FreightCar America, Inc. Appoints Terence R. Rogers as Chief Financial Officer
February 18, 2021 at 03:30 am IST
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FreightCar America, Inc. announced that its board of directors has appointed Terence R. (Terry) Rogers as Chief Financial Officer, effective February 15, 2021. Rogers has been serving as Interim Chief Financial Officer since January 2021, leading all the finance activities of the company including business planning, budgeting, forecasting, treasury and information technology. Rogers has nearly 40 years of experience in finance, accounting and operations with a proven track record in strategic planning, corporate restructuring, accounting and investor relations. Prior to joining the company, Rogers was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Roadrunner Transportation Systems from 2017 to 2019. Prior to joining Roadrunner, Rogers served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Heico Companies from 2012 to 2017. Rogers also held various executive management positions at Ryerson, including Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, over a 17-year period.
FreightCar America, Inc. is a diversified manufacturer of railcars and railcar components. The Company designs and manufactures a broad variety of railcar types for transportation of bulk commodities and containerized freight products primarily in North America, including box cars, open top hoppers, covered hoppers, and gondolas along with intermodal and non-intermodal flat cars. The Company offers Versaflood II, open top hoppers in all steel and hybrid configurations (aluminum/stainless steel) with a patented automatic door system; 52 and 66 mill gondolas in multiple cubic capacities; rotary and non-rotary aggregate gondolas; triple hoppers in all steel and hybrid configurations; intermodal flats (including single unit, 2 unit and 3 unit, 53 well cars) and non-intermodal flat cars including 64 - 89 length for general purpose, steel slab (hot and cold), and bulkhead flats. It offers covered hopper railcar product offerings encompass a wide range of cubic foot (CF) capacity designs.