CSX Activist May Undercut Own Message With Pay Demands: Gadfly

It’s opposite day at CSX Corp., where an activist investor is fighting for — rather than against — a jumbo-sized executive pay package. Mantle Ridge, led by former Bill Ackman lieutenant Paul Hilal, has amassed a stake in the railroad and is seeking to install former Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. CEO and storied cost cutter Hunter Harrison in the top post at CSX.