Henry Posner III | |
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Born | 1954 or 1955 (age 68–69)[1] |
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Years active | 1975‒[2][3] |
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Spouse | Anne Molloy[4] |
Children | 3[5] |
Henry Posner III is an American transport executive and investor working in the field of rail transport.
Posner received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Princeton University in 1977, and received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in finance from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[6][7]
Posner's grandfather Henry Posner Sr. was born in Warsaw, Poland and emigrated to the United States in c.1905,[8] aged seventeen.[9] Posner's parents Henry Posner Jr. and Helen MacMurdo Posner were married in 1953.[10] As of 2015[update], Posner III continued to live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[11]
From 1998 onwards, Posner served as a trustee of the Winchester Thurston School, additionally serving as president for four years.[4]
In May 2014, Posner spoke at the International Transport Forum at the need for cooperation as well as competition within rail transport in Europe.[12]
Since 2017, Posner has been an adjunct instructor at Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), teaching the course "The American Railroad-Decline and Renaissance in the Era of Deregulation".[7] In 2021 Posner hired two students from the course to facilitate work on a battery-operated Vivarail D-Train imported from the United Kingdom for the "Pop-up Metro" project.[13]
In February 2022, Posner briefly returned to front line service, crewing and interpreting on board a refugee rescue train operated by RDC Deutschland between Frankfurt (Oder) station and Hannover Messe station in Germany, following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[6][14]
In mid-2022 the Posner Foundation renewed its yearly grant funding to Operation Lifesaver for work towards increasing safety at level crossings.[15]