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Directors

  • William A. Furman

    Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors 

    Mr. Furman has served as a member of the Board since 1981 and as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer since 1994. He has served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors since January 2014. Mr. Furman has been associated with the Company and its predecessor companies since 1974. Prior to 1974, Mr. Furman was Group Vice President for the Leasing Group of TransPacific Financial Corporation. Earlier he was General Manager of the Finance Division of FMC Corporation. Mr. Furman served as a Director of Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc., a steel recycling and manufacturing company, from September 1993 to January 2016. As a founder of the Company’s predecessor, Mr. Furman brings executive management and railcar industry experience to the Board as well as historical perspective on the Company’s origins and evolution.

  • Admiral Thomas B. Fargo

    • Independent Director

    Independent Director

    Adm. Fargo has served as a member of the Board since July 2015. Adm. Fargo is a retired military commander with subsequent private sector experience in maritime and other transportation industries. As commander of the U.S. Pacific Command from 2002 until 2005, Admiral Fargo led the world’s largest unified command while directing the joint operations of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force. In this role Admiral Fargo acted as U.S. military representative for collective defense arrangements in the Pacific, ultimately responsible to the President and the Secretary of Defense through the chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. Admiral Fargo’s naval career included six tours in Washington, D.C. and extensive duties in the Pacific, Indian Ocean and Middle East including serving as Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and Commander of the Naval Forces of the Central Command. Admiral Fargo serves as Chairman of Huntington Ingalls Industries, America’s largest military shipbuilder, and on the Boards of Directors for Hawaiian Electric Industries, Matson and United States Automobile Association. Previously, he served on the Boards of Northrop Grumman Corporation and Hawaiian Airlines.

  • Wanda Felton

    • Independent Director
    • Audit Committee Financial Expert

  • Antonio Garza

    • Independent Director

    Independent Director

    Mr.  Garza has served on the Board since 2021. Presently he is Counsel in the Mexico City office of White & Case LLP, one of the world's leading global law firms. Prior to joining White & Case, Mr. Garza served as the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico from 2002 to 2009. Mr. Garza also is currently a director of Kansas City Southern, a publicly-traded rail-based transportation company and is the chairman of its Mexican subsidiary Kansas City Southern de México. He is also on the board for MoneyGram, a publicly-traded global money transfer company. Mr. Garza is a past chairman of the Railroad Commission of Texas, elected to that statewide office in 1998, and serving through 2002. Mr. Garza is a member of the board of trustees of Southern Methodist University. Garza also is a Director to the Americas Society, the US Chamber of Commerce in Mexico and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and COMEXI, the CFR’s Mexican counterpart. From 1994 through 1997 Mr. Garza was the State of Texas Secretary of State, and Senior Policy Advisor to the Governor of Texas from 1994 to 1997. Earlier, Mr. Garza held the position of Cameron County Judge from 1988 to 1994. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the District of Columbia Bar and is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Garza is a past recipient of the Aguila Azteca (Aztec Eagle), the highest honor bestowed by the Mexican government upon a foreign national.

  • James R. Huffines

    • Independent Director
    • Audit Committee Financial Expert

    Independent Director

    Mr. Huffines has served on the Board since 2021. Mr. Huffines currently serves on the board of Susser Bank holding company.  He has more than 35 years of experience in banking and finance. He most recently served as Chief Operating Officer (COO) for subsidiaries of Hilltop Holdings, Inc., a publicly-traded banking and financial services company (HTH).  He also acted as a member of the Hilltop board of directors from the time of the merger in 2012 with the primary subsidiary, Plains Capital Corporation through 2017. Mr. Huffines joined Plains Capital Bank in 2001 as chairman of the Central and South Texas banking markets. He served as President and COO of Plains Capital Corporation from 2010-2015 before assuming the role at Hilltop Holdings. In addition, he served on the Plains Capital Bank board for 15 years as well as serving on the Plains Capital Corporation board.  From 2007 to 2012, Mr. Huffines also served on the board of Energy Future Holdings as an independent director and as the board’s audit committee chairman. Mr. Huffines presided as chairman on the University of Texas (UT) System board of regents for four years during his seven years as a Regent. The UT System board is responsible for nine academic campuses and five different medical schools in the state. He also was on the board of the UTIMCO, a $35 billion endowment fund for higher education in Texas. Mr. Huffines is currently chair of the Southwestern Medical Center board, the largest foundation in the Dallas area, which has a mission of providing funding for research and support at the UT Southwestern Medical School. In 2009, Mr. Huffines was inducted into the UT McCombs School of Business Hall of Fame and in 2011 he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Texas at Austin.

