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MARCH 2023 Global Supply Chain Solutions Covering Procurement, Warehousing, Transportation Fresh new content daily at www.SDCEXEC.COM SPECIAL EDITION BRINGS HONESTY TO THE TRANSPORTATION SPACE CANDOR EXPEDITE’S NICOLE GLENN 2023 MEET OTHER PROS TO KNOW WINNERS: LEADERS OF THE PACK IN DIVERSITY, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY

2022 PROS TO KNOW

Candor Expedite’s NICOLE GLENN Brings Honesty to the Transportation Space

Nicole Glenn is known for walking the talk—what you see is what you get. She gives her heart and soul to everything she does and does so with purpose and candor.

But when she thinks back to the past 23 years of her logistics career, it’s the lack of candor and honesty in transportation that prompted her to develop Candor Expedite Inc., an expedited delivery and logistics service provider.

“The name Candor was selected based on my experiences of being in logistics for 18 years. I had witnessed time and time again the dishonesty that ripples throughout our industry. This dishonesty comes in all forms and creates a domino effect within the supply chain for a client; it stops production lines from running and causes manufacturers to lose clients. It has an unidentifiable amount of time spent for a company tied to it; whether it’s chasing answers or making contingency plans, it’s a waste,” Glenn says.

“I knew we could develop a company that cut through this issue and bring clarity, honesty, transparency and deserved service to the manufacturing world, allowing our clients to become the hero of their stories when partnering with us,” she adds.

Since then, under Glenn’s leadership, Candor Expedite has seen a 158% increase in revenue from $4 million to $11.1 million in 2021 and into 2022. She’s doubled Candor’s staff with a focus on hiring and empowering females in logistics. She was awarded by the Women’s Best Enterprise

Network Council for giving female logistics leaders the opportunity to connect with supplier diversity programs across the United States. She also developed the Ladies Leadership Coalition podcast, which spotlights women in supply chain and logistics making a difference in the industry and their respective communities.

What’s more, Candor Expedite has helped many companies reduce their freight budgets by re-evaluating how they are moving freight, some saving 30-40%.

“When entering transportation, I never envisioned it would become my entire career until I quickly realized that I would love the chaos to help the world move. I would tell people that I worked in logistics, and they would look at me strangely; trucking was not a place for a young woman in their minds. Yet, I pressed on with my love of solution-generating and developing a profound learning on ‘making things happen’ for my clients and partners,” says Glenn.

It's these reasons and more that warrant

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Nicole Glenn, founder and CEO of Candor Expedite Inc., was named the overall winner of Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s 2023 Pros to Know award. Candor Expedite Inc.

Glenn, founder and CEO of Candor Expedite, the overall winner of Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s 2023 Pros to Know award.

What differentiates Glenn from the 400plus nominations is her ability to build the smartest and most efficient freight business while advocating for supply chain education and mentoring other women in a male-dominated industry.

For the past 6 years, “we have since evolved our company due to the candidness that has come back from our clients on what matters most to them. This has led to the growth of our truckload division, our white glove services, our air freight services and our first and final-mile division,” Glenn says. “We grew a company focusing on candidness, which led to growth for all parties involved, including our employees, vendors and clients.”

Glenn entered the transportation space at just 18 years old, after being recruited by a small transportation brokerage. There, she learned the inner workings of handling a small business and working with manufacturers, carriers and drivers, all while attending community college courses at

night.

Then, in 2008, Glenn accepted a position in transportation sales, where she was eager to learn more from others and experience all there is to the transportation segment.

In 2011, she took on her first executive role as president of a transportation brokerage company, where she planned to prevail as a leader, but instead was very uncomfortable in the space.

“I would be frustrated with where individuals desired change from my experiences with them in the past. Then it happened; I fell in love with the development of people. I decided then that I was never going back to a sole contributor role as this space became the most fulfilling role I could ever want. During this time, not only did the people also grow in their positions, the company flourished,” Glenn says.

