Norbridge | Management Team Bios | Darius W. Gaskins, Jr. Founding Partner | Norbridge is an independent multi-specialty management consulting firm located in Concord Massachusetts.

Darius W. Gaskins, Jr., a Partner at Norbridge, Inc., provides senior counsel on regulatory and public policy issues in the transportation and energy industries.

Mr. Gaskins has had a distinguished career in industry, government, and academia:

Visiting Professor, Center for Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1989 to 1991
President and Chief Executive Officer, Burlington Northern Railroad, 1985 to 1989; Senior Vice President, Marketing and Sales, Burlington Northern Railroad, 1982 to 1985
Senior Vice President, Natomas North America, 1981 to 1982
Chairman, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1980 to 1981
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Policy Analysis, Department of Energy, 1978 to 1979
Director, Office of Economic Analysis, Civil Aeronautics Board, 1977 to 1978
Director, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission, 1976 to 1977
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, 1975 to 1976 and 1970 to 1973
Economic Advisor, House Ad Hoc Committee on the Outer Continental Shelf, 1975
Director, Office of Outer Continental Shelf, Department of the Interior, 1975; Acting Director, Office of Minerals Policy Department, Department of the Interior, 1974; Assistant Director, Economics, Office of Policy Analysis, Department of the Interior, 1973
Instructor (Captain, USAF), Aerospace Research Pilots School, 1963 to 1967

Mr. Gaskins holds a Ph.D in economics and Masters in Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a B.S. from the United States Military Academy (distinguished graduate).

He is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors for Sapient Corporation, and is a former Director for the following companies: Anacomp, Inc.; Burlington Northern Inc.; Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc.; Leaseway Transportation Corporation; MidSouth Corporation; Northwestern Steel and Wire Company; and UNR Industries, Inc. Mr. Gaskins is also a past Chairman of Resources for the Future, a non-profit environmental policy group based in Washington, DC.