Susan Black Named Interim LYNX CEO

July 24, 2015

LYNX Board of Directors has unanimously named Susan Black interim chief executive officer.

Black was promoted from her current position as general manager. The new position will begin upon current Chief Executive Officer John M. Lewis Jr. leaving his post on Aug. 31.  Lewis has accepted a job to lead the Charlotte Area Transit System.

As GM, Black oversees the agency’s administrative division including engineering, human resources, information technology, marketing, planning and development, and safety/risk, departments.

A licensed attorney since 1996 and a resident of Central Florida since 1970, Black has more than 25 years of professional experience spanning such industries as engineering/architectural, legal, financial, and health and human services industries.

Prior to her appointment at LYNX, Black was the sole owner and CEO of 4elements, a professional advisory agency specializing in long-range strategic planning; a Senior Vice President for Wachovia Bank’s Personal Trust Company; and an attorney with practice area focus in estate planning and probate.  Black has also served as an adjunct professor for the University of Central Florida College of Health and Public Affairs.

Black is an active volunteer-leader and has served on several not-for-profit boards and committees through the years, most recently for Harbor House of Central Florida.  She has also been a finalist in the Orlando Business Journal’s Women Who Mean Business Awards.

The Sanford, Fla., native earned her bachelor's degree in communication from Florida State University, a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Central Florida and her Juris Doctor from the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida.

LYNX General Counsel Pat Christensen, Akerman Senterfitt, has been authorized to hire a search firm responsible for finding a permanent chief executive officer.