Leadership
YPT Seattle is led by local young professionals with a love of transportation. Like our membership, our leadership comes from a wide range of focuses in the transportation field.
Tim Mamedov (He/Him)
Lead Chair
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Tim Mamedov serves as the General Manager at IL Logistics, a locally owned trucking company operating across the Greater Seattle Area and the Pacific Northwest. In his role, Tim oversees day-to-day operations, leads the company’s sales initiatives, and manages a growing team dedicated to providing reliable, customer-focused logistics solutions.
Tim began his career in the supply chain industry at just 19 years old. Over the years, he has developed a deep passion for transportation — viewing it as the lifeblood of modern society. “Every aspect of our lives connects to transportation,” he says. “It’s the vein that keeps everything moving.”
As part of YPT Seattle, Tim is eager to represent the logistics sector and bring greater visibility to the essential role it plays in our communities. His goal is to inspire more people to engage with and appreciate the vital work that keeps goods — and life — in motion.
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Day Job:
General Manager at IL Logistics​
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Steven Tuttle (He/Him)
Vice Chair
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Steven Tuttle is a Right-of-Way Engineering Project Manager at Sound Transit. Steven grew up in the Seattle area and studied Civil Engineering at the University of Washington. He has been passionate about transit for many years and was inspired to pursue Civil Engineering after seeing the regional transformation with the opening of the University Link Light Rail extension while he was in college. He enjoys traveling to different cities and riding their transit systems as well as camping and hiking in the area. He has been a member of Seattle YPT for the past year and is looking forward to giving back to the transportation community as Vice-Chair.
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Day Job:
Project Manager at Sound Transit
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Carlton Louie (He/They)
Director of Program and Events
Carlton Louie is an Associate Vehicle Systems Engineer at Sound Transit, where he supports rolling stock data, communication, and power systems while collaborating across disciplines to enhance the onboard passenger experience and guide fleet lifecycle planning. He previously worked as a traction power engineer at SFMTA in San Francisco, where maintaining the trolleybus overhead network fueled his passion for electrified transit technologies. Carlton studied Aerospace Engineering at The University of Arizona with a researching nuclear fusion energy before pursuing a career in public transportation. A lifelong transit enthusiast, he is dedicated to advancing environmentally sustainable and socially equitable mobility through vehicle technologies, and in his free time he enjoys rock climbing, cooking, reading, building his model railroad, and railfanning.
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Day Job:
Associate Vehicle Systems Engineer at Sound Transit
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Henry Bendon (He/Him)
Director of Communications
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A lifelong lover of trains and public transit advocate, Henry currently serves as a Public Information Officer at Sound Transit. He received his B.A. in Political Science & French from Case Western Reserve University and his Masters in Public Administration from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. In Richmond, he worked for the nation's largest fare free bus system as the communications specialist, leading the campaigns to support the opening of Richmond's first ever Downtown Transfer Station for buses, writing and winning $5M in grant applications to support the extension of GRTC Route 1, and more. Today, he works at Sound Transit, supporting light rail operations, the Stride BRT program, and serving as a face of the agency on social media as @henryonboard.
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Day Job:
Public Information Officer at Sound Transit
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Jonah Lorica (He/Him)
Director of Membership
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Jonah Lorica is a Transportation Engineer at Fehr & Peers in Seattle. Born and raised in Hawaii, Jonah’s firsthand experience with local transportation challenges sparked his passion for creating safe, equitable, and sustainable transportation systems. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and later completed a master’s degree in Transportation Engineering at the University of Washington. Outside of work, he enjoys exploring transit networks, cheering on his favorite sports teams, and discovering new music to play on repeat. Jonah has been involved with YPT Seattle for two years and looks forward to welcoming more professionals to YPT as Director of Membership.
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Day Job:
Transportation Engineer at Fehr & Peers
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