Transportation
Former
Union Pacific Official Named New Amtrak President
(enr.construction.com - 08/30/06)
By Tom
Ichniowski
Amtrak's board has picked Alexander
Kummant, a former senior executive at the Union Pacific Railroad,
to be its new president and CEO. Kummant, whose appointment
was announced Aug. 29, will begin his new job Sept. 12.
David J. Hughes, who has been Amtrak's interim president
since November 2005, will remain with the railroad, "...In
a yet to be specified capacity," said the company, whose
formal name is the National Railroad Passenger Corp.
Hughes, formerly Amtrak's chief engineer, became interim president
after the board dismissed David L. Gunn from the railroad's
top job.
Kummant most recently has been executive vice president
and chief marketing officer of construction equipment company
Komatsu America Corp. in Rolling Meadows, Ill. He was named
to that post in April 2005.
Earlier Kummant worked at the Union Pacific, as a regional
vice president, vice president and general manager of industrial
products and vice president for premium operations. He also
spent seven years at Emerson Electric Co.
