UTU members elect leaders

Freight-road rosters

• Union Pacific Railroad named Joe Adams, Joe Bateman and Scott Moore vice presidents of public affairs for the Southern, Northern and Western regions, respectively.
• RailAmerica Inc. named Harold Tynes VP and controller.
• The Indiana Rail Road Co. named Jacklyn Hardy director of human resources and chief administrative officer.
• The Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway named Stephen Greene VP of mechanical.
• Anacostia & Pacific Co. Inc. named Paul Victor general superintendent of the New York & Atlantic Railway Co.

Board room

• The Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority elected Long Beach, Calif., Vice Mayor Bonnie Lowenthal as 2007-2008 chair of its governing board.
• VIA Rail Canada Inc. appointed Donald Mutch to a two-year board term.

Supply side

• Union Switch & Signal Inc. announced President and CEO Ken Burk has resigned. The company named SVP of business development for US&S parent Ansaldo STS Emmanuel Violett interim CEO. US&S also named Keith Szewczyk director of product development; Scott Baird, VP of the Automation & Information System (A&IS) business unit; and J. Jay Anderson, director of engineering for A&IS.
• Wabtec Corp. named Merrill Lynch Vice Chairman of Investment Banking Brian Hehir to the board.
• Vossloh AG revoked CEO and Executive Board Chairman Gerhard Eschenröder’s contract because of “serious differences of opinion on the executive board, and between the CEO and supervisory board”; and named CFO Werner Andree executive board spokesman.
• Simmons Machine Tool Corp. named David Wm. Davis president and chief operating officer.
• Salco Technologies L.L.C. named Alex Degutis VP and general manager; Scott Swanson, VP of sales; John Davey, senior product development engineer; Brian Putnam, VP of product sourcing; and Rasa DeLafosse, product manager.
• Railinc named Karen Folino assistant VP, industry support services.
• Global Rail Systems Inc. named Brian Ellison director of sales.
• Cattron Group International named Chris Loeffler senior sales engineer.

Engineering/Consulting

• URS Corp. named C.N. “Raj” Rangaraj VP and division quality officer.
• Parsons Brinckerhoff named Rick Cunningham SVP and national strategic sales manager.
• Gannett Fleming named Sam Mayman VP and regional transit manager.
• Southwest Signal Engineering Co. named Alex Spicer senior signal engineer.
• Rail Sciences Inc. added Russell Quimby to its engineering staff.