Norfolk Southern highlights strengths of its highly qualified board

Norfolk Southern Corporation has issued the following statement highlighting the strength of its board of directors and its track record of thoughtful refreshment:

Norfolk Southern's board is composed of industry leaders with the specific skills needed to oversee our strategy, drive sustainable value, and hold management accountable. Our board members have significant, complementary, and diverse expertise, including rail transportation, operations, finance, regulatory and governmental relations, safety, sustainability, cybersecurity, and other relevant skills to continue the board's effective, independent oversight.

The board embraces change and feedback from investors to ensure alignment with shareholders' best interests. Indeed, the board has led a thoughtful and comprehensive refreshment process to ensure it is best positioned to hold management accountable and deliver results for shareholders. This includes appointing six new directors in the past five years. The board most recently nominated Richard Anderson, former CEO of Delta and Amtrak, and Mary Kathryn "Heidi" Heitkamp, former U.S. Senator and rail safety advocate.

As a result of its ongoing refreshment process, Norfolk Southern has assembled a board comprising leaders who represent the best of their respective industries:

• Admiral Philip Davidson (retired four-star Admiral in the U.S. Navy);
• Francesca DeBiase (former EVP and global chief supply chain officer at McDonald's Corporation);
• Marcela Donadio (former audit partner and Americas Oil and Gas sector leader at Ernst & Young);
• John Huffard, Jr. (seasoned technology and cybersecurity executive with over two decades of experience as co-founder of Tenable Holdings, Inc.);
• Christopher Jones (former corporate VP and president of the technology services sector of Northrop Grumman Corporation);
• Colm Kelleher (Chairman of the Board of UBS Group AG and former president of Morgan Stanley);
• Amy Miles, independent chair of the board (former CEO of Regal Entertainment Group);
• Claude Mongeau (renowned railroad executive and former CEO of Canadian National);
• Jennifer Scanlon (current CEO of UL Solutions Inc., a leading global safety science organization, and former CEO of USG Corporation);
• Alan Shaw (Norfolk Southern's president and CEO responsible for developing and implementing our balanced strategy, and who previously served as EVP and CMO and VP, Intermodal Operations); and
• John Thompson (former senior executive and director at multiple customer-facing publicly traded companies, including Best Buy Co., Inc.).

It is this cohort of extremely talented and experienced directors that Ancora would have shareholders dismantle and replace with inferior nominees who the board has determined lack the necessary qualifications to serve on the board. They are being put forward solely as part of Ancora's campaign to remove management and take control of the board to implement Ancora's ill-conceived and reckless strategy. Ancora's attempt is not only unwarranted, it would introduce significant risk to our strategy and result in value destruction for our shareholders.