MassDOT Board of Directors

 

A five-member Board of Directors appointed by the Governor with expertise in transportation, finance and engineering oversees the new organization, while serving as the governing body of both MassDOT and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), which will be part of MassDOT but will retain a separate legal existence.

John R. Jenkins, Board Chair 

Andrew Whittle 

Elizabeth Levin 

Ferdinand Alvaro

Janice Loux

John R. Jenkins, Board Chair

A Natick resident, will serve as Chair of the MassDOT Board and was a former Massachusetts Turnpike Authority Board member. He is President of West Insurance Agency, Inc.

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Professor Andrew Whittle

A geotechnical engineer, currently serves as Department Head of the Massachusetts Institute for Technology′s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Whittle is a resident of Boxborough.

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Elizabeth Levin

A resident of Boston, is President of Liz Levin & Company, a management consulting company that serves the transportation, design and environment community.

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Ferdinand Alvaro

Ferdinand Alvaro is Partner-in-Charge of the Adorno & Yoss LLP Boston office and Co-Chair of the National Business Law Group. He previously served on the board of directors of the MBTA. Alvaro is a resident of Marblehead.

Mr. Alvaro has devoted most of his career to counseling businesses and to the execution of complex business and real estate transactions, both as an attorney and a businessman. Before joining Adorno & Yoss LLP, he was Vice President, Commercial and General Counsel of BOC Process Systems, $2 billion global division of the BOC Group. In that capacity, he led a legal, financial, and technical team that closed financing transactions, acquisitions, venture capital investments, strategic alliances, and joint ventures in the U.S., Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific Rim.

From 1997 to 1999, contemporaneously with his duties at BOC, Mr. Alvaro served as Chief Executive Officer of the Cantarell Nitrogen Company (“CNC”), a consortium of U.S., U.K., Mexican, German and Japanese companies organized to develop a $1 billion infrastructure project in Mexico. During his tenure with CNC, he opened, staffed and managed its first offices in Mexico and addressed a variety of regulatory, political and local community issues, the resolution of which permitted the successful launch of the project. He also led a multi-sponsor CNC team that completed one of the very few successful limited recourse financing transactions closed with respect to Latin American projects that year. Over the course of his career, Mr. Alvaro has served on the boards of directors of United States, Chilean, Columbian, Mexican and Venezuelan companies.

EXPERIENCE

• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Commercial Real Estate
• Venture Capital and Corporate Finance
• International Transactions

EDUCATION

• J.D., Harvard Law School (1980)
• B.B.A., Accounting and Finance, Pace University (1977)

INVOLVEMENT

• Named as a Massachusetts “Super Lawyer” in Boston Magazine (2006 and 2007)
• Member, Judicial Nominating Commission (appointed by Governor Romney in 2005; reappointed by Governor Patrick in 2006; served until 2007)
• Member, Corporate Executive Council of WGBH (public television)
• Member, Governing Council, Boston Bar Association (2003-2006)
• Member, Boston, American and Hispanic National Bar Associations
• Trustee, Boston Bar Foundation
• Director, Initiative for a New Economy (economic program initiated by Mayor Menino)

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Janice Loux

 

Janice Loux, a resident of Williamstown, is the first female president of UNITE HERE! Local 26, representing more than 6,300 hotel and food service workers in metropolitan Boston and was a member of the board of directors of the MBTA for 12 years under five governors.

An activist and organizer from an early age, Ms. Janice Loux was elected as President of UNITE HERE! Local 26 in April 1997, serving as the first female President in the union′s 111-year history and representing more than 6,300 hotel and food service workers in metropolitan Boston.  Prior to her presidency, she served as Vice President and Benefits Officer of Local 26.  She is currently the Treasurer of the Greater Boston Hotel Employees Local 26 Trust Funds.

Ms. Loux developed the Local 26 benefits package, which is one of the most progressive in the country.  Ms. Loux directed the union′s successful 18-month lobbying effort to amend the Taft-Hartley federal labor law.  The amendment was signed into law on April 18, 1990, allowing unions to bargain for housing benefits.

In 2001, Ms. Loux was elected to the Executive Board of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union as Vice President.

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