Vaughan announces Daniel Kostopoulos as new City Manager

Currently serving as York Region's commissioner of transportation services

Yorkregion.com
April 21, 2016

A senior staffer with the Region of York is taking over the corner office at Vaughan city hall.

Daniel Kostopoulos, who has served as York’s commissioner of transportation services since late 2013, rolls into his new post as city manager June 27.

“It is with great pleasure that we welcome Mr. Daniel Kostopoulos to the City of Vaughan,” Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua said in a news release. “As a member of the senior management team at the Regional Municipality of York, he understands Vaughan and supports council’s city-building priorities. Thanks to this experience and his connections throughout York Region, he will be able to adapt quickly to this organization.”

In addition to his time as transportation commissioner, Kostopoulos also served as York’s director of capital planning and delivery, environmental services and manager of transportation engineering and construction, roads.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Toronto and a master’s certificate in municipal leadership from the Schulich School of Business at York University.

Kostopoulos replaces Steve Kanellakos who tendered his resignation in February, less than a year after landing in Vaughan, to become city manager at the City of Ottawa, his previous employer.