E. Hunter Harrison

E. Hunter Harrison (born 1944) is a Tennessee-born railroader who currently is the president and Chief Executive Officer of Canadian National Railway (CN).

Life

Born in Tennessee, he began as a carman-oiler at the Frisco Railroad in Memphis, Tennessee in 1964, [cite web |work=Canadian National Railway Co. |url=http://www.canadianbusiness.com/rankings/investor500/list.jsp?pageID=companyProfile&profile=5470&year=2006&type=profile |accessdate=2006-11-14 |title=Investor 500] he furthered his learning in the railroad business first as being upgraded as an operator for that company and, later, with Burlington Northern Railroad (BN) as they bought Frisco's company in 1980. Before leaving BN, he became the company's vice-president for transportation and services design. [cite web |title=E. Hunter Harrison | work=CBR.ca | url=http://www.cbr.ca/PersonProfile.aspx?PersonID=6898 | accessdate=2006-11-14 ]

First promoted to the role of president of CN on December 13, 2002, he was later promoted to CN's CEO position on January 1, 2003. He had previously served as president of Illinois Central Railroad from 1993 until that railroad's acquisition by CN in 1998; at that time, he was named CN's executive vice president and chief operating officer. Industry trade journal "Railway Age" named Harrison its Railroader of the Year for 2002. [Canadian National Railway (December 13 2002), " [http://www.cn.ca/about/media/news_releases/archive/en_News20021213a.shtml CN names E. Hunter Harrison president and chief executive officer] ". Retrieved February 10 2006]

On November 30 2006, CN's Board of Directors voted to extend Harrison's contract as CEO for one year, setting the new employment contract expiration date as December 31 2009. [cite press release| publisher=Canadian National Railway| url=http://www.cn.ca/about/media/news_releases/2006/4th_quarter/en_News20061130.shtml| title=CN Board of Directors approves one-year contract extension for company’s president and chief executive officer| date=2006-11-30| accessdate=2006-12-11| ]

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