Kristi Lafleur

Kristi Lafleur was selected as Executive Director by the Illinois Tollway Board of Directors in April 2010. She is the first woman to serve in this role in the Tollway's history. Lafleur is responsible for managing the agency’s day-to-day operations, overseeing its estimated $998 million annual budget and leading the nearly 1,600 employees in providing a safe, effective and efficient toll highway system and ensuring the highest possible level of customer service for the Tollway's 1.4 million daily drivers. In 2011, Lafleur and the Tollway Board successfully secured a new 15-year, $12 billion capital program, Move Illinois: The Illinois Tollway Driving the Future. Move Illinois is the largest capital program in the agency’s history and the largest of any toll road agency in the nation. It will improve mobility, relieve congestion, reduce pollution, create as many as 120,000 jobs and link economies across the Midwest region. Lafleur serves on the Board of Directors of the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association, the worldwide association for owners and operators of toll facilities and businesses that serve tolling. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Toll Interoperability, a coalition of more than 40 toll road operators dedicated to promoting and implementing interstate interoperability, and on the Executive Board of the E-ZPass Group, an association of 24 toll agencies in 14 states that works to advance interoperability of toll collection systems throughout North America. In addition, she serves on the advisory boards of the Chicago Innovation Awards and Women’s Transportation Seminar Greater Chicago Chapter.