David L. Gunn

David L. Gunn ( born June 21, 1937) is an American manager. He has worked in leading functions of several transport authorities and railway companies from 2002 to 2005, President and CEO of the state railway company Amtrak.

David Gunn studied until 1959 at Harvard College. Subsequently he served until 1962 in the U.S. Navy Reserve. At the Harvard Graduate School of Business in 1964 he received a Masters in Business Administration.

David Gunn then worked from 1964 at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. In 1967, he joined the New York Central Railroad, but left this in 1968 in the wake of the merger of NYC with the Pennsylvania Railroad already again. In the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad, he was then up to 1974 Assistant Vice - President. He moved to Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ( MBTA ) and worked as Director of Commuter Rail and in 1975 as Director of Operations. As General Manager and Chief Operations Officer, he worked from 1979 at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority ( SEPTA ). In 1984, Gunn the position of President of the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority ( MTA). Here was his biggest task is to bring the desolate New York subway back on track. Through a multi-billion investment program the largest deficits could be eliminated. By fighting against the graffiti on the trains and in the stations, and generally clean and gepflegtere railway facilities, he tried to win over the middle class again for the subway. 1990 David Gunn finished his work in New York.

From 1991 to 1994 he worked as General Manager of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ( WMATA ). The Toronto Transit Commission Gunn was Chief General Manager from 1995 to 1999. During this time he was able to increase the cost of coverage for the transport companies from 66% to 80%. He also raised the entertainment level of the railway facilities and trains.

On 15 May 2002 he was appointed out of retirement as president and CEO of Amtrak. On 25 November 2005, he was released from this position. The reasons were mainly in differences with the Bush administration on the financing and the continued development of Amtrak.

Then Gunn worked temporarily for the conservative think tank "Free Congress Foundation".