Carey graduated from Clark Atlanta University (2010) with a B.A. in Business Administration, concentrated in marketing and was an intern at Union Pacific while in college. Since joining Union Pacific full time, he has held several commercial sales roles with direct customer engagement in various markets with assignments for the company in Omaha, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Detroit, and Houston. He spent the last 6 years leading commodity-based sales teams; most recently serving as General Director of Petrochemicals.

Prior to his current role in Operations, Elium served as Group Vice President, Automotive Marketing & Sales and Assistant Vice President, Customer Service, both in the Marketing Division. He previously was the company's Assistant General Manager, Crew Management. In these roles, he had responsibility for customer logistics overseeing industrial products and train unit shipments as well as automotive commercial responsibilities for finished vehicles and automotive part shipments.

Elium has also held roles in Labor Relations, and Human Resources. He joined Norfolk Southern as a Management Trainee in 2012. He serves on the boards of Conrail, Belt Railway of Chicago, and Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad.

Elium earned a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.

Since 1827, Norfolk Southern has safely moved the goods and materials that drive the U.S. economy. Today, its dedicated team members deliver more than 7 million carloads annually, from agriculture to consumer goods, and is the largest rail shipper of auto products and metals in North America. Norfolk Southern also has the most extensive intermodal network in the eastern U.S., serving a majority of the country's population and manufacturing base, with connections to every major container port on the Atlantic coast as well as the Gulf of Mexico and Great Lakes.