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10 BNSF Railway finance leaders
These ten current BNSF Railway finance leaders hold director and general director roles in forecasting and planning, FP&A, budgets, accounting and reporting, and finance audits at BNSF Railway. A reader can learn how finance leaders work at BNSF Railway from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
01—10Emily Priore
LinkedInExperience: Director Accounting - Forecasting & Planning · BNSF Railway
Director Accounting - Forecasting & Planning at BNSF Railway since January 2025, in the finance and accounting department. Emily Priore was Senior Manager - Cost & Profitability at BNSF Railway from 2023 to 2024, Manager Marketing - Planning & Forecasting from 2022 to 2023 and Budget Manager - Engineering from 2021 to 2022.
Jena Marks (Rykhoek)
LinkedInExperience: Director - Budgets · BNSF Railway
Director - Budgets at BNSF Railway since April 2024, in the finance and accounting department. Jena Marks was Sr Manager - Engineering Budgets at BNSF Railway from 2023 to 2024, Sr Manager - Accounting from 2021 to 2023 and Manager - Accounting from 2020 to 2021, and held an assistant manager accounting role there from 2019 to 2020.
JennieAnn Blair
LinkedInExperience: Director Revenue and Finance Audits · BNSF Railway
Director Revenue and Finance Audits at BNSF Railway since June 2026, and also lists Audit Director at BNSF Railway since 2023, in the finance and accounting department. JennieAnn Blair was Senior Manager Finance Department at BNSF Railway from 2021 to 2023 and held information governance and compliance project manager roles there from 2017 to 2021.
Joel Dickerson
LinkedInExperience: Director - Accounting & Reporting · BNSF Railway
Director - Accounting & Reporting at BNSF Railway since May 2026, in the finance and accounting department. Joel Dickerson also held BNSF Railway roles as Senior Manager - Accounting (2023 to 2026), Senior Manager - Fuel Logistics (2020 to 2024) and Sr. Manager - Finance (2002 to 2020), and was Senior Associate at EY.
Jonathan Brimmer
LinkedInExperience: General Director - Forecasting & Planning · BNSF Railway
General Director - Forecasting & Planning at BNSF Railway since January 2025, leading teams for financial planning, reporting and executive decision support, per the profile. Jonathan Brimmer was Senior Director - Forecasting & Planning at BNSF Railway from 2023 to 2024, Senior Director - Accounting & Reporting from 2019 to 2023 and Director - Budgets from 2018 to 2019.
Julia (Slater) Frank, CPA
LinkedInExperience: Director of Finance · BNSF Railway
Director of Finance at BNSF Railway since January 2025, based in Fort Worth. Julia Frank's other BNSF Railway roles include Director - Cost & Profitability (2023 to 2025), Director - Corporate Audit Services (2021 to 2023), Senior Manager - Capital Investment Accounting (2019 to 2021) and Manager - Budgets (2018 to 2019).
Michael Regan, CPA, MBA
LinkedInExperience: General Director Finance · BNSF Railway
General Director Finance at BNSF Railway since January 2025, and also lists Senior Director Finance at BNSF Railway since 2022, based in Fort Worth. Michael Regan worked in Budgets (FP&A) at BNSF Railway from 2019 to 2022, in Strategic Studies from 2017 to 2019 and in Treasury from 2013 to 2017.
Spencer Stuckeman
LinkedInExperience: Director - Finance · BNSF Railway
Director - Finance at BNSF Railway since September 2026, based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Spencer Stuckeman was Senior Manager - Finance at BNSF Railway from 2025 to 2026 and Manager - Finance (Expansion Capital) there from 2023 to 2025, and was Finance Business Partner at Lockheed Martin from 2021 to 2022.
Tim Gosa
LinkedInExperience: Director Of Finance (FP&A) · BNSF Railway
Director Of Finance (FP&A) at BNSF Railway since January 2018, where the profile describes leading development of a web portal that gives internal business partners one place for their financial needs. Tim Gosa was Senior Manager Project Finance at BNSF Railway from 2015 to 2018 and Manager - Engineering Budgets there from 2006 to 2015.
Valerie Thompson, CPA
LinkedInExperience: Director Budgets · BNSF Railway
Director Budgets at BNSF Railway since November 2024, in the finance and accounting department, based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The profile headline gives Valerie Thompson's focus as Director, FP&A - Forecast and Planning, along with technical accounting and SEC reporting.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you forecast and plan financials for a large freight railroad?
- 02What goes into building and tracking budgets for support functions with thousands of employees?
- 03How does a railroad finance team handle accounting and reporting for capital-heavy operations?
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