Kansas City Southern (KSU)

212.80 +0.28 (+0.13%) At close: 4:00PM EST

Kansas City Southern

427 West 12th Street
Kansas City, MO 64105
United States
816-983-1303
http://www.kcsouthern.com

Sector(s): Industrials
Industry: Railroads
Full Time Employees: 7,040

Key Executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year Born
Mr. Patrick J. Ottensmeyer	CEO, Pres & Director	2.8M	1.11M	1958
Mr. Michael W. Upchurch	Exec. VP & CFO	1.14M	N/A	1961
Mr. Jeffrey M. Songer	Exec. VP & COO	1.15M	381.17k	1970
Mr. Michael J. Naatz	Exec. VP & Chief Marketing Officer	967.03k	290.9k	1966
Mr. Brian D. Hancock	Exec. VP & Chief Innovation Officer	1.06M	490.61k	1966
Ms. Suzanne M. Grafton	VP & Chief Accounting Officer	N/A	N/A	1976
Mr. Warren K. Erdman	Exec. VP of Admin. & Corp. Affairs	N/A	N/A	1959
Ms. Ashley A. Thorne	VP of Investor Relations	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Adam J. Godderz	Sr. VP, Chief Legal Officer & Corp. Sec.	N/A	N/A	1975
Mr. Rodrigo Flores Leon	VP of Sales & Marketing Automotive	N/A	N/A	N/A

Amounts are as of December 31, 2019 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay is salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in USD.

Description

Kansas City Southern, a transportation holding company, provides domestic and international rail transportation services in North America. The company serves a ten-state region in the midwest and southeast regions of the United States and has the shortest north/south rail route between Kansas City, Missouri, and ports along the Gulf of Mexico in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. It operates a commercial corridor of the Mexican railroad system and has its direct rail passageway between Mexico City and Laredo, Texas. The company provides rail access to the United States and Mexico border crossing at Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas; and controls and operates the southern half of the rail bridge at Laredo, Texas, as well as the northern half of this bridge. Kansas City Southern also provides rail access to the port of Lazaro Cardenas on the Pacific Ocean; and owns a 157-mile rail line extending from Laredo, Texas to the port city of Corpus Christi, Texas. Its rail network comprises approximately 6,700 route miles extending from the Midwest and Southeast portions of the United States south into Mexico. The company serves the chemical and petroleum, industrial and consumer products, agriculture and minerals, energy, intermodal, and automotive markets. Kansas City Southern was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri.

Corporate Governance

Kansas City Southern’s ISS Governance QualityScore as of December 1, 2020 is 2. The pillar scores are Audit: 1; Board: 4; Shareholder Rights: 2; Compensation: 4.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while a 10 indicates higher governance risk.