North Carolina Turnpike Authority Staff
David W. Joyner, Executive DirectorEmail:
David W. Joyner was appointed as the first executive director of the NCTA in June 2005.
Joyner's career spans nearly 30 years of experience in federal, state and local government, with assignments as an Intergovernmental and Congressional Relations Officer and as Special Assistant to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation. He was also the first person to be named Vice-President of State Government Affairs for Burson-Marsteller, the nation's largest public relations/public affairs firm. As such, he managed a nationwide corps of lobbyists and oversaw state public affairs strategies for many of the nation's Fortune 500 companies.
In 1994, Joyner moved to Raleigh and co-founded State Capitol Strategies, a fifty-state legislative bill tracking and issue analysis company that was later sold to The Washington Post. Most recently, Joyner served as a consultant to Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice Administration Services.
Joyner is a native of Rocky Mount and a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.