Board Members

Mason Zhang

Mason Zhang is one of the shareholders of OmniTRAX and has been with OmniTRAX since 1998. Mr. Zhang has accumulated a wealth of experience in his career for a wide range of companies and entrepreneurs. He has held leadership positions in various areas such as audit, strategic planning, and marketing. He is responsible for setting long-term strategic direction and overseeing corporate culture and development. Mr. Zhang is a graduate of the University of Chicago

Pat Broe

Pat Broe founded his namesake company in 1972 as a Denver-based real estate asset management firm. Beginning with small residential and commercial rehabilitations, he soon began to accumulate a portfolio of properties. He began trading land, assembling development sites and repositioning commercial properties, primarily in the central business district of Denver. These activities provided the base from which The Broe Group grew and diversified into its present form.

Over the course of four decades, Mr. Broe has built a diversified private equity investment enterprise with a multi-billion dollar asset base with investments spanning a wide range of industries, including commercial and residential real estate, medical office buildings and assisted living communities, diverse transportation-based companies, medical devices, agricultural investments as well as energy ventures such as oil and gas exploration and production and coal mining.

Mr. Broe focuses on the strategic direction of the company, investment policy and financing activities, and the identification of attractive assets for acquisition.

Dean Piacente

Dean Piacente serves as the Chief Executive Officer for OmniTRAX, Inc., one of North America’s largest privately held transportation services companies. As CEO, Dean oversees the daily operations of the company’s Short Line Railroads, Terminal Services, Transload Services, and Industrial Development / Real Estate Services.

Piacente joins OmniTRAX following a thirty-two-year career with CSX Corporation, a multibillion-dollar Class I Railroad Company. Piacente’s deep commercial, terminal operating, and finance experience is derived from multiple assignments and senior leadership roles. A New York native and Florida State University graduate, Piacente holds executive education credentials from Harvard Business School and Columbia University.