Canadian man killed in Amtrak train derailment
Posted May 14, 2015 04:23:18 AM.
Last Updated May 14, 2015 04:24:38 AM.
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TORONTO – A Canadian executive with a US financial services company is one of the seven people killed Tuesday when an Amtrak train derailed in Philadelphia.
Wells Fargo says Abid Gilani — a married father of two — was a senior vice-president in the company’s commercial real estate division in New York.
Speaking in Rockland, Maryland last night, Gilani’s wife, Diana, said her husband was a “dear person” and “a kind family man” who will be “sorely missed.”
She said they are both from Canada and moved to the United States “decades ago” but still have family ties in Ontario.
Gilani’s LinkedIn profile shows he went to Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario and the University of Saskatchewan before working as a mine planning engineer in Saskatoon.
He also worked for ScotiaBank and RBC Dominion Securities and spent about eight years with the Mariott International hotel chain before joining Wells Fargo.
The New York Daily News says Gilani was returning to New York from Virginia where he and his mother, who lives in Toronto, had attended his uncle’s funeral when the crash happened.
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