GILBERT H. LAMPHERE

Gilbert has nearly 40 years of experience as a principal investor and financier in rail industry and other private equity transactions. Gilbert has headed four private equity firms and has extensive operational experience as a Chairman and/or board member for a wide range of publicly traded and private companies.

Gilbert is the original financier of Precision Scheduled Railroading and the former Chairman of the Illinois Central Railway, Co-Founder of MidSouth Rail Corporation, is on the board of Norfolk Southern Railway, and is a former board member of Canadian National Railway (Chair of the Finance Committee and a member of the Compensation, Investment, and Audit committees), CSX (Operations, Finance, Compensation, and Public Affairs committees), and Florida East Coast Railway.

Gilbert led teams and boards that bought, managed and revolutionized operations at Illinois Central, MidSouth, Canadian National and Florida East Coast, with alumni leading Canadian Pacific, CSX and Southern Pacific, creating gains for investors in excess of $25 billion.