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The Portland Development Commission’s board met Monday in executive session to discuss hiring a new executive director.

The board must reconvene in a public meeting to select a final candidate. Commissioners by Tuesday had not settled on a date for their next meeting, spokesman Shawn Uhlman said.

The PDC is considering: Kimberly Branam, the PDC’s deputy director since 2011; Odis Jones, chief executive of MVP Partners in Detroit and a former CEO of Detroit’s Public Lighting Authority; and Elissa Gertler, planning and development director for Metro and a former PDC economic development manager.

While Jones has executive experience, Branam and Gertler have local knowledge and experience. Branam, in particular, has deep institutional knowledge at the PDC and helped write the agency’s business plan. The PDC has promoted internal candidates before, including Patrick Quinton, who worked at the agency for three years before he was named executive director in 2011.

Quinton announced in February that he would step down, setting off a search for his successor. June 8 was his last day. Faye Brown, the PDC’s chief financial officer, has filled in as interim director.