Randy Meyer

Background

About Randy Meyer

I am currently the Principal Consultant at Third Rail Group, Inc. Third Rail Group provides consulting services in four main areas related primarily to transportation: Innovation & Technology, Business Development, Sales and Marketing and Logistics and Transportation Operations. I am responsible for providing consulting services in rail transportation, terminal networks, commercial negotiations, business development and logistics information systems. To August 2022, I was the VP of Transportation for Nauticol Energy having begun work as a consultant for Nauticol in November 2018. I was responsible for all the transportation, logistics and carrier and terminal long-term contract negotiations to support the building of a $3.5B methanol facility. I previously served as Vice President Corporate Development and Logistics for Altex Energy Ltd for 5 years. I was responsible for: commercial negotiations, rail carrier interface, the development of all facilities, processes, information systems for the corporation and service delivery for Altex customers, overseeing sales and marketing, the development of new crude oil rail loading and unloading terminals in Canada and the US and the logistics systems and technology to manage them. Prior to this, I spent 35 years with CN (Canadian National Railway), most recently serving as Senior Manager of Business Development. I developed CN's PipelineOnRail (crude-by-rail) initiative and headed up CN's long-term business development strategy primarily relating to the petroleum industry in Western Canada. The PipelineOnRail project became a significant business representing 10's of millions of dollars per year in new business to CN. I started my career in CN Operations in Toronto and moved to CN headquarters in Montreal, where I spent 12 years holding increasingly responsible positions in Project Management and Systems Development in CN's Information Systems and Marketing Systems departments. From there, I moved to Calgary spent 17 years in increasingly responsible positions in Service Management, Market Management, Account Management and Director of Sales in various business sectors including petroleum and chemicals, coal, fertilizers, metals, sulphur and other industrial products.