Executive Moves: FourKites, Norfolk Southern and CMQ

FourKites adds senior leaders, while Norfolk Southern appoints new board members and Central Maine & Quebec Railway names executive chairman and CEO.    Cloud-based supply chain tracking and visibility solutions provider FourKites has hired two new senior leaders. Peter Yost has joined the company as director of strategic alliances, and Rob Kunzler will serve as vice president of marketing.
   A 30-year transportation and supply chain management veteran, Yost most recently built and managed parter programs for logistics software companies Kewill, MercuryGate, and Descartes Systems Group.
   Kunzler, who has 20 years of software-as-a-service (SaaS) marketing and management experience, comes from CSG International, where he led the global marketing department.

   Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. and Marcela E. Donadio have been elected as board directors of Norfolk Southern Corp. (NS).
   Daniels, current president of Purdue University since 2013 and a former governor of Indiana, was appointed to the Compensation Committee and the Governance and Nominating Committee of the Norfolk Southern board. A director and retired partner at Ernst & Young, Donadio was been appointed to the board’s Finance and Risk Management Committee and Audit Committee.

   Central Maine & Quebec Railway (CMQ) has promoted current President and CEO John E. Giles to the role of executive chairman, effective Jan. 1, 2017. Giles will be succeeded in his role as president and CEO by Chief Operating Officer Ryan Ratledge.
   The moves are part of a greater transition plan at CMQ, which was created following Fortress Investment Group subsidiary Railroad Acquisition Holdings LLC’s purchase of the rail assets of the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway. The latter fell into bankruptcy following the deadly derailment of a crude oil train in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, in July 2013.