Thomas “Tom” Prendergast has been named as Chief Executive Officer of the Gateway Development Commission.
Prendergast comes to GDC from AECOM, where he oversees design and consulting services across all business lines in New York and New Jersey, including transportation, water and wastewater, environment, power, and buildings and places.
The former Metropolitan Transportation Authority executive brings significant experience managing large rail infrastructure to the role.
- Prendergast has served as:
- president, chairman, and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA);
- president of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR); and
- CEO of the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority (TransLink).
“Tom Prendergast brings the extraordinary qualifications and expertise necessary to see the nation’s most important infrastructure project through its next stage,” Gov. Phil Murphy said. “I am confident he will serve New Jersey and New York well as Chief Executive Officer of the Gateway Development Commission. I thank Governor Hochul for her collaboration on this selection, and I look forward to advancing the Gateway Project which will enhance connectivity and create jobs while driving transformational economic growth for our region and nation.”
“Over the past year, we have moved from planning the HTP to building the nation’s most urgent rail infrastructure project. We are thrilled that Tom Prendergast will be at the helm of GDC’s operations as we continue to advance the construction projects that are already in progress and move forward with tunnel boring and trackway construction. The region, and the nation, need the Hudson Tunnel Project now more than ever, and Tom’s deep experience delivering complex infrastructure projects in New York and New Jersey, including his decades of work focused on rail mass transit in the region, position him perfectly to lead us through the next phases of this critical project,” Alicia Glen, New York GDC Commissioner and Co-Chair, Balpreet Grewal-Virk, New Jersey GDC Commissioner and Co-Chair, and Tony Coscia, GDC Amtrak Commissioner and Vice Chair, said in a joint statement.
