Simora named to key new position at Railinc

Railinc Corp. has promoted Robert Simora to Chief Information Officer with responsibility for providing “the vision and leadership for Railinc’s data, product development, and information systems platforms [and] also leading activities around company strategy and innovation.”

“Rob has transformed Railinc’s product development processand consistently demonstrated the type of executive leadership required to advance our IT processes and infrastructure to the next level,” said Allen West, president and CEO of Railinc. “His expertise has helped us create more customer-driven products and applications while lowering Railinc’s cost of operations. That’s a benefit to all our freight rail industry partners.”

Before joining Railinc in 2007 as assistant vice president, product development, Simora was director of IT for Tekelec, a telecommunications company, and also served as an IT manager for General Electric.