Keith Creel
chief Executive of Canadian Pacific Kansas City
Keith Creel (born 1968) is an American-Canadian business executive, and is the president and chief executive officer of Canadian Pacific Kansas City.
Earlier career
Creel was born in Alabama. He served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army and took part in the Gulf War. He took a degree in marketing at Jacksonville State University. Upon graduation in 1992 he joined Burlington Northern Railroad as an operations manager, at first in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1996 he joined the Illinois Central Railroad, which later merged with Canadian National Railway (CN), and in 1999 became general manager of the Michigan Zone within the Midwest Division of Grand Trunk Western (GTW). He moved to Canada in 2002 as vice president of CN's Prairie Division in Winnipeg, and successively took the posts of senior VP of the western region, senior VP of the eastern region, executive VP (2007), and Chief Operating Officer (2010). He merged GTW and two other railroads within CN, and pursued a system of "precision railroading" using fewer trains but ensuring that they run fast and on time.
Canadian Pacific
Creel moved to Canadian Pacific Railway, as President and Chief Operating Officer, in early 2013. He received the Progressive Railroading Railroad Innovator Award for 2014, in recognition of outstanding achievements in the rail industry.
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