Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> January 26, 2004

ROBERT WELDING – FEDERAL SIGNAL CORPORATION (FSS)

ROBERT D. WELDING is President and Chief Executive Officer of Federal Signal Corporation. In addition, Mr. Welding is a member of the Board of Directors of Federal Signal Corporation. Prior to joining Federal Signal, Mr. Welding was Group President of the BorgWarner Driveline Group and Executive Vice President of BorgWarner Inc. He also served as President and General Manager of BorgWarner Transmissions Systems, a unit of the Driveline Group. In his 20 years at BorgWarner, Mr. Welding held a variety of positions of elevating responsibility in operations and product engineering management. Prior to that, he worked for Volkswagen of America and General Motors in product engineering capacities. Mr. Welding earned a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nebraska in 1970 and an MBA from the University of Michigan in 1984. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with an overview of Federal Signal and slice your

business segments based on how you report?

Mr. Welding: Our 2003 revenue was about $1.2 billion, and we are

organized