Matt Rose

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Matthew Rose was elected chairman of BNSF Railway on March 21, 2002. He was made President and Chief Executive Officer on December 7, 2000. In June of 1999, he was made President and Chief Operating Officer, responsible for all operations and marketing activities. He had been senior vice president and chief operations officer since August 1997, and he was responsible for coordinating transportation, maintenance, quality, purchasing, labor relations and information services activities. From May 1996 to August 1997, Rose served as senior vice president, Merchandise Business Unit. He joined Burlington Northern Railroad (BN) in 1993, and was named vice president, Vehicles and Machinery, in June 1994. In January 1995, he was named vice president, Southern Region Field Marketing, for the Merchandise Business Group. He was appointed vice president, Chemicals, following the merger of Burlington Northern Inc. and Santa Fe Pacific Corporation in September 1995. Before joining BN, Rose was vice president, Transportation, for Triple Crown Services (a Norfolk Southern subsidiary) where he had functional responsibility for all facets of the truck/rail operation. Prior to that, he held various positions with Schneider National and International Utilities, a trucking conglomerate. He began his railroad career in 1981 as a corporate management trainee with Missouri Pacific Railroad and was appointed an assistant trainmaster.