Massport Executive Director Lisa Wieland is stepping down from the quasi-public company she has led for the previous 4 years to take over National Grid’s New England operations.
Wieland has overseen Massport — which runs Logan International Airport, the Conley Terminal, Worcester Regional Airport, Hanscom Field, and the Flynn Cruiseport — by way of turbulent pandemic-era occasions within the journey business when enterprise exercise plunged and financials turned laborious to handle.
“Because of our amazing team, we restored activity across our business lines, delivered strong financial performance, and invested in strategic initiatives to position the authority for future success and contribute to the commonwealth’s economic development, transportation and climate goals,” Wieland stated in a ready assertion.
Massport Aviation Director Ed Freni will take over as interim chief government officer when Wieland departs for National Grid. The Massport board is tasked with discovering and hiring the following CEO.
Wieland first joined Massport in 2006 because the director of company planning and evaluation and took over because the director of human sources technique and employment in 2007. She was promoted to chief administrative officer for maritime in 2013 and in 2015, turned port director for the port of Boston.
She was appointed chief government officer of Massport in 2019 and has pulled in additional than $330,000 a 12 months since taking excessive workers place. Wieland earned $417,609 in 2022, in response to payroll data.
Before Massport, Wieland labored for 4 years on the consulting agency Bain & Company and for 5 years at CNN as an project editor in Los Angeles and Atlanta, in response to her on-line resume.
National Grid CEO John Pettigrew stated Wieland will be part of the corporate in November.
“[Wieland’s] experience working with government and community partners, and in large-scale infrastructure projects will bring real benefit to National Grid as we work to help Massachusetts achieve its net-zero ambitions while delivering the safe and reliable flow of energy to our New England customers and communities,” Pettigrew stated in a press release.
Wieland will succeed Steve Woerner, who plans to steer National Grid’s New England enterprise by way of 2023. Woerner plans to go away the corporate on the finish of the 12 months, in response to a press release.
Wieland earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of California Los Angeles and a Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.
Massport board member John Nucci stated Wieland confirmed extraordinary management in the course of the pandemic, “when a lot of tough decisions had to be made.”
“Everything is an opportunity and we need to start thinking now about a search for a new CEO,” Nucci stated. “One of the things I feel strongly about is that we should be focusing on people who are local, or even internal at Massport. We don’t have time for a learning curve for a new CEO.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”