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Anthony Coscia
(Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Product Development, Marketing & Customer
Service Committee)
Anthony Coscia was nominated by President Barack Obama as a Director of the Amtrak Board of Directors and
was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in June 2010. Mr. Coscia was elected Chairman of the Board in March 2013.
He is Chairman of United Water, Inc. and an Independent Director at Sun Bancorp, Inc. and Sun National Bank.
Mr. Coscia also served as Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Port Authority of New York and New
Jersey from 2003 through June 2011. As Chairman of the Port Authority, Mr. Coscia had broad oversight
responsibility in connection with the agency's varied transportation businesses and $6.7 billion annual budget.
From February 1992 to March 2003, Mr. Coscia served as Chairman of the New Jersey Economic Development
Authority (NJEDA). Mr. Coscia is a Partner at Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP. He has specific
experience in the area of redevelopment finance and has worked extensively on corporate governance issues.
He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (B.S.F.S., 1981), and he
received his law degree from Rutgers University School of Law (J.D., 1984).
Joseph Boardman (President & CEO)
Appointed President and Chief Executive Officer by Amtrak’s Board of Directors, effective in November 2008,
Mr. Boardman served as the Administrator of the U.S. Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) prior to that and
was a member of the Amtrak Board of Directors. Prior to joining the FRA, Mr. Boardman served as the
Commissioner of the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT). He has served in the
transportation industry for over thirty years with experience in city, county, state, and federal government. In
addition, he owned his own transportation management company. He is a former chairman of both the
Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the American Association of State
Highway and Transportation Officials’ (AASHTO) Standing Committee on Rail Transportation (SCORT). Mr.
Boardman is a native of New York State. He served in the United States Air Force in Vietnam in 1968-1969. He
received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture Economics from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and a
Master of Science Degree in Management Science from the State University of New York at Binghamton.
Thomas Carper (Chairman of the Security & Safety Committee)
Thomas Carper was nominated by President Barack Obama for a second term as a Director of the Amtrak Board
of Directors and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in August 2013. He was initially nominated by President
George W. Bush in 2008 for his first term on the Board. In 2009, Mr. Carper was elected Chairman of the Board
where he served until March 2013. He was appointed by the Amtrak Board of Directors to serve on the Amtrak
Mayors’ Advisory Council and served as its Chair from 2000 to 2001. Mr. Carper was a small business owner
from Macomb, Ill., and served as Mayor of Macomb from 1991 to 2003. In 2003 he was named regional
director of the West Central Region for Opportunity Returns by the Illinois governor. He retired from this
position in 2010. Mr. Carper received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Western Illinois University in 1982. He
served in the U.S. Army from 1967 to 1970 in Thailand and Vietnam.
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