  • Graeme A. Jack

    • Independent Director
    • Audit Committee Financial Expert

    Independent Director

    Mr. Jack has served as a member of the board since October 2006. He is also an independent non-executive director of the trustee manager of Hutchison Port Holdings Trust, COSCO SHIPPING Development Company Limited and Hutchison China Meditech Limited. Mr. Jack is a retired partner of Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP in Hong Kong and brings accounting and financial reporting expertise to the Board as well as extensive experience in international business transactions in Asia generally and China in particular.

  • Patrick J. Ottensmeyer

    • Independent Director
    • Audit Committee Financial Expert

  • Charles J. Swindells

    • Independent Director

    Independent Director

    Mr. Swindells has served as a member of the Board since September 2005. Mr. Swindells is currently engaged as an advisor to Bessemer Trust, an independent provider of investment management and wealth planning to families and individuals. Mr. Swindells served as the Vice Chairman, Western Region of U.S. Trust, Bank of America, Private Wealth Management from August 2005 to January 2009. Mr. Swindells served as United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa from 2001 to 2005. Before becoming Ambassador, Mr. Swindells was Vice Chairman of US Trust Company, N.A.; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Capital Trust Management Corporation; and Managing Director/Founder of Capital Trust Company. He also served as Chairman of World Wide Value Fund, a closed-end investment company listed on the NYSE. Mr. Swindells was one of five members on the Oregon Investment Council overseeing the $20 billion Public Employee Retirement Fund Investment Portfolio and was a member of numerous non-profit boards of trustees, including serving as Chairman of the Board for Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Mr. Swindells serves as a Director of Swift Energy Company, a NYSE listed oil and natural gas company. Mr. Swindells brings financial and global business expertise to the Board.

  • Lorie Tekorius

  • Wendy L. Teramoto

    • Independent Director
    • Audit Committee Financial Expert

    Director

    Ms. Teramoto has served as a member of the Board since June 2009. Ms. Teramoto is a Managing Director at WL Ross & Co. LLC and has been with WL Ross & Co. LLC in various capacities since 2000. Ms. Teramoto is also a director of DSS Holdings GP Limited, a global shipping company. She was previously a director of International Coal Group, Inc. from 2004 to 2011, at which point it was acquired by Arch Coal, Inc. Prior to joining WL Ross & Co. LLC, Ms. Teramoto worked at Rothschild Inc., an investment banking firm. Ms. Teramoto holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Ms. Teramoto brings expertise in analyzing financial issues and experience with manufacturing and other heavy industry companies to the Board

  • Kelly M. Williams, J.D.

    • Independent Director

    Ms. Williams was appointed in 2015 to the Board of Directors of The Greenbrier Companies (GBX). Ms. Williams is a Senior Advisor to GCM Grosvenor with a focus on diversity and corporate social responsibility. Ms. Williams joined GCM Grosvenor in 2014 and served until June 2015 as President of GCM Grosvenor Private Markets, where she was a member of its Management Committee and also a member of its Investment Committee. Prior to joining GCM Grosvenor, Ms. Williams was a Managing Director and the Group Head of the Customized Fund Investment Group (CFIG) of Credit Suisse Group AG from 2000 to 2014. Ms. Williams joined DLJ (acquired by Credit Suisse in 2000) as a Director of CFIG. She was with Prudential Financial from 1993 to 2000. She was an Executive Director with Prudential's private equity group, where she was a founder of CFIG in 1999. Prior to joining Prudential, Ms. Williams was an associate with Milbank, Tweed. Ms. Williams is a member of the board of the Robert Toigo Foundation, Springboard Enterprises, and is the founding board chair of the Private Equity Women Investor Network. She chairs the LP Advisory Council for Sponsors for Educational Opportunity and serves on the advisory board of the Association of Asian American Investment Managers. She is a Senior Advisor to the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA). Ms. Williams has received many awards throughout her career in the financial services industry and was recognized by the National Organization for Women in 2012 with its Women of Power and Influence Award and was named in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 as one of The Most Powerful Women in Finance by American Banker Magazine. She graduated magna cum laude from Union College in 1986 and received her Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law in 1989.

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