Little Falls, New Jersey (11 February 2009) – Philippe Citroën, Managing Director of Systra SA has appointed Diego Diaz as SYSTRA USA’s (SYSTRA’s) new President & CEO, effective immediately. “I am very excited to have been selected to lead SYSTRA,” said Diaz. “I look forward to contributing, with such a strong planning and engineering team, to upcoming projects launched by high‐speed rail and transit authorities in the United States.”
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Mr. Diaz recently joined SYSTRA from Bombardier Transportation, where he held several leadership positions in the management teams for Light Rail and Services divisions. Following the merger of AdTranz and Bombardier in 2001, Mr. Diaz was instrumental in integrating the two companies, and successfully reshaping and positioning the Light Rail division. In addition, as a former director of marketing & business development for Bombardier, Mr. Diaz spearheaded efforts that led to significant contracts in new markets. Mr. Diaz began his career as an aeronautical engineer, and he holds a Master of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) as well as a Master of Business Administration degree from the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management.
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SYSTRA specializes in all transportation systems and associated facilities, and with offices from coast to coast, SYSTRA has more than 20 years of specialized experience with transportation agencies nationwide. In addition, through our proprietary RAILSIM® Simulation Software System, SYSTRA provides essential rail network planning, design and analysis tools, and services to clients worldwide.
SYSTRA is part of the SYSTRA Group. Affiliated with the Paris Metro (RATP) and the French National Railroad (SNCF), the SYSTRA Group is the world’s largest consultancy devoted exclusively to public transportation, which includes SYSTRA, SA (Paris), the MVA Group (London and Hong Kong), Canarail (Montreal), and Sotec Engineers and employs over 2,500 professionals. Operating from 60 offices on six continents, SYSTRA Group clients operate many of the largest and most complex public transportation and railway systems in the world. This world class expertise is available through SYSTRA to assist U.S. agencies with the complex engineering and operations issues facing our transit systems today.