WSP
As WSP’s Senior Vice President and Transit and Rail Director of Enterprise Strategy, Jeffrey Gonneville is supporting strategic development projects and helping to solve complex safety, capital, operational, administrative, and labor challenges for a variety of clients. He is based in Boston.
Gonneville served most recently as Deputy General Manager and interim General Manager at Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). He spent more than 20 years at the transit agency holding leadership roles, including Chief Operating Officer, Chief Mechanical Officer and Director of Vehicle Engineering. He received 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. Gonneville is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and of the Transportation Senior Executive Program at the Eno Center for Transportation in Washington, D.C.
“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.”
Balfour Beatty US
Balfour Beatty US has appointed William Webb as General Manager of its TPG operations, succeeding Kevin Miller. Webb will be responsible for leading the TPG team in providing traction electrification solutions for transit systems, as well as efficient energy system solutions for aviation and mission critical facilities across the U.S.
He has more than 35 years of experience in the power generation and electrical field, including the sale, service, maintenance, and installation of emergency power distribution equipment, fire pumps, and fuel and control systems. Webb served previously as “President of a nationwide commercial and industrial emissions testing business,” reported Balfour Beatty US. “In his role, he managed contracts with manufacturing plants, hospitals, data centers, governmental facilities as well as both residential and commercial buildings.”
Webb is also a U.S. veteran who served in the Navy as an Electrician’s Mate Petty Officer Second Class aboard the USS Thomas C. Hart.
“We are thrilled to welcome Billy to our team of traction power experts serving rail, aviation, and mission critical projects across the nation,” said Mark Konchar, Balfour Beatty US Civils President and Managing Director of Rail Operations. “He is the perfect fit to lead our more than 60 TPG teammates through his extensive experience in providing power generation and electrification services to critical market sectors in our industry. I look forward to witnessing Billy’s leadership and our company’s continued success in meeting our clients’ traction power needs in our various geographies.”
In other news, Caltrain, with partners Pacific Gas & Electric Company and Balfour Beatty US, earlier this year energized and tested the OCS (overhead contact system, or catenary) on the entire 51-mile Caltrain Electrification Project between San Francisco and San Jose, Calif. The project launches Sept. 21.
