Directors

Charles T. Foskett

RailRunner's President and CEO is Charles Foskett, an Arlington, MA resident who has over 30 years experience in founding and managing successful start-ups. As co-founder in 1970, and later for nine years as President of Digilab Inc, Mr. Foskett built and expanded this developer of analytic instrumentation into a worldwide business. Digilab still operates today as major revenue-producing instrumentation group of Bio-Rad Laboratories.

In 1983 Mr. Foskett co-founded Natural MicroSystems, a telecommunications equipment company, which is today a publicly listed NASDAQ company (NMSS) with a revenue rate of $160 million and a market cap which has surpassed $2 billion.

Mr. Foskett, who holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Physics, also serves on the boards of private high-tech companies in the New England area and invests in and advises emerging businesses. Mr. Foskett has been an elected Town Meeting member in Arlington, MA for 25 years, and is chairman of Arlington's Capital Planning Committee and vice-chairman of its Finance Committee. Mr. Foskett also serves on the Board of the Massachusetts Association of Town Finance Committees.

Jonathan Fleming

Since 1996 Mr. Fleming as been the General Partner of Oxford Bioscience Partners, a Boston Massachusetts-based venture capital fund specializing in health-care and biotechnology ventures. From 1985 through 1998 Mr. Fleming was a partner or general partner of TVM Techno Venture Management and MVP Ventures, firms involved in supporting and investing in technology ventures in healthcare, medical devices and information technology.

From 1984 to 1985 Mr. Fleming was a fellow of the Robert Bosch Foundation in Germany, and from 1982 to 1984 he served on New Jersey Governor's Commission on Science and Technology.

Mr. Fleming serves on numerous boards of both public and private companies. Mr. Fleming holds a BA from the University of California - Berkeley, and an M.P.A. in Industrial Economics from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School.

Darius Gaskins

Darius W. Gaskins, Jr. is a founding partner of Norbridge, Inc., a Concord, MA management consulting firm specializing in transportation and logistics He has had a distinguished career in industry, government, and academia:

  • Visiting Professor, Center for Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1989 to 1991
  • President and Chief Executive Officer, Burlington Northern Railroad, 1985 to 1989; Senior Vice President, Marketing and Sales, Burlington Northern Railroad, 1982 to 1985
  • Senior Vice President, Natomas North America, 1981 to 1982
  • Chairman, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1980 to 1981
  • Deputy Assistant Secretary, Policy Analysis, Department of Energy, 1978 to 1979
  • Director, Office of Economic Analysis, Civil Aeronautics Board, 1977 to 1978
  • Director, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission, 1976 to 1977
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, 1975 to 1976 and 1970 to 1973
  • Economic Advisor, House Ad Hoc Committee on the Outer Continental Shelf, 1975
  • Director, Office of Outer Continental Shelf, Department of the Interior, 1975; Acting Director, Office of Minerals Policy Department, Department of the Interior, 1974; Assistant Director, Economics, Office of Policy Analysis, Department of the Interior, 1973
  • Instructor (Captain, USAF), Aerospace Research Pilots School, 1963 to 1967

Mr. Gaskins holds a PhD in economics and Masters in Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a B.S. from the United States Military Academy (distinguished graduate).

He is currently on the Board of Directors for the following companies: Anacomp, Inc., Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc., Northwestern Steel and Wire Company, Sapient Corporation, UNR Industries, Inc.; and is past Director of Burlington Northern Inc., Leaseway Transportation Corporation, and MidSouth Corporation. Mr. Gaskins is also Chairman of Resources for the Future, a non-profit environmental policy group based in Washington, DC.

Dean Wise

Mr. Wise, a Partner at Norbridge, Inc. a Concord, MA management consulting firm where he specializes in the transportation and logistics services industries. His professional focus includes: Strategic planning and organizational development for transportation carriers, logistics services companies, and industry suppliers; merger/acquisition analyses for companies seeking to diversify into new transportation modes and services or new geographic areas; and financial modeling and analysis of performance drivers, key processes, and competitive economics to focus strategy development and program management initiatives.

Mr. Wise is a frequent speaker before a wide range of industry audiences, including the Council of Logistics Management, National Industrial Transportation League, and Intermodal Association of North America. He has also published numerous articles on carrier strategies, logistics services, and transportation equipment and facility issues, appearing in such periodicals as Traffic World, Logistics Management, and Progressive Railroading.

Before joining Norbridge, Mr. Wise was a Vice President at Mercer Management Consulting, responsible for its North American surface transportation consulting practice, providing consulting services to transportation carriers, logistics companies, equipment manufacturers and lessors, information service providers, and financial institutions.

Prior to Mercer and its predecessor, Temple, Barker & Sloane, Inc., he held several marketing management positions at Consolidated Rail Corporation and worked in service planning at Southern Pacific Transportation Company. He presently serves on the Boards of Directors of Emons Transportation Group, Inc., RailRunner, N.A., and Vehiclocity.com.

Mr. Wise received an A.B. from Colgate University and a Masters from Harvard University.