Randy Kyrias 

earned a bachelor´s degree in management from Pepperdine University (Malibu, Calif.) in 1992 and followed with a master´s degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California four years later. He moved to Idaho in 1999 where he spent the first few years in the Treasure Valley as a consultant before joining Valley Regional Transit (which operates Valley Ride) in 2003. As deputy director at VRT, Kyrias became familiar with the role Public Transportation plays in administering grants and shaping the development of Idaho´s rapidly developing rural transportation providers.  Kyrias was named Public Transportation Division Administrator in 2007.