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Darrell Johnson is the Chief Executive Officer of the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA), serving in this position since March 2013.

OCTA is responsible for planning, financing, and coordinating Orange County's freeway, street, and rail development, as well as managing bus services, commuter-rail services, and paratransit service. OCTA has 1,500 employees, a $1.1 billion annual budget, and is governed by a 17-voting member board of directors.

In collaboration with OCTA’s Board of Directors, Johnson is responsible for providing overall leadership of the agency by formulating and achieving public transportation objectives. He develops and implements short-range and long-range goals and business plans to support the successful implementation of OCTA’s strategic vision.

Johnson represents OCTA on local, state and national issues related to transportation programs and policies. In 2012, he was elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the American Public Transportation Association. He recently completed the Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Johnson’s career in transportation spans nearly 22 years, the last 10 of which have been at OCTA. Johnson has held positions in Planning, Programming, Project Development and Capital Program Delivery, and served as Executive Director of Rail Programs. Prior to being appointed to the position of CEO, Johnson had served as Deputy CEO since March 2010.

William Mao is a Chief Information Officer at Orange County Transportation Authority.

Andy Oftelie is the Chief Financial Officer for the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA), serving in this position since June 2013.

OCTA is responsible for planning, financing, and coordinating Orange County's freeway, street, and rail development, as well as managing bus services, commuter-rail services, and paratransit service. OCTA has 1,500 employees, a $1.4 billion annual budget, and is governed by a 17-voting member board of directors.

Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer, Oftelie oversees a staff of 165 employees and directs and manages all financial and administrative functions for the organization including public finance, investor relations, treasury, financial planning, budgeting, accounting, financial reporting, revenue and grants administration, information technology, contracts administration and general administration. Oftelie also serves as the Board-appointed Treasurer of the organization.

Oftelie’s career at OCTA started as an entry-level Financial Analyst in 1999. In his tenure at OCTA, Oftelie has been given increasing levels of responsibility and advanced to the position of Chief Financial Officer in 2013. Immediately prior to being promoted to the position of CFO, Oftelie served as the Director of Finance and Administration since 2010.

Oftelie earned a Master’s of Science degree in Public Administration from California State University, Long Beach and Bachelor’s of Science degree in Finance from the University of Southern California. He is also a graduate of the Executive Development Program offered by the Eno Center for Transit Leadership and was named OCTA Administrative Employee of the Year in 2009.

Jack Barton is a Chief Operating Officer at Orange County Transportation Authority, Chairman at MembersOnly HQ - empowering recruitment leaders, and Co-Founder at ContractArm Ltd and is based in London, United Kingdom. He has worked as Chief Operations Officer at Oyster Partnership, Senior Consultant at Beresford Blake Thomas Ltd, and Co-Founder at The Ocean Partnership. Jack studied at University of Manchester between 1994 and 1998.