That’s when Candor Expedite was born. Glenn and her team continue to evolve Candor Expedite to be more things to all customers. For instance, it helps reduce empty truck miles with distribution points at 80 partner warehouses across the country. Candor Expedite also maximizes its customers’ equipment usage, eliminates claims and brings in centralized communication from the start of purchasing materials through delivery.

What also really separates Glenn from other award winners is her candidness with regards to her journey and her mission to diversify the supply chain.

“Being a female in transportation has taught me to be audacious to seek challenges and turn them into opportunities. But also, it's humbling to me that a mid-size company can be acknowledged for striving for excellence,” Glenn says. “Receiving this award is very humbling as it makes me reflect upon the many positive things in my career, and hopefully, the impact I have made on others.”

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Candor Expedite helps companies reduce empty truck miles with distribution points at 80 partner warehouses across the country.
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LEADERS OF THE PACK in Diversity, Innovation & Technology

APros to Know by Supply & Demand Chain Executive standards is an outstanding leader who reinvents what it means to be a supply chain professional.

Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s 2023 Pros to Know winners consist of supply chain professionals who are doing just that, and more.

Supply & Demand Chain Executive received close to 400 nominations this year, the highest number of nominations ever for this award. It’s proof that today’s supply chain professionals are

HANNAH KAIN President & CEO, ALOM

Hannah Kain, president and CEO of ALOM, a company she founded in 1997, spends her time providing strategic planning and oversight in global operations, financial performance, staffing and compliance. For the past 8 years, Kain has been recognized as a Supply & Demand Chain Executive Pros to Know winner, and remains highly engaged with her leadership team to monitor status of all ALOM supply chain client programs as well as direct new business development opportunities. This past summer, Kain was recognized with the top achiever Manufacturing Leadership award by the Manufacturing Leadership Council in the category of cultural transformation for ALOM’s DOING initiative, which was later named a recipient of Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s Top Supply Chain Project award. The strategy that Kain has championed and fast-tracked is a full court press supplier nearsourcing push,

doing great things for the supply chain. Congratulations to all of this year’s Pros to Know winners, who are leading the pack in terms of innovation, enhancement and providing problem-solving solutions to the supply chain.

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where today, 80% of ALOM global suppliers are located less than 100 miles from production and fulfillment facilities.

LISA DOLAN VP of Supply Chain Strategy, ALOM

As the VP of supply chain strategy for ALOM, Lisa Dolan excels in conceptualizing and implementing new solutions to solve real-world supply chain challenges for ALOM customers. Primarily, Dolan focuses on improving or expanding existing client supply chain delivery programs or proposing and closing sales for new client services. She draws up the complex process flow diagrams for each new program proposal, and is an expert at technology and database administration. She also spends time defining supply chain opportunities for electric vehicle charging stations and other infrastructure material commodities and experts. Dolan is a seven-time winner of Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s Pros to Know award,

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and was named overall Pros to Know winner in 2019. Additional accomplishments include the planning and on-time launch of new client service programs, and was instrumental in advocating with the ALOM supply base team to nearsource a rapidly increasing number of suppliers to mitigate this challenge. Today 80% of ALOM suppliers are located under 100 miles from ALOM facilities.

BRANDON MARUGG COO, ALOM

In August 2022, Brandon Marugg was promoted to COO, tasked with ensuring ALOM’s operational capacity and supply chain performance scales to meet projected growth and quality objectives. Marugg was named a Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s Pros to Know winner in 2018. Marugg directs the operational resources responsible for developing and implementing the systems that support each unique client need as well as internal business support functions, including supplier management and human capital management tools. Additional accomplishments include a 100% on-time program launch record for all new and existing client programs; a four-times growth in client adoption of the ALOM open API interface for fully automated and secure order intake, visibility and reporting; and joining president and CEO Hannah Kain in opening a new 95,000-squarefoot production and fulfillment facility.

