---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-177535"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GBX"
cik: "0000923120"
company_name: "GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC"
filed_at: "2023-06-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T15:53:28.547842+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Greenbrier elects former KCS CEO Patrick Ottensmeyer to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Board expanded from 10 to 11 members; Ottensmeyer elected effective June 29, 2023.
- Ottensmeyer served as President and CEO of Kansas City Southern (KCS) from 2015-2023 until CPKC merger.
- He brings rail industry expertise, USMCA involvement, and U.S.-Mexico trade relations insight.
- Nine of 11 board members are independent directors.
- He will participate in standard director compensation program as described in proxy.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-177535
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GBX
- cik: 0000923120
- company_name: GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC
- filed_at: 2023-06-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923120/000119312523177535/0001193125-23-177535-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923120/000119312523177535/d424483d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-177535
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-177535.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-177535.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Patrick J. Ottensmeyer was elected as Director at GREENBRIER COMPANIES INC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On June 27, 2023, the Board of Directors of the Company increased the size of the Board from ten to eleven members and elected Patrick J. Ottensmeyer to serve on its Board beginning on June 29, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923120/000119312523177535/0001193125-23-177535-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.