Railcar builder CEO Tekorius appointed to Federal Reserve branch

Executive has worked at Greenbrier for 30 years

Lorie Tekorius. (Photo: The Greenbrier Companies and Jim Allen/FreightWaves)

Railcar builder The Greenbrier Cos. said Chief Executive Lorie Tekorius has been appointed as a board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Portland, Oregon, branch.

Tekorius has served as CEO of Portland-based Greenbrier (NYSE: GBX) since 2022.

Tekorius is one of two directors on the seven-member board appointed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. There is one federal appointee vacancy. The remaining four members are appointed by the San Francisco Fed’s Board of Directors.

A graduate of Texas A&M, Tekorius joined Greenbrier in 1995 and served in various finance and operation leadership roles until her promotion to president and chief operating officer in 2019 and CEO in 2022. She joined the company’s board of directors in 2022. 

Portland is part of the Federal Reserve’s 12th, and largest, District, incorporating nine states, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. It provides regional, business and community outreach, national incident response, application development, and customer service to financial institutions located in the area.

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Stuart Chirls is a journalist who has covered the full breadth of railroads, intermodal, container shipping, ports, supply chain and logistics for Railway Age, the Journal of Commerce and IANA. He has also staffed at S&P, McGraw-Hill, United Business Media, Advance Media, Tribune Co., The New York Times Co., and worked in supply chain with BASF, the world's largest chemical producer. Reach him at stuartchirls@firecrown.com.