SYRACUSE — Jason Terreri, the new executive director of Syracuse Hancock International Airport, will begin his new job on May 13.

The Syracuse Regional Airport Authority (SRAA) on April 19 announced it had selected Terreri as the new director. He replaces Christina Callahan, who left in February to become deputy general manager of LaGuardia Airport in New York City.

Terreri has a five-year contract with an annual salary of $175,000, an SRAA spokesperson confirmed in an email reply to a CNYBJ inquiry.

Terreri most recently served as the senior operations project director for Airports Worldwide, Inc. in Sanford, Florida.

A search committee selected Terreri as a finalist for the position “from a national field of competitive candidates,’ SRAA said. Albany–based Steven Baldwin Associates, which provides airport-management consulting, conducted the national search to find and select Terreri.

The SRAA board of directors voted “unanimously” to confirm the selection at its April 19 board meeting, per its release. 

About Terreri

SRAA describes Terreri as an “industry veteran” who has more than 15 years of senior airport-management experience. 

As senior operations project director for Airports Worldwide, Inc., Terreri was responsible for executive-management projects that included airport planning and development activities, strategic deployment of large-scale capital projects, and oversight of air-service development activities for “multiple” airports within the Airports Worldwide portfolio, SRAA said. 

He has also previously served as assistant director of airports for Horry County Department of Airports in South Carolina, and as the interim director of new business development for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Georgia.

“I’m delighted to be joining the team of Syracuse Airport professionals, as well as my family and I becoming members of the region and the Syracuse community at large,” Terreri said in the release. “This is an exciting time for the airport and I look forward to contributing to the development of an expanded customer base, the development of additional top-notch facilities at the airport, and getting to know the wonderful central New York region which the airport serves.”