Denver International Airport has two new executive vice presidents.
Ken Greene, who has been at DIA for about five years and serves as the airport’s deputy operations manager, will assume the title of chief operating officer, leading the unit that includes infrastructure management, technologies, operations, special projects and DIA’s hotel and transit center.
Bhavesh A. Patel will be chief revenue officer, overseeing commercial, real estate and airport concessions. He currently is the director of airport concessions at Tampa International Airport in Florida.
Patel and Greene each will earn a salary of $198,000, airport spokeswoman Stacey Stegman said.
Greene begins work Jan. 1. Patel will come on board Jan. 20.
Greene and Patel are the first to be appointed under the 2013 ballot Question 2B, which was approved 58.3 percent to 41.7 percent, allowing the “Manager of Aviation to appoint up to five persons to serve in executive or managerial positions.”
The airport’s 2015 budget includes a $4 million increase in the executive office operating and maintenance expenses, $1.2 million of which is set aside for the five allotted hires. Airport , spending closer to $600,000.
