{"id":253993,"date":"2026-07-28T19:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253993\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T19:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:48:19","slug":"philadelphias-managing-director-adam-thiel-steps-down-from-position-takes-job-in-private-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253993\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia&#8217;s Managing Director Adam Thiel steps down from position, takes job in private sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.abcotvs.com\/dip\/images\/16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, July 28, 2026 7:14PM<\/p>\n<p>Watch the 6abc Philadelphia 24\/7 stream featuring Action News, AccuWeather and Entertainment<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker announced changes to her administration on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Managing Director Adam Thiel is stepping down from his role to take a job in the private sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He will be replaced by Carlton Williams, who currently serves as the Director of the Office of Clean and Green Initiatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Thiel has served as Managing Director since Parker took office in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Prior to that, he was the Fire Commissioner under former mayor Jim Kenney.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, July 28, 2026 7:14PM Watch the 6abc Philadelphia 24\/7 stream featuring Action News, AccuWeather and Entertainment PHILADELPHIA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[108303,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-253993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-108303","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}