Luis Henriques is Regional Vice President for Connecticut at LAZ Parking and has spent more than 35 years helping build, operate and grow one of the company’s foundational markets.
Luis began his LAZ career in Hartford in 1989 as a valet and parking attendant, just eight years after the company was founded there in 1981. From those early frontline roles, he advanced through event management, general management and statewide portfolio leadership before becoming Regional Vice President for Connecticut.
His career reflects both the growth-from-within culture that has long defined LAZ and the evolution of the Connecticut market itself. Over more than three decades, Luis has worked across healthcare, higher education and collegiate athletics, municipalities and public agencies, airports, stadiums and major event venues, as well as hospitality, mixed-use, commercial and residential properties.
His Connecticut experience includes operations serving nationally recognized institutions and destinations such as Yale Athletics, UConn, Hartford HealthCare, Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field, PeoplesBank Arena and The Meadows Music Theatre.
Luis has also been closely involved in some of the region’s most demanding operating environments. His event experience includes a 40,000-seat stadium supported by approximately 10,600 parking spaces, a 24,000-plus-capacity amphitheater, and major downtown venues requiring coordinated traffic management, staffing, revenue controls, transportation and guest service at significant scale.
Beyond parking operations, Luis was instrumental in establishing LAZ’s first dedicated maintenance operation in Connecticut, helping build a Hartford-based platform that expanded into snow removal, landscaping and property services. For more than 25 years, that operation has supported the readiness of garages, surface lots and other facilities through demanding New England weather conditions.
Luis’s leadership today is grounded in a rare combination of institutional knowledge, long-standing client relationships and firsthand experience at nearly every level of the operation. He understands the market not only from an executive perspective, but from having worked directly in the field, managed major events, led operating teams and helped expand LAZ’s capabilities in one of its original markets.
His career has grown alongside LAZ itself—from its Hartford roots into a North American parking, transportation and mobility organization managing more than 2.1 million parking spaces across approximately 5,700 locations in 639 cities.
Luis represents an important part of LAZ’s Connecticut legacy: a leader who grew with the company, helped build the market from the ground up, and continues to carry that operating knowledge forward as LAZ evolves.