What Happened?
Yonkers, NY-based Kawasaki Rail Car has Promoted Laura Alemzadeh as General Counsel
About the Company
Kawasaki has a reputation for delivering superior products, reliably and cost effectively. We live up to that reputation every day - since we built our first locomotive in Japan in 1912, and now with the industry's finest high-speed trains widely used across the globe and advanced bi-level commuter cars and subway trains popular throughout the U.S. For several decades, Kawasaki Rail Car (KRC) has operated its U.S. corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility in Yonkers, NY. It's where our U.S. rail transit business began, with the inaugural order of 95 subway cars for the Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) system between New York and New Jersey. The Yonkers plant is equipped for complete fabrication, assembly, rehabilitation and function testing of all types of passenger rail cars. In 2001, we were proud to expand our U.S. operations with a state-of-the-art rail car shell manufacturing facility in Lincoln, Nebraska - the first in the U.S. capable of building different types of rail cars. Expansion to Lincoln allows us to increase our production and respond immediately to customer needs. Our partners benefit from greater production flexibility and shorter lead times. With U.S. capabilities beyond any other manufacturer, Kawasaki Rail Car (KRC) is uniquely poised to design, build and deliver 100% American-made rail cars to this country's emerging mass transportation market now and well into the future.
About the Person
Laura Alemzadeh is the General Counsel of Kawasaki Rail Car Inc., a global transportation leader and manufacturer of rail cars in US, located in Westchester County, and City of Yonkers, New York. Kawasaki has been an innovative rail car builder providing rail cars to all the major transit authorities in the US and particularly, the North East Corridor. Over the past twenty five years, Kawasaki has produce and delivered more than 2500 rail cars. Kawasaki recently received an order to build cars for Long Island Rail Road, and is also working on manufacturing rail cars for nation’s capital, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority . Laura oversees and manages all of Kawasaki’ legal, operation, and corporate communication needs of the company, and handles a variety of matters, including contract negotiation, transactional matters, litigation and governmental affairs. Laura is a member of Kawasaki’s management team and compliance committee and works closely with the company’s senior executives and the CEO in planning and execution of business strategy. Recognized as an accomplished professional both in the business and legal industry, Laura is the recipient of the 2014 Above the Bar Award for Leading In House Counsel by Westchester County Bar Association, Westchester Woman Bar Association and Pace Law School. In 2013, she received Westchester’s Top Executive Woman in Business Award and was also a nominated for Crain’s Top 40 under 40. Laura is currently featured in Generation Yonker’s Campaign, promoting the economic growth and vitality of Yonkers, Westchester.
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