The North American rail industry is once again facing significant change – and with that comes an opportunity for growth via increased market share and prioritized truck-competitive services. So how can railroads leverage their position to capture a bigger slice of the freight market? Shorter routes, better collaboration between interchanges, and fresh approaches to operations are just the start.

Join Progressive Railroading for an in-depth conversation about the rail industry’s critical moment. Leading industry voices and will share insights on where things stand today and what the future might look like – and offer a look at what’s to come as rail professionals converge at a number of key industry gatherings, including IANA and RailTrends.

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Speakers

Adriene has always been drawn to those problems where the optimal solutions may not be the obvious ones. In a word: puzzles. In her late 20s, she joined a US Class 1 railroad to lead their newly formed service design function. For the next 25 years, she worked in leadership roles for transportation providers—from railroads to intermodal to truck brokerage to international freight forwarding and contract logistics. The common thread was always a transformational challenge that needed to be solved – whether in a line commercial or operating role or in the strategy/development chair.

Adriene is excited by the challenges and opportunities facing the industry. The global supply chain is full of potential and has an imperative to be more resilient and more efficient. The ability for multiple parties to integrate information and orchestrate operations across organizational boundaries holds the promise of unlocking a tremendous amount of value for the world—and to eliminate costly bottlenecks and failures within the system. She is driven to treat the global supply chain as a shared and vital asset and develop trust-based standards that allow for greater integration and visibility across the ecosystem and methods of responding to and optimizing our responses to disruptions at scale.

Anthony B. Hatch was honored by being named the 2019 North American Rail Shippers Association (NARS) Person of the Year. Tony has been a senior transportation analyst on Wall Street for over 30 years, starting at major financial institutions (Salomon Brothers; Argus, PaineWebber, Natwest Markets) prior to starting his independent analyst/consultancy at the turn of the century.

Mr. Hatch is known for his knowledge of the intermodal area, where the various modes of freight transport converge, on which he has held several dozen specialized conferences, prior to co-founding and co-leading RailTrends in the 21st century, the rail industry’s most comprehensive conference. Mr. Hatch provides traditional yet independent institutional transport research; he also provides bespoke research such as due diligence and other services to new players in transport investment. In addition to assignments with various trade and government organizations, various freight shipper and supplier organizations, and management consulting, he has worked with an extensive list of private equity/infrastructure firms in the space, both domestically and globally.

Mr. Hatch, when directly on the street, was named to various honor rolls, including the institutional investor (ii) and Wall Street Journal all-star teams and he garnered the top spot in the prestigious Greenwich poll. He is a past president of the motor carrier analyst's association. His career highlight had been testifying before congress on railroads, starting in 1998, among other testimonies.

Mr. Hatch graduated from Harvard College with an a.b. In American History. He lives in New York City and enjoys baseball, real football (Spurs), Harvard sports, in addition to history (British, US, Canadian), politics, and sports cars.

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