News 10 ABC: Public Partnerships LLC going through leadership shakeups
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Posted: Jul 15, 2025 / 06:28 PM EDT
Updated: Jul 15, 2025 / 06:30 PM EDT
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The president of Public Partnerships LLC announced she would transition out of her role. This comes after the C.E.O. resigned. The changes were first reported by the Times Union. On Tuesday NEWS10 confirmed the departure of the C.F.O. as well.
The top three executives at Public Partnerships (P.P.L.) will all transition out of their roles before the end of the year.
In a statement the company said: “Over the past several years, PPL has undergone a thoughtful leadership evolution to further the company’s growth and long-term viability. Supporting CDPAP consumers and personal assistants across New York state remains PPL’s top priority.”
P.P.L.’s C.E.O. Vince Coppola resigned in June and was replaced by Miki Kapoor. President Maria Perrin announced her departure on Friday. And C.F.O. Sherwin Krug will be retiring this Fall.
According to a PPL spokesperson: “This was a planned transition and Sherwin has played an active role in identifying and onboarding his successor, who has started working with PPL to take over financial responsibilities in light of Sherwin’s retirement.”
The news of the leadership shakeup broke before the company was slated to appear in front of the New York State Senate to answer questions related to the home care program (C.D.P.A.P.) transition.
That hearing was slated to take place last week but was postponed to August 21 after the Department of Health requested additional time to prepare.
Critics of PPL characterized the departures as: “The Titanic is sinking, and the captains are abandoning ship.”
Caring Majority Rising released a statement that read in part: “This leadership exodus demands answers: Were these officials fired for PPL’s catastrophic performance in New York? Did they resign rather than face accountability for the crisis they’ve created? The Senate’s August 21 hearing must extract these answers from PPL – regardless of who may be left to answer them.”
Advocates caught the attention of lawmakers like Senators Gustavo Rivera – chair of the health committee – and James Skoufis – chair of the investigations and government operations committee.
Senator Skoufis said the public hearing is happening because elected officials have heard from thousands of constituents, in every senate and assembly district, who voiced concerns.
“Sometimes grave concerns about what is happening to their care, what is happening to their family, and to their neighbors, and their peers, and that’s why we’re having this hearing,” said Skoufis.
He added, “one of the key functions of the legislature, in my opinion, is oversight and that oversight extends to the executive branch, it extends to businesses that have activity before the state that affects, hundreds of thousands in this case, our constituents and fellow New Yorkers.”
The committees are set to hold a joint public hearing to analyze the CDPAP transition August 21.
“There continues to be a lot of questions around the transition’s impact on quality of care,” said Skoufis. He said issues center around consumers’ transition, from the old Fiscal Intermediaries to P.P.L.
“There were questions and issues and concerns around PPL’s nonpayment, in April in particular, to many workers,” said Skoufis.
He said there are questions around the procurement process, how P.P.L. got the award to be the one company that runs everything statewide. There are bid-rigging allegations.
“I’m not professing to suggest whether those allegations are true or unfounded. We are going to be asking lots of questions that speak to all of these questions and concerns and issues and getting to the bottom of what the facts are, what the truth is,” said Skoufis. “Certainly, our committees do not enter this hearing with any predisposed opinions or judgments. We are going to be making those judgments based on what we hear at this investigative hearing.”
Skoufis said the hearing is going to instruct next steps, whether that’s an investigation or legislative recourse.
“What we get from this hearing is going to inform how we proceed and obviously if we don’t get full cooperation then the investigation continues, and we are going to pull answers out of people. Our expectation, our desire, our hope is that we are going to get full cooperation. We’re going to get clarity and answers to all of our questions and then we’re going to determine what the next best step is from there,” said Skoufis.
In a statement Senator Rivera said the hearing is, “an opportunity for PPL to speak to their leadership’s decisions around the transition that continues to impact thousands of New Yorkers. I expect PPL to be prepared to provide answers on the entirety of the transition, including decisions made by the former executive leadership.”
For consumer and caregiver who have not completed the enrollment process with P.P.L. the final deadline is August 1.
P.P.L. holds virtual registration sessions every Wednesday, from 12-1pm and in-office registration assistance by appointment.