Could Matthew K. Rose now be on the short list of candidates to possibly succeed Warren Buffett as the operations head of Berkshire Hathaway? Let the speculation begin.
Rose, 49, has been chairman, president and CEO of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., which Berkshire plans to acquire, since March 2002.
Buffett has repeatedly praised the job Rose has done at BNSF. Rose's experience running a huge corporation and his relative youth would seem to put him on a short list of possible Buffett successors, a list that most agree is headed by David Sokol.
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