Luis Montoya serves as Deputy CEO and Chief Operating Officer, providing strategic and operational leadership for the agency’s core functions, including transportation, facilities, fleet, safety, and planning. He plays a key role in aligning day-to-day service delivery with long-term planning and organizational priorities to ensure safe, reliable, and customer-focused transit service across the region. As the CEO’s senior deputy, he serves as a key partner and may act on behalf of the CEO’s behalf when needed.
Montoya joined DART in 2018 as Planning Manager and has since held several leadership roles, including Chief Planning Officer and Chief Operating and Planning Officer. During his tenure, he has helped guide the organization through a period of significant change and progress—leading innovative service pilots and partnerships, advancing long-range and strategic planning, navigating the COVID-19 pandemic, overseeing the Operations & Maintenance Facility project, and helping shape DART’s new network redesign through Reimagine DART, a community-driven planning initiative.
Prior to joining DART, Montoya served as Director of Livable Streets for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a master’s degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).