PATRICK J. OTTENSMEYER

Corporate Board Profile

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GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC

Filing Date	Source Excerpt
2023-11-13	Mr. Ottensmeyer has served as a member of the Board since June 2023. Prior to his service on the board, he was President and CEO of Kansas City Southern (KCS), a Class I railroad, from 2015 to 2023 until the completion of the merger creating Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC). For more than a decade, Mr. Ottensmeyer held various senior executive positions at KCS, including: President of KCS from March 2015 through April 2023; Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing of KCS from October 2008 through March 2015; Chief Executive Officer of The Kansas City Southern Railway Company (KCSR), a wholly-owned subsidiary of KCS, from July 2016 through April 2023; and President of KCSR from March 2015 through April 2023. He also has a very extensive understanding of financial matters, which helped him lead KCS’s finance department during his time as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 2006 to 2008. Mr. Ottensmeyer is a rail industry leader, with experience as U.S. Chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s U.S.-Mexico Economic Council (USMXECO), Co-Chair of the Brookings Institute USMCA Initiative, and Chair of the Truman Library Institute. He received the NARS Edward R. Hamberger Lifetime Achievement Award (2023), Ingram’s Executive of the Year Award (2022), Railway Age’s Co-Railroaders of the Year Award (2022), Railway Age Railroader of the Year (2020), and Progressive Railroading’s Railroad Innovator Award (2019). He is also a member of the Board of Watco LLC. He received his Bachelors in Science in Finance from Indiana University in 1979.

Filing Date

Source Excerpt

2023-11-13

Mr. Ottensmeyer has served as a member of the Board since June 2023. Prior to his service on the board, he was President and CEO of Kansas City Southern (KCS), a Class I railroad, from 2015 to 2023 until the completion of the merger creating Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC). For more than a decade, Mr. Ottensmeyer held various senior executive positions at KCS, including: President of KCS from March 2015 through April 2023; Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing of KCS from October 2008 through March 2015; Chief Executive Officer of The Kansas City Southern Railway Company (KCSR), a wholly-owned subsidiary of KCS, from July 2016 through April 2023; and President of KCSR from March 2015 through April 2023. He also has a very extensive understanding of financial matters, which helped him lead KCS’s finance department during his time as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 2006 to 2008. Mr. Ottensmeyer is a rail industry leader, with experience as U.S. Chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s U.S.-Mexico Economic Council (USMXECO), Co-Chair of the Brookings Institute USMCA Initiative, and Chair of the Truman Library Institute. He received the NARS Edward R. Hamberger Lifetime Achievement Award (2023), Ingram’s Executive of the Year Award (2022), Railway Age’s Co-Railroaders of the Year Award (2022), Railway Age Railroader of the Year (2020), and Progressive Railroading’s Railroad Innovator Award (2019). He is also a member of the Board of Watco LLC. He received his Bachelors in Science in Finance from Indiana University in 1979.

Data sourced from SEC filings. Last updated: 2026-02-03