KCS’ Ottensmeyer Earns USMCOC Award
Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive EditorKansas City Southern (KCS) President and CEO Patrick J. Ottensmeyer has received a United States–Mexico Chamber of Commerce (USMCOC) 2021 Good Neighbor award.
The award recognizes “private- and public-sector leaders who have contributed to the strengthening of U.S.-Mexico bilateral economic and societal relations,” according to the USMCOC, a nonprofit business association, which was constituted in 1973 and chartered in Washington, D.C., to promote business between the United States and Mexico.
Ottensmeyer earned a private-sector award for “his strong advocacy of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement,” the group reported. “His voice and leadership were crucial during the negotiations and in the process of approval by the U.S. Congress, and on the occasion of the recently announced first rail network connecting the U.S., Mexico and Canada through the merger of KCS with Canadian Pacific Railway.”
USMCOC presented five private-sector and two public-sector awards at its Good Neighbors Awards Gala on Oct. 20. In addition to Ottensmeyer, the other four private-sector honorees were:
• Juan R. Luciano, Chairman and CEO, Archer Daniels Midland Company
• Thomas J. Donahue, Advisor and former CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
• Alvaro Luque, President and CEO, Avocados From Mexico
• Francisco Cervantes, former President, Confederation of Industrial Chambers of Mexico
The two public-sector honorees were:
• Thomas J. Vilsack, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
• Víctor Villalobos Arámbula, Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development of Mexico
