Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> September 23, 2002
ROBERT W. ANESTIS has been, since January 1, 1999, Chairman,
President and Chief Executive Officer of Florida East Coast
Industries, Inc., a holding company based in St. Augustine,
Florida, with interests in railroad, real estate and telecom
businesses. Mr. Anestis has been active in the railroad industry
for more than 20 years as an attorney, an executive, a financial
advisor and a principal. From 1982 to 1986, he served as
Executive Vice President and Chief Planning and Financial Officer
and then as President of Guilford Transportation Industries,
Inc., and as Director of Guilford and its subsidiary railroads,
Maine Central, Boston and Maine and Delaware and Hudson. From
1986 through 1998, Mr. Anestis was President of Anestis &
Company, a Westport, Connecticut-based investment banking and
financial advisory firm. Mr. Anestis has served on the boards of
a number of companies in which he holds investment positions,
including Champion Enterprises, Inc., Vector Distributors, Inc.,
and CHB Capital Partners, LP. He is also a member of the Yale
University Development Board. Mr. Anestis received his BA degree
from Yale University in 1967 and his MBA and JD degrees from
Harvard University in 1971. He served as a Captain in the U.S.
Air Force in 1973 and 1974. From 1971 to 1982, he practiced law
with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (becoming
a partner in 1977), with a practice centered on acquisitions and
mergers. Profile
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Mr. Anestis: Florida East Coast Industries is a holding company
that owns the Florida East Coast Railway, which
