Source: State House News Service
Jack McCarthy is retiring from the position of executive director of the Massachusetts School Building Authority after having overseen the opening of more than 300 new or renovated public school facilities in the last 11 years.
A former top aide to Inspector General Greg Sullivan and Secretary of State William Galvin, McCarthy was picked by Treasurer Steven Grossman to serve as the MSBA's second executive director in January 2012 (he started the job on an interim basis in late 2011).
Katherine Craven, the current Board of Elementary and Secondary Education chair, was the agency's founding executive director.
"I want to thank Jack for his countless contributions to the Massachusetts School Building Authority and our state over the last 32 years," Treasurer Deborah Goldberg said. "The MSBA would not be the success it is today if it were not for the hard work and dedication of people like him. He surely will be missed."
Goldberg said Wednesday that she has chosen Mary Pichetti to assume the executive director's role at the MSBA. Pichetti has worked at the MSBA since 2007; first as director of construction and since 2008 as the agency's director of capital planning.
According to her bio on the MSBA website, Pichetti has led teams that secured "approval of over 119 Core Program projects totaling over $2.7 billion in grants as well as the launch of an expedited Green Repair Program for an additional 171 roof, window and boiler projects totaling over $224 million in grants." She previously worked as a construction coordinator and change order and claims analyst on the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority's $3.6 billion Boston Harbor cleanup project.
"Mary has contributed greatly to hundreds of school projects throughout the state for the past 16 years," Goldberg said. "I am confident that with her background, experience, and acute knowledge of the MSBA that she will excel in this new position." - Colin A. Young/SHNS | 6/28/23 4:31 PM
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