Watco's Webb To Receive 2022 Railroad Innovator Award

Progressive Railroading and RailTrends^® have named Watco Executive Chairman Rick Webb the 2022 recipient of the Railroad Innovator Award, which recognizes an individual's outstanding achievement in the rail industry.

Previous Railroad Innovator Award winners include CN's JJ Ruest, CSX's Jim Foote, Kansas City Southern's Pat Ottensmeyer, Association of American Railroads' Ed Hamberger, Genesee & Wyoming Inc.'s Jack Hellmann, CN's Claude Mongeau, CSX's Michael Ward, Canadian Pacific's Keith Creel, Norfolk Southern Corp.'s Wick Moorman, Union Pacific Corp.'s Jim Young, KCS's Mike Haverty, BNSF Railway Co.'s Matt Rose and CN's Hunter Harrison.

2022 Agenda

Tuesday, November 15

8:00AM

Welcome

8:15AM

Fireside Chat: State of the Industry

Chuck Baker President ASLRRA

Ian Jefferies President and Chief Executive Officer Association of American Railroads

9:00AM

Rounding the First Bend in the Growth Journey

Adriene Bailey Partner Oliver Wyman

9:45AM

Morning Networking Break

10:15AM

RailPulse Update

Michael McClellan Sr. Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer Norfolk Southern Corporation

Eric Monger Vice President KBX Rail

Josh Perkes Vice President LOUP Logistics (A UP Subsidiary)

David Shannon General Manager RailPulse

10:45AM

Kansas City Southern

Patrick Ottensmeyer President and Chief Executive Officer Kansas City Southern

11:30AM

Networking Lunch

1:00PM

CP

Keith Creel President and Chief Executive Officer CP

1:30PM

The Market's Impact on Rail

Rick Paterson Managing Director, Equity Division Loop Capital Markets

Lawrence Gross President and Founder Gross Transportation Consulting

Tony Hatch Senior Transportation Analyst ABH Consulting

2:15PM

Rail Industry Update

James Foote Outgoing President and Chief Executive Officer CSX

2:45PM

Aurizon

Andrew Harding Managing Director and CEO Aurizon

3:15PM

Afternoon Networking Break

3:45PM

Short Line Viewpoint

Eric Jakubowski Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer Anacostia Rail Holdings Company

Stefan Loeb Executive Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer Watco Companies, LLC

Michael Miller President, North America Genesee & Wyoming Inc.

Justin Broyles Executive Vice President, Commercial Affairs R.J. Corman

Henry Posner, III Chairman RDC

4:45PM

Railcar Counts

Richard (Dick) Kloster President Integrity Rail Partners

5:30PM

Cocktail Reception

Wednesday, November 16

8:15AM

CN

Tracy Robinson President and Chief Executive Officer CN

8:45AM

Surface Transportation Viewpoint

Martin J. Oberman Chairman Surface Transportation Board

9:15AM

Industry Viewpoints

Ashley Wieland President NRC

Urszula Soucie, CEM President REMSA

Marc Brazeau President and Chief Executive Officer Railway Association of Canada

Patty Long President Railway Supply Institute

10:00AM

NS

Ed Elkins Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer Norfolk Southern

10:30AM

Networking Break

10:45AM

2022 Railroad Innovator of the Year

Rick Webb Executive Chairman Watco

11:15AM

Union Pacific

Rahul Jalali Senior Vice President-Information Technologies and Chief Information Officer Union Pacific

2022 Speaker Lineup

Including 5 Class Is!

Adriene Bailey

Partner

Oliver Wyman

Chuck Baker

President

ASLRRA

Marc Brazeau

President and Chief Executive Officer

Railway Association of Canada

Justin Broyles

Executive Vice President, Commercial Affairs

R.J. Corman

Keith Creel

President and Chief Executive Officer

Ed Elkins

Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer

Norfolk Southern

James Foote

Outgoing President and Chief Executive Officer

CSX

Lawrence Gross

President and Founder

Gross Transportation Consulting

Andrew Harding

Managing Director and CEO

Aurizon

Tony Hatch

Senior Transportation Analyst

ABH Consulting

Eric Jakubowski

Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer

Anacostia Rail Holdings Company

Rahul Jalali

Senior Vice President-Information Technologies and Chief Information Officer

Union Pacific

Ian Jefferies

President and Chief Executive Officer

Association of American Railroads

Richard (Dick) Kloster

President

Integrity Rail Partners

Stefan Loeb

Executive Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer

Watco Companies, LLC

Patty Long

President

Railway Supply Institute

Michael McClellan

Sr. Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer

Norfolk Southern Corporation

Michael Miller

President, North America

Genesee & Wyoming Inc.

Eric Monger

Vice President

KBX Rail

Martin J. Oberman

Chairman

Surface Transportation Board

Patrick Ottensmeyer

President and Chief Executive Officer

Kansas City Southern

Rick Paterson

Managing Director, Equity Division

Loop Capital Markets

Josh Perkes

Vice President

LOUP Logistics (A UP Subsidiary)

Henry Posner, III

Chairman

RDC

Tracy Robinson

President and Chief Executive Officer

David Shannon

General Manager

RailPulse

Urszula Soucie, CEM

President

REMSA

Rick Webb

Executive Chairman

Watco

Ashley Wieland

President

NRC

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Timely

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ABH Consulting

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Marriott Marquis

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