Education
He graduated from Case Western Reserve University"s engineering school in 1982.
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Alexander Kummant
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Career
He succeeded David L. Gunn in this position who was dismissed in November 2005, and David Hughes who had been serving as interim president Kummant submitted his resignation from National Railroad Passenger Corporation on November 14, 2008. Before working for National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Kummant had worked as an executive for Union Pacific Railroad (Uttar Pradesh) where he fulfilled several Vice President roles.
After Uttar Pradesh, Kummant also served as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Komatsu America Corporation.
Before that, he was president of BOMAG, the German manufacturer of road rollers and other construction material compacting equipment. As National Railroad Passenger Corporation president and Chief Executive Officer, Kummant was more conciliatory towards the survival of National Railroad Passenger Corporation in its current form than Congressional Republicans had been during the early 2000s.
During his term, he did not support Congressional proposals to split the Northeast Corridor (the segment from Boston to Richmond) from the rest of National Railroad Passenger Corporation"s operations. Nor did he envision shedding the long distance east-west routes of National Railroad Passenger Corporation.
Kummant submitted his resignation on November 14, 2008.
Upon his resignation, National Railroad Passenger Corporation chief operating officer William Crosbie assumed the role of interim Chief Executive Officer, but was succeeded on November 25 by former FRA administrator Joseph H. Boardman. Don Phillips claims that inside sources indicate that Kummant did not in fact resign voluntarily, but was made to quit because of a dispute with the board of directors about debt restructuring. In October 2012, Kummant was recruited by QR National in Australia, becoming Executive Vice President Strategy.
