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Farrukh Bezar

Operating Partner

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Farrukh Bezar

Mr. Farrukh Bezar joined Littlejohn in 2024 as an Operating Partner focusing on Transportation and Logistics space. Mr. Bezar most recently served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at CSX Corporation, with responsibility for leading the company’s strategic growth initiatives. Previously, he was Senior Vice President of Marketing, overseeing the company’s marketing groups as well as having corporate strategy responsibilities. A transportation and logistics industry strategist and analyst for more than 25 years, Mr. Bezar joined CSX in May 2019 from Lynwood Partners, a transportation and logistics advisory firm he founded in 2017 and led as a managing partner. His previous experience includes senior leadership roles within the transportation and logistics functions at Clarendon, Booz Allen Hamilton, and A.T. Kearney. He also previously held sales and marketing positions at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company and served as a financial analyst with Chase Manhattan Bank. Mr. Bezar holds an MBA in management, marketing and transportation from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science, also from Northwestern. He currently serves on the boards of Magnate Worldwide, STG and the Northwestern Transportation Advisory Board.