Mr. Swinburn, age 64, has served as Chief Executive Officer of RailAmerica since August 1, 2004, and as a director of RailAmerica since February 1995. Prior to joining RailAmerica as CEO, Mr. Swinburn was a litigator with the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, in Washington D.C. From 1990 through 1993, Mr. Swinburn served as a consultant to private industry and the government while attending law school. Prior to that time, Mr. Swinburn started up and ran Rollins Field Services, a nationwide hazardous waste clean up firm.

Previously, Mr. Swinburn served in various capacities at the U.S. Department of Transportation, most recently as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs. While with the Department of Transportation he was instrumental in the Department’s successful efforts to deregulate the railroad industry and to revitalize rail freight service in the Northeast. He also served on Amtrak’s Board of Directors and was a member of the management committee of the Alaska Railroad.

Mr. Swinburn received his B.A. degree from Princeton University in 1969, his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1971 and his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993. During six years of service as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, four of those as a pilot, Mr. Swinburn was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross twice and the Air Medal 35 times, flying over 700 combat missions in the Vietnam war.