Doug Lipari is the inaugural Executive Director of the Office of Community Hiring (OCH), an office within the Mayor’s Office of Talent and Workforce Development. Before being appointed as Executive Director of OCH, Lipari served as the deputy general counsel of the Mayor’s Office of Contract Services (MOCS). Lipari plays an instrumental role in negotiating the city’s Project Labor agreements, which cover several billion dollars of construction work, and establish the City’s ambitious and first-ever Community Hiring goals for the construction trades. With a decade of City procurement experience, Lipari recognizes the immense power of city contracting and leads OCH’s efforts to harness this power to drive economic mobility by connecting local talent and the vendors who do business with the City. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Duquesne University and a Juris Doctor from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.