Pacific Harbor Line (PHL), an affiliate of Anacostia & Pacific Company, Inc., has announced that M. D. "Mike" Stolzman, vice president, has been promoted to president, succeeding Andrew C. Fox, who has been promoted to managing director, a newly created position. Stolzman in turn has been succeeded by Otis Cliatt.
In his new role, Stolzman will be responsible for the general direction of all aspects of the company's business relating to transportation, engineering, marketing, personnel, administration, safety and mechanical efforts.
Stolzman joined PHL in 2005 as general superintendent and has been vice president for the past four years. His prior railroad career included management positions with Chicago & North Western and Union Pacific railroads as well as CANAC, at one time the industrial switching arm of Canadian National Railway Co. Before that, he was a career officer in the U.S. Army.
He has a B.S. in Zoology from Texas State University and an M.S. in Quantitative Analysis from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
Fox, who has been president since the founding of PHL in 1997, now will focus on strategic planning, major external relations, contractual and legal affairs of the company. Prior to PHL, he spent 23 years in various operating, finance and executive department positions with Southern Pacific. Fox has a B.S. degree in civil engineering and an MBA, both from Northwestern University.
Cliatt joins PHL with 17 years of railroad experience, including operating department positions at Union Pacific and regional vice president of CANAC. He was most recently with the CMC Railroad unit of Babcock & Brown. Prior to his railroad career, he served in the U.S. Army. Cliatt has a B.S. in Business Economics and a minor in Labor Relations from Florida A&M University.