Job description: Grace joined CEDAR AI in 2021 following four years at Pan Am Railways and four years at GE Transportation. Grace came on board at Cedar as a subject matter expert for railroad accounting and was promoted to senior leadership in 2023.

Why she's influential in technology: With an expertise in interline settlement and railroad accounting, Grace has a vision for the short-line industry that helps railroads offer a pricing product competitive with Amazon and trucking. She envisions a future where shippers can get instant quotes and receive accurate estimated times of arrival. This is not just a vision, as Grace has designed and built a system of the future with a team of software engineers at Cedar AI and then implemented this system at multiple leading short lines and holding companies. Grace is laying the foundation for the short-line rail industry to increase their carload market share by attracting more volume to rail from long-haul trucking.