CSX has named Steve Fortune as executive vice president and chief digital and technology officer.
He was hired aft6er spending 30 years at BP, where he served as chief information officer of the global BP Group.
At CSX, Fortune will lead all digital and technology operations and planning.
Fortune began at BP as a chemical and process engineer, before moving into operations management and information technology.
CSX has named Sean Pelkey executive vice president and chief financial officer.
Pelkey joined CSX in 2005 and most recently has held the position of vice president and acting chief financial officer. Previously he was CSX vice president of finance and treasury.
In a news release, CSX said Pelky has more than 16 years of experience in finance and capital management.
CSX announced Monday that it has given new roles to three top-ranking executives.
Mark K. Wallace, who had been executive vice president of sales and marketing, becomes executive vice president, a role focusing on special projects and initiatives supporting CEO James M. Foote.
Kevin S. Boone becomes executive vice president of sales and marketing after most recently serving as executive vice president and chief financial officer. He joined CSX in September 2017.
Sean R. Pelkey becomes vice president and acting chief financial officer. He most recently served as vice president, finance and treasury. He joined CSX in 2005.
CSX has named Arthur Adams as senior vice president of sales.
He has been at CSX since 2007, most recently as vice president of sales and supply chain solutions.
He has overseen the transformation of customer service operations and e-solutions enhancements as head of marketing services, CSX said in a news release.
Adams will continue to be responsible for all sales within agriculture and food, chemicals, fertilizers, paper and forest, metals, and minerals, and lead customer engagement and TRANSFLO.
CSX Executive Vice President Edmond Harris will retire on Aug. 1.
Edmond Harris
Harris joined CSX in January 2018 and his duties as vice president included oversight of safety, performance metrics, operational planning and other functional areas.
He has worked in the railroad industry for 50 years, including a decade of working with the late E. Hunter Harrison, who was CEO of CSX at the time of his death.
Harrison also served as CEO at Canadian Pacific, Canadian National and the Illinois Central.
Harris also worked with current CSX CEO James Foote at CN.
“When I was entrusted to lead CSX in December 2017, the first phone call I made was to Ed Harris, because I knew that there was no better railroader to help with the transformation of CSX and guide the continued implementation of our operating model,” said Foote in a new release announcing Harris’ retirement.
Harris began his railroad career in 1968 at the Illinois Central where he served in several roles until being named EVP of operations.
He retired from the IC in 2007 and worked as an independent rail operations consultant.
Between 2010 and 2011, Harris was EVP and chief operations officer of Canadian Pacific. After leaving that post he resumed doing consulting work for CP.
“I’ve been fortunate to have played a role in several successful transformations over the years, but this experience at CSX was by far the most rewarding and satisfying of my career and what I’m most proud of,” Harris said in the CSX news release.
CSX said that the safety and facilities groups that had reported to Harris will transition to reporting to Jamie Boychuk, EVP of operations.
Jeffrey Wall has been named as CSX vice president of labor relations.
In a news release CSX said Wall will be responsible for overall labor strategy and working with unions that represent nearly 17,000 employees.
Wall has more than 20 years of labor relations and negotiating experience and was most recently a partner at FordHarrison LLP in Washington where he represented major airlines and other carriers.
Wall served previously as vice president of labor relations at United Airlines and served in labor-focused leadership positions at United Continental Holdings and Continental Airlines.
He will report to Diana Sorfleet, CSX executive vice president and chief administrative officer.
In a related development, CSX has appointed retired Maj. Gen. Suzanne Vautrinot as a member of its board of directors.
Vautrinot currently is president of Kilovolt Consulting Inc., a cybersecurity strategy and technology consulting firm.
She retired from the U.S. Air Force in October 2013 and during her 31-year military career served in various assignments, including cyber operations, plans and policy, strategic security and space operations.
She serves on the boards of Wells Fargo, Ecolab. and Parsons Corporation. As a CSX board member Vautrinot will serve on the Audit Committee and Governance Committee.
CSX has announced changes the management of its sales and marketing division, promoting Farrukh Bezar to Senior Vice President Marketing and Arthur Adams to Vice President Merchandise Sales.
The carrier also said Vice President Industrial Products Dean Piacente and Vice President Food and Agricultural Products Tim McNulty are retiring following more than 30 years of service.
Bezar, who joined CSX in May as SVP and Chief Strategy Officer with 25 years’ experience in transportation and logistics, will now lead the railroad’s merchandise marketing groups, in addition to continuing his corporate strategy role.
Adams will be responsible for leading all sales portfolios within the industrial products, food and agriculture, fertilizers and regional sales segments. He will also continue to oversee customer engagement and TRANSFLO services. Adams has been with CSX for 12 years.
Vice President Intermodal and Automotive Maryclare Kenney, Vice President Energy Adam Longson and Vice President Real Estate and Facilities Management Shantel Daviswill continue in their current roles.
CSX has announced the appointment of two high-ranking executives.
It has named Kevin Boone as its full-time chief financial officer and appointed Jamie Boychuk as executive vice president of operations.
Ed Harris, who had held the operations position, will serve as executive vice president with a combination of operating and general executive responsibilities.
Boone has served as interim chief financial officer of CSX since May. He joined CSX in 2017 as vice president of corporate affairs and chief investor relations officer, and also has served as vice president of marketing and strategy.
He had previously worked in research and analysis positions at Janus Capital, Morgan Stanley, and Merrill Lynch.
Boychuk joined CSX in 2017 after 20 years at Canadian National. At CSX he has served as assistant vice president of transportation support, vice president of scheduled railroading and senior vice president of network operations, mechanical, engineering, and intermodal operations.
Harris joined CSX in January 2018 as executive vice president of operations.
In a news release CSX said Harris will “continue to train, coach, and mentor operations leadership while maintaining oversight of several key functional areas, including safety, performance metrics, and operational planning.”
CSX has named Adam Longson as its vice president of energy effective Sept. 9. He will be based in the company’s sales and marketing division.
Longson has expertise in energy and transportation analytics and will oversee the newly consolidated energy portfolio, including export and domestic utility coal, as well as the company’s liquefied petroleum gas and crude oil businesses.
He most recently was director of commodity research and hedging at Continental Resources, where he oversaw all energy and commodity-related research.
Before that Longson was head of commodity research at Madava Asset Management, global head of energy commodity research at Morgan Stanley, vice president of equity research for freight transportation at Morgan Stanley, and a senior strategy analyst at British Petroleum.
CSX Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Frank Lonegro has left the company.
No reason for given for his departure from the carrier that he has served since 1999. During his time at CSX, Lonegro also held the posts of vice president of CSX Technology, vice president of mechanical, VP of internal audit and associate general counsel.
He was one of the holdover senior managers who continued during the administrations of E. Hunter Harrison and Michael Ward.
While CSX conducts a search for Lonegro’s replacement, Vice President of Marketing and Strategy Kevin Boone will serve as interim CFO, company officials said in a press release.
Boone joined CSX in September 2017 as VP of corporate and chief investor relations officer.
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