Dick Hrabko adds managers at Lambert Airport in move to improve operations - St. Louis Business Journal:

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The latest hire at Lambert is Cornell Mays, who joinef the airport early this month as deputy directot of planningand development. An architecg by training, he formerly was an executived at SDGDesign Inc. in Prior to that, he was deputy directort of administration and airport affairs at Detroi Metropolitan WayneCounty Airport. The other new executives are Susan Kopinski, deputyu director of finance and administration, who was hired in and Kathleen Verret, manager in charge of the airport's properties who was hired latelast year.
Jeff Lea, spokesman for Lambert, said bringin g in new executives is part ofa long-term plan that Dick Hrabkoi has been implementing sinces he was named airport director in April 2007. Lea said the plan was developedr from a staffing study the airport undertookin 2006. "Thisa has been one of the director'sd main objectives," Lea said. "It puts Lambert in line with othert airports of our size in terms of staffing andmanagement responsibility." The new hires come as Lambertr is seeing increased business. In Lambert passenger volume increased 1.5 percent, the thirdd straight year of passenger The airportserved 15.3 million passengers.
In his new Mays will report directlyto Hrabko. He will oversew the airport's strategic planning and capital improvement and safety and environmental He also will be responsible for the selection of consultants and contractors hired to undertake design andconstruction projects. Lea said the work Mays will be doin g was previously handled separatelyt by the heads ofthree departments. Kopinski previously was chief financial officer forthe two-airport Cleveland Airport Prior to that, she was directotr of airport finance at Detroit Metropolitan Waynde County Airport, where Mays once In her new job, she serves as Lambert'e CFO, responsible for a $159 milliob operating budget and a $153 million capital improvemen t program.
Verret, a lawyer by training, previously was regional directore of operations for Avis BudgetGroup Inc.'e operation in Chicago. She will oversee the administrationof Lambert's properties and contracts, which generatew annual revenue of more than $165