Kansas City Southern Appoints Rodrigo Flores Vice President Automotive and Intermodal Sales
August 28 2020 - 1:28PM
Business Wire
Kansas City Southern (KCS) (NYSE: KSU) today announced the
promotion of Rodrigo Flores from vice president automotive to vice
president automotive and intermodal sales effective September 1,
2020. In this expanded role, he is responsible for the automotive
and intermodal business units in the U.S. and Mexico.
“While leading our automotive business unit over the past year,
Rodrigo has demonstrated a strong commitment to serving our
customers and growing our business. Rodrigo adopts a talented
intermodal sales team, and the consolidation of our automotive and
intermodal business units creates a single organization aligned
with our customers’ needs and the KCS cross-border growth
strategy,” said KCS executive vice president and chief marketing
officer Michael J. Naatz. “As a service-oriented leader, I’m very
confident in his ability to work with the team to find innovative
solutions that benefit our customers and KCS.”
Mr. Flores joined the predecessor to KCSM in 1997 as a manager
in external reporting. He joined KCSM’s treasury department as
director in 2000 where he served until 2006 when he accepted a
position as assistant vice president and assistant treasurer at KCS
corporate headquarters in Kansas City. Mr. Flores transitioned from
treasury and into sales and marketing as assistant vice president
of the automotive business unit where he has served since 2016. He
has been vice president automotive since September 2019.
Mr. Flores has over 20 years of transportation experience
complemented by a senior auditor position with Price Waterhouse in
Mexico City prior to joining KCSM. He holds a bachelor in
accounting from the Banking and Commerce School (Escuela Bancaria y
Comercial/ EBC) and studied business administration from the Mexico
Autonomous Institute of Technology (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo
de México - ITAM).
Headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., KCS is a transportation
holding company that has railroad investments in the U.S., Mexico
and Panama. Its primary U.S. holding is The Kansas City Southern
Railway Company, serving the central and south central U.S. Its
international holdings include Kansas City Southern de Mexico, S.A.
de C.V., serving northeastern and central Mexico and the port
cities of Lázaro Cárdenas, Tampico and Veracruz, and a 50 percent
interest in Panama Canal Railway Company, providing ocean-to-ocean
freight and passenger service along the Panama Canal. KCS' North
American rail holdings and strategic alliances with other North
American rail partners are primary components of a unique railway
system, linking the commercial and industrial centers of the U.S.,
Mexico and Canada. More information about KCS can be found at
www.kcsouthern.com
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C. Doniele Carlson, 816-983-1372, dcarlson@kcsouthern.com
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