Leadership Team

The agency's Leadership Team is composed of the Executive Director, Deputy Executive Director, and four division directors. Together, this group advances agency-wide coordination, cross-functional decision-making, organizational strategy, and alignment across people, operations, and programs. The team works together to guide agency priorities, strengthen internal communication, and support a collaborative and well-functioning workplace. This page provides information about the Leadership Team’s work, including past retreat discussions and opportunities for staff connection through leadership office hours.

The Leadership Team includes Executive Director Tegin Teich, Deputy Executive Director Gina Perille, Director of Finance and Operations Hiral Gandhi, Director of Modeling and Analytics Marty Milkovits, Director of Policy and Planning Annette Demchur, and Director of Projects and Partnerships Rebecca Morgan.

Office Hours

All members of the leadership team hold recurring office hours, which are available to all employees to book for quick questions and other types of check-ins. These office hours are viewable on each leadership team member's Google calendar.

Hiral Gandhi, Marty Milkovits, Rebecca Morgan, and Tegin Teich schedule their meetings via Gchat.

Annette Demchur and Gina Perille use booking pages to display available appointment times. Select your preferred time slot from their booking pages.

Retreat Summaries

The leadership team engages in an annual retreat to assess the challenges and successes of the prior year and to look ahead to goals for the coming year. Each year, a summary of the outcomes of the retreat is published on the intranet and shared with all staff. All staff are encouraged to read the summaries, discuss with their supervisors, and utilize leadership team members’ office hours to engage in a conversation about leadership initiatives and priorities.

SFY2025 Leadership Retreat Summary

The leadership team met over two days in July 2025 to refine decision-making structures that connect multi-year plans, strategic initiatives, and agency priorities. The retreat included training on "Organizational Change for Equity" and collaborative planning sessions designed to strengthen alignment across the agency's work. In September 2025, the leadership reconvened in a two-part, facilitated workshop to continue the discussion of multi-year plans and program priorities ahead of sharing a guidance and process proposal with managers and program managers for FFY26.

SFY2024 Leadership Retreat Summary

The leadership team met over two days in September 2024 to discuss the in-progress multi-year work planning effort at the agency and to outline how an overarching agency action plan might serve as a connection point between and among annual work planning via the UPWP, areas of emphasis via themes, strategic planning via the agency’s 5-year strategic plan, and long-term transportation planning via Destination 2050.

Through utilizing a design sprint structure, the leadership team developed the foundation for an action plan to assist in the identification, amplification, and communication of existing conditions, priority projects, budgeting tactics, strategic initiatives, and performance measures.

SFY2023 Leadership Retreat Summary

In August 2023, the leadership team met over two days to discuss successes and barriers in state fiscal year (SFY) 2023, and to set leadership team goals for SFY 2024. A portion of the retreat also featured guest speakers from the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (AMPO) who reviewed national policy and funding issues with the leadership team.

The leadership retreat covered three primary topics: aligning agency-wide work and program planning, identifying organizational structure improvements, and launching year three of strategic plan implementation. In the discussion about aligning work and program planning, the leadership team made a collective commitment to support and make more intentional the connections between the goals in the region’s long-range transportation plan and the annual and multi-year programmatic work the agency engages in. These connections are being developed and enhanced through the evolving use of thematic emphasis areas – currently safety, equity, resilience, and uncertainty. With respect to the organizational structure, the leadership team completed exercises to sort and organize the many activities that take place across agency teams, departments, and divisions with an eye on moving out of this year’s interim reporting arrangements.

Members of the leadership team also reviewed the strategic plan dashboard and affirmed individual responsibilities, acknowledging that many of the strategic plan activities in year three of implementation represent continuing efforts. The team discussed strategies for increasing the number of staff members involved in the plan’s implementation and acknowledged how the strategic plan is both a document and process, evolving through two years of implementation efforts.

SFY2023 Leadership Commitment Report-out

SFY2022 Leadership Retreat Summary

The SFY2022 retreat included the identification of SFY23 leadership commitments, which are:

  1. Implement new strategies and practices for collaborative quarterly resource and work planning (leader: Annette Demchur)
  2. Extend project workflows to include promotion, debriefs, archiving, and follow-up (leader: Marty Milkovits)
  3. Explore technological and physical infrastructure as supports for communication, collaboration, and culture (leader: Hiral Gandhi)
  4. Identify opportunities to increase creativity, innovation, and risk tolerance (leader: Rebecca Morgan)
  5. Establish path for internally-facing diversity, equity, and inclusion committee (leader: Tegin Teich)
  6. Implement year two of the agency's strategic plan (leader: Gina Perille)

SFY2021 Leadership Retreat Summary