FALL RIVER
Marine Corps Veteran, successful business leader, and proven government reformer Brian Shortsleeve, Republican candidate for governor, will be touring New Bedford and holding around table in Fall River on Wednesday, October 1st.
Who: Brian Shortsleeve, candidate for governor
When: Wednesday, October 1st
Time: 8:30am to noon
What: Tour and meet with fishing industry leaders
Place: 62 Hassey Street, New Bedford
Time: 1pm
What: Business Roundtable
Place: H&S Tool Engineering, 777 Airport Road, Fall River
Background:
Shortsleeve brings a unique background of service, leadership, and results. After serving as a Marine Corps officer on deployments to Bosnia and the Persian Gulf, he built a successful career in the private sector, founding M33 Growth to help small American technology companies grow and create jobs.
In 2015, following the collapse of the MBTA during a winter crisis, Governor Charlie Baker turned to Shortsleeve to help lead the system’s turnaround. As Chief Administrator, Acting General Manager, and a member of the Fiscal and Management Control Board, Shortsleeve led a sweeping reform effort that cut waste, balanced the budget, modernized outdated systems, accelerated repairs, and rescued the Green Line Extension. The Boston Herald credited him with helping turn “a bloated, underperforming agency into one focused on riders, performance, and results.” The Boston Globe called those reforms “the best thing that ever happened to the transit system.”
A proud Massachusetts native, Shortsleeve attended Harvard College on a ROTC scholarship and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. As a student, he was a leading voice in the effort to protect the ROTC program from efforts by the university to sever ties with the military. He has been named one of the 50 Most Influential People in Boston by the Boston Business Journal and was honored on the Boston Globe’s “Game Changers” list.
Brian and his wife, Liz, have three sons.