News & Reviews News Wire Norfolk Southern board of directors elects two new members: Huffard and Jones NEWSWIRE

Norfolk Southern board of directors elects two new members: Huffard and Jones NEWSWIRE

By Angela Cotey | February 24, 2020

| Last updated on November 3, 2020

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NORFOLK, Va. — John C. “Jack” Huffard Jr. and Christopher T. Jones have been elected directors of Norfolk Southern Corporation, effective Feb. 21, 2020, Chairman, President and CEO James A. Squires said today.

Huffard, 52, brings significant technology and business operations expertise to the board. He is a co-founder of Tenable Network Security Inc. and Tenable Holdings Inc., a cybersecurity software company. Huffard served as president and chief operating officer and as a director of Tenable Network Security from 2002 to 2018, where he was responsible for driving Tenable’s global corporate strategy and business operations and was instrumental in the venture funding and IPO process. From 2018 to 2019, Huffard focused exclusively on business operations as chief operating officer of Tenable Holdings. Huffard has been a director of Tenable Holdings since 2016.

Jones, 55, brings extensive change management and cultural transformation experience to the board. He served as corporate vice president and president of the technology services sector of Northrop Grumman Corporation, a global aerospace and defense technology company, from January 2013 through December 2019. Previously, he served as vice president and general manager of Northrop Grumman’s integrated logistics and modernization division from 2010 through 2012. Jones was a maintenance officer in the Connecticut Air National Guard from 1997 to 2011.

“We are excited to welcome Chris and Jack to the board, as both of them bring significant operational and technology understanding to Norfolk Southern,” Squires said. “Their collective experiences and perspectives in strategic planning and change management in large organizations will be invaluable as we continue to transform Norfolk Southern.”

Jones has been appointed to the Audit and Governance and Nominating committees and Huffard has been appointed to the Compensation and Finance and Risk Management committees of the Norfolk Southern board.

— A Norfolk Southern news release. Feb. 24, 2020.

3 thoughts on “Norfolk Southern board of directors elects two new members: Huffard and Jones NEWSWIRE

  1. This is just DUMB youre laying off workers closing facilities and you hire 2 more pencil pushers , Norfolk management run amuck , you need people in the trenches , not sitting in their glass incased offices looking out and saying lets close this place lay off these people so I can keep my job that’s not really important simple put!

  2. Tenable took an open source tool they developed (Nessus) and converted it to closed source.

    Sold it with the lucrative service agreements and plug ins and went public in 2018.

    Huffard must have bought a lot of NS stock with his IPO money.

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