indicators for both the public and private sectors. He is also an active supporter of and volunteer with Latinos In Transit.

Paul Wiedefeld has joined HDR as director of the firm’s transportation practice in the Northeast U.S. Wiedefeld will be based in Baltimore, Md., and brings four decades of transportation industry experience, with half of those years as the CEO of major aviation and transit agencies. As HDR’s northeast transportation director, he will provide leadership across 14 states from Virginia to Maine, plus the District of Columbia.

He will help set HDR’s transportation strategy in the region and expand the firm’s diverse service lines throughout the northeast. His responsibilities will also include overseeing the planning and delivery of major regional initiatives and projects for HDR’s transit, aviation, highways, bridges, freight rail and maritime clients.

Transdev recently hired Christopher Haltek as director of procurement. Haltek is an accomplished leader with more than 20 years of experience specifically in supply chain, procurement, purchasing, product management and merchandising. He also has a background in recruiting, hiring, training and coaching employees.

Most recently, Haltek was the director of IT procurement for Deft, an IT infrastructure company. Prior to that, he worked for Anixter (then Wesco International - post its merger) – a global electrical, communications, utility distribution and supply chain solutions company. While there, he held several positions with increasing levels of responsibility, including purchasing manager, director of procurement and supply chain and vice president of merchandising.