John Cogliano
| John Cogliano | |
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| Chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority | |
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In office August 16, 2006 – July 1, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Matthew J. Amorello |
| Succeeded by | Bernard Cohen |
| Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation | |
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In office 2005–2007 |
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| Preceded by | Daniel Grabauskas |
| Succeeded by | Bernard Cohen |
| Personal details | |
| Residence | Foxborough, Massachusetts |
John Cogliano is a former Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation and Chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. He was appointed to the position by Governor Mitt Romney in May 2005. In 2007 Governor Deval Patrick replaced Cogliano with Bernard Cohen.
Cogliano grew up in Canton, Massachusetts, where his family ran a Plant nursery.
He graduated from Boston College with a degree in Political Science and Economics and later studied Administration and Management at Harvard University.
Cogliano worked at his family's nursery until 1991 when his father and uncle decided to sell the business.
In 1991 Cogliano was hired as a project manager for the Massachusetts Division of Capital Planning and Operations. In 1997 he moved to the Massachusetts Highway Department. He was appointed the department's Commissioner in 2002.
John Cogliano served as Commissioner of the Massachusetts Highway Department from 2002 to 2005. As Commissioner, he managed more than 1,800 employees and a budget of $700 million. During his tenure, Cogliano advanced a number of the Romney Administration's key initiatives, such as implementing the Fix it First and Communities First policies, streamlining operations and reducing bureaucratic inefficiencies and Red Tape at the Highway Department, implementing the use of GPS technology to bring accountability to MassHighway's snow and ice operations, accelerating spending on road and bridge projects to a minimum of $450 million a year, and breaking ground on the project to eliminate the Sagamore Rotary. He also helped develop the Romney Administration's Long-Range Transportation Plan, which calls for $31 billion in transportation improvements over the next 20 years and will serve as a blueprint for carrying out projects and policies under his Secretariat.
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