Team

As President of the CTA, Dorval R. Carter, Jr. oversees more than 10,000 employees and helps ensure that everyone works together in adhering to the agency's mission of delivering quality, affordable transit services that link people, jobs and communities.

Appointed as CTA President in 2015, Mr. Carter has led the way for unprecedented investment in CTA. Under Mayors Rahm Emanuel and Lori Lightfoot, Mr. Carter has overseen more than $8 billion of projects completed, begun or announced—including the largest construction project in CTA history (the Red and Purple Modernization), the largest railcar order in the agency’s history, and the reconstruction/rehabilitation of more than 40 rail stations.

Prior to becoming CTA President, Mr. Carter served as the Acting Chief of Staff to U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, managing a department with more than 55,000 employees and a $70 billion budget that oversees air, maritime and surface transportation. 

Prior to that, Mr. Carter served as Acting Deputy Administrator for the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) as well as FTA’s Chief Counsel, where he provided support to the Department of Transportation’s General Counsel on legal matters concerning the federal transit program.

Mr. Carter is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the 2019 Motorola Foundation Excellence in Public Service Award from the Civic Federation of Chicago; the Transportation Research Board’s 2021 Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lectureship; and most recently the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA) 2021 Outstanding Public Transportation Manager Award, the same year the CTA was named APTA’s Outstanding Public Transportation System.

A graduate of Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin, where he is Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Mr. Carter also holds a Juris Doctor degree from Howard University School of Law. He is a proud member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., as well as the Illinois and Federal bar associations.

Thomas McKone currently serves as CTA’s Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. In this role, he has responsibility for the agency’s operating budget, capital program, treasury operations and debt administration, accounting, payroll, business development and revenue, and the agency’s performance management program.

Mr. McKone first joined the CTA in 2012 as Vice President of Budget, Management, & Capital Finance, during which time he led the development and execution of CTA's operating and capital budgets and served as Acting Chief Financial Officer. He spearheaded the CTA's efforts to bring back into balance the CTA operating budget after the recent economic recession and helped lead the CTA's multi-billion-dollar capital infrastructure modernization efforts. In 2016, Mr. McKone took the role of Chief Administrative Officer, overseeing the administrative departments responsible for hiring, employee benefits, workforce development, agency performance management, transit asset management, purchasing, and EEO. He also serves as chair/vice-chair of the Retiree Healthcare Trust and Retirement Plan for CTA Employees.

Through this vast CTA leadership experience, Mr. McKone has been an integral component of the agency's accomplishments, including achieving annual balanced operating budgets, securing TIFIA loans for major CTA capital projects, reaching unprecedented levels of employee recruitment and training and modernizing related processes, managing the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as establishing an industry-leading performance management unit.

He is a graduate of the University of Chicago with a Master’s in Public Policy and a B.A in economics and statistics from Northwestern University.

Sanja E. Noble joined CTA in 2018 as the CTA Director of Treasury Operations. Prior to joining the CTA, Ms. Noble served as the Treasury Manager for The University of Chicago overseeing debt compliance and treasury operations.  She previously managed the debt portfolios for Chicago Public Schools and Cook County Government.  Ms. Noble received her B.A in Economics from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA and Masters in Project Management from Keller Graduate School of Management.

Monica Moy is a Senior Debt Analyst with the Treasury team at CTA. Since joining CTA in 2020, Monica has progressed from Treasury Analyst to her current role, where she leverages her accounting background and financial expertise in managing daily cash operations, cash & investment reporting, and cash position/cash forecasting. Prior to CTA, Monica honed her analytical skills as a Business Systems Analyst at Follett Higher Education Group, where she collaborated with IT and Finance teams to develop, test, and deploy internal applications and systems. Monica holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and a Master of Science degree in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) – both from DePaul University.