2 Named to Amtrak Board of Directors

President Barack Obama will nominate Derek Kan and re-nominate Anthony Coscia to serve on the board of directors of Amtrak.

Kan is director of strategy at Genapsys who previously he served as a management consultant at Bain & Co. and as an adviser at Elliott Management.

He was a policy adviser to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell from Kentucky, the chief economist for the Senate Republican Policy Committee and presidential management fellow at the White House Office of Management and Budget.

Coscia has sat on the Amtrak board since June 2010. He is a partner at Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf LLP and between 2003 and 2011 was chairman of the board of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

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