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What we do

The Managing Director’s Office (MDO) is a cabinet-level office with oversight of the City’s operating departments. The MDO works with these departments to:

Create and successfully enact new policies.
Deliver efficient, effective, and responsive public services.
Implement the mayor’s vision.

The MDO oversees the following divisions:

Capital Program Office
Community Services
General Services
Health and Human Services
Office of Children and Families
Office of Transportation and Infrastructure Systems

The MDO also provides strategic oversight and support for the Philadelphia Fire Department, Department of Prisons, Department of Licenses and Inspections, Office of Emergency Management, and the Office of Integrated Data for Evidence and Action.

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Address	1401 John F. Kennedy Blvd. Suite 1430 Philadelphia, PA 19102
Email	MDO@phila.gov
	Phone: (215) 686-3480

Resources

Orders and directives

The City’s managing directors issue orders and directives to guide the work of the City’s operating departments.

Bouncers and training providers

Learn about getting certification to be a bouncer or bouncer training provider.

Philadelphia’s rotational towing program

This program provides safe, fair towing services for crashes and disabled vehicles on city streets.

Leadership

Adam K. Thiel

Managing Director

Adam K. Thiel was appointed by Mayor Cherelle L. Parker to serve as the City of Philadelphia’s managing director, effective January 1, 2024. The managing director is the City’s chief operating officer (COO) and a principal member of the mayor’s cabinet.

From 2016 to 2024, Managing Director Thiel was the uniformed fire commissioner for the Philadelphia Fire Department (PFD), with a concurrent appointment as a deputy managing director, and also served as the Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management (OEM) director from 2019 to 2022. During his 33-year career, across five states, Thiel has worked in government (local, state, and federal), the private sector, and not-for-profit organizations; before coming to Philadelphia, he was a deputy secretary of public safety and homeland security for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Adam is an Eisenhower USA fellow, an Aspen Institute health innovation fellow, and a Leadership Philadelphia alumnus. A lifelong learner, Thiel has attended the University of Pennsylvania, the London School of Economics and Political Science, Arizona State University, George Mason University, the University of Maryland Global Campus, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; he is an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University and George Mason University.

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Name	Job title	Email	Phone #	Social
Michael Carroll	Deputy Managing Director for Transportation and Infrastructure
Brian Clinton	Chief of Staff
Sharon Gallagher	Senior Director of Communications
Vanessa Garrett Harley	Chief Deputy Managing Director for Children and Families
Tara Mohr	First Deputy Managing Director
Aparna Palantino	Director of Capital Program Office
Aubrey C. Powers	Deputy Managing Director for Community Services
David G. Wilson	Deputy Managing Director for General Services
Crystal Yates-Gale	Deputy Managing Director for Health and Human Services

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