FAITH WILMOTH Director of Managed Operations, ArcBest

Faith Wilmoth is director of managed operations at ArcBest, where she oversees a team of more than 100 operations and configurations experts who create integrated and tailored solutions for ArcBest’s customers. Structurally, Wilmoth’s team sits under ArcBest’s Managed Transportation segment, where they work closely with ArcBest’s vast network of

over 80,000 carriers and partners across LTL and TL divisions. Through her collaborative approach, her responsibilities include everything from determining freight locations and managing team member allocations to identifying ways to integrate solutions for customers better. Wilmoth also formed a dedicated reporting team to drive better visibility within ArcBest’s transportation management system, and a warehouse auditing team to ensure invoicing accuracy.

BILL BENTON Co-Founder, GAINS

Bill Benton is part of a supply chain legacy dating back to his father’s founding of the company, which became GAINS in 1971. He later became CEO of GAINS, following earlier roles in professional services and product/ algorithm design. In 2022, he took on the role of co-founder, which allowed him to focus more on product strategy, customer relationships and global partnerships. He is also dedicated to social responsibility and making a sustainable global impact, contributing to the construction of a solar well in Haiti for every new GAINS client and using upcycled glass in the construction of the GAINS Chicago headquarters. Under his leadership, the company will be carbon neutral in 2023. Benton also advocates for incremental, measurable success for his customers. Under Benton’s leadership, GAINS has sought to “democratize world-class supply chain planning.” In 2022, GAINS formalized its innovation efforts by creating GAINS Labs, a part of the organization staffed by data scientists applying AI and ML to real-world problems in partnership with customers.

Keith Hartley joined LevaData as new CEO in November 2022, with

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decades of experience leading go-to-market and sales teams at Blue Yonder and iValua. Hartley maintains a bold vision for the next stage of the company because he believes LevaData can fundamentally create economic opportunities for all companies across the supply chain. His initial months were focused on speaking with LevaData’s customers, partners and employees to fully assess the opportunities ahead and outline the company’s priorities for the next year. He’s also been actively working with the leadership team to clearly articulate the problem LevaData solves for its customers, for example, getting companies to reinvent their current workflow and replace spreadsheets and manual processes with robust insights and intelligence. From engineers and marketers to sales and general management roles, Hartley is proud of building supply chain teams that organically connect to the broader organization.

VICTORIA MA Head of Digital & Innovation, Miebach Consulting

Victoria Ma serves as head of digital and innovation for Miebach Consulting, responsible for identifying and leading client projects relative to the digitalization of supply chain processes; designing solutions that leverage the power of data and enhanced analytics; supporting digital transformation; and developing innovative digital solutions and making them accessible to clients in software-as-a-service. Ma has built, developed and led her team of 6 individuals who have successfully delivered multiple projects this year, including proof of concept for the client, development of the solution and implementation of the application. She also developed three different intellectual properties for supply chain models and algorithms, currently under copyright review. Her solutions help to reduce costs, increase resiliency and improve product availability to the market. Ma is also a 2020 recipient of Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s Women in Supply Chain award.

LINDSEY TRENT Co-Founder & President, Next Generation in Trucking Association

As the co-founder and president of the Next Generation in Trucking Association

as well as the Next Generation in Trucking Foundation, Lindsey Trent’s mission is to educate youth on the opportunities within the trucking sector and provide free assistance and support to high schools in developing truck driving training programs. Trent’s daily tasks and responsibilities include meeting with high schools and providing hands-on assistance on how to start a CDL training program; building relationships with industry partners to support the mission; creating awareness opportunities; and overseeing and facilitating organizational board meetings and action committees, among other functions. In 2022, she was named a recipient of Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s Women in Supply Chain award and served as a panelist at Supply & Demand Chain Executive's Women in Supply Chain Forum. In the past year, she created Next Generation in Trucking State Action Committees, and created an NGT Career Presentation Task Force responsible for creating a high school career presentation that anyone from the trucking industry can use to teach a one-day class.

JASON THAM CEO, Nulogy

Jason Tham, CEO of Nulogy, is otherwise known as the “keeper of the vision” for the company, primarily responsible for aligning the organization toward both long- and short-term strategic goals. Tham’s biggest accomplishments have been launching new products for Nulogy to drive improved performance for customers and the industry as a whole; welcoming new customers onto the

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Nulogy platform; and delivering continuous value to partners, employees and other stakeholders. He created what he calls Moonshot, an innovation pipeline of products. Tham’s vision also helped launch Data as a Service, Nulogy’s newest product capability that helps customers harness their operational data for deeper insights and collaboration with trading partners. He was instrumental in landing and servicing new clients in Nulogy’s target industries, and hiring more senior women executives in the company. He’s also very active in Nulogy’s employee relations committee, and helped establish an education fund for all employees where they can apply funds toward learning opportunities.

CHRISTINE BARNHART VP of Product Marketing & Go-to-Market, Nulogy

Christine Barnhart is VP of product marketing and go-to-market at Nulogy, responsible for leveraging her 15-plus years of experience with internal and external stakeholders to drive supply chain innovation and improve supply chain excellence. Barnhart active in a number of organizations, including serving on the board of directors of the Association of Supply Chain Management (ASCM) to ensure the advancement of end-toend supply chain management through a body of knowledge, innovative research, systems and methods. She also serves as president of TriState Women in STEM, a non-profit group that provides professional development, networking and outreach opportunities for women in STEM fields. Barnhart is also a member of Chief, sits on the board of directors for Women of Action, an advisor to the University of Evansville Logistics and Supply Chain Program, a member of the Senior Leadership group for Supply Chain Leaders in Action, an active participant in Supply Chain Insights Network of Networks group, and was named one of Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s 2022 Women in Supply Chain award winners. Previously, she served as VP of strategy and go-to-market at Verusen, where she

championed the creation of Verusen’s Network of Women.

ERIC (MAC) MCPHERSON VP, Client Services, Open Sky Group

As VP of client services, Eric (Mac) McPherson oversees implementation and integration projects for Open Sky Group clients. He is a former Marine officer and military police officer with over 27 years of supply chain and warehouse management experience, including 11 years at Blue Yonder spanning both delivery and service sales. He is also a dedicated, team-oriented professional with a strong background in business management, professional services, customer service and supply chain technology. He provides internal support to the sales and marketing team, and often spends his days helping clients manage supply chain execution system design and implementation programs. McPherson has supervised several high-profile WMS projects over the last year, one that saved 15-25% in labor efficiencies, increased customer satisfaction via more accurate shipping and saw 10-15% overall inventory reductions. McPherson also helps clients pinpoint solutions that span the gap, and grew his team from three resources to 12 and two directors in 11 months.

JASON MILBRANDT Senior Director, Client Services, Open Sky Group

Jason Milbrandt serves as senior director of client services for Open Sky Group, where he leads a team of industrial engineers in providing advisory services, software implementations and program development for clients in the supply chain. As a Blue Yonder WMS and WLM software specialist, Milbrandt guides clients through the process of adopting Blue Yonder software by helping them analyze their existing processes, uncover opportunities

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for improvement and create optimized solutions. He also develops scopes of work for Open Sky Group client engagements, manages resource planning for the delivery of projects, supports the marketing and sales teams with price estimates, software demonstrations and company promotions and is the face of the company on many fronts. In the past 12 months, Milbrandt has been instrumental in training clients on how to effectively utilize their systems to increase throughput and cost to serve.

MICHELLE SODOMKA Senior Director, Client Services, Open Sky Group

Michelle Sodomka joined Open Sky Group in January 2022 as senior director for client services, where she oversees the implementation of client solutions and pricing. She maintains in-depth experience leading supply chain operations management, IT transformations, cross-functional teams and complex problem-solving across a broad range of verticals, including manufacturing, healthcare, high-tech and more. As the transportation management practice leader, Sodomka directs a group of 10 seasoned consultants responsible for executing full lifecycle implementations and support for Tier 1 and Tier 2 TMS. In this capacity, she provides advisory services for Open Sky Group clients, covering partner interaction, opportunity qualifying, proposal responses, bids, lead development, solution financing, training, customer engagement, succession planning and retention, as well as departmental operations, resources and economic activities. Over the past 12 months, Sodomka has focused on expanding the company’s TMS and service offerings, expanding partner resources to address full lifecycle services