Principal
Mr. Flynn is the founder and president of NELS and has over 40 years of continuous experience in the railroad industry and is a subject-matter expert in rail transportation. He has unique industry experience and deep knowledge of operations, service planning and supply chain dynamics related to the secure and efficient movement of rail shipments in North America.
Under Flynn’s leadership, NELS developed a proprietary service monitoring system called “Lane Manager” that enables deep diagnostics of service performance over specific rail corridors. Utilizing this proprietary software as a foundational component, NELS integrated ESRI GIS capabilities and GPS railcar tracking data to provide both real-time monitoring and highly granular data analysis of rail freight network performance, infrastructure attributes and capacity.
Prior to NELS, Mr. Flynn served as Chief Commercial Officer of IntelliTrans LLC, one of the nation’s largest rail 3PL’s and a wholly-owned subsidiary of TransCore. Flynn subsequently served in an expanded role as Transcore’s Vice President – Account Management, responsible for delivery of motor carrier, rail and barge systems-based logistics solutions. Prior to TransCore, Flynn spend nearly five years at Railinc, a subsidiary of the Association of American Railroads (AAR), as a consultant and later as Asst. Vice President leading Railinc’s Marketing, Sales Customer Support and Product Development.
Mr. Flynn’s Class I rail carrier experience spans 32 years, including two years as a management consultant at CSX Transportation preceded by 29 years at Conrail and its predecessor, Penn Central. Flynn’s rail experience at Conrail included eight years of on-the-ground field operations experience and 21 years in management roles at Conrail’s Philadelphia headquarters. Flynn served as Assistant to the President during Conrail’s IPO, which was the largest, such transaction at its time. Flynn also led development of rail service planning programs that became design templates for systems in place today at Class I rail carriers.
Mr. Flynn holds a B.B.A. (Business and Finance), cum laude from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and has attended a variety of university-based management development programs and professional certification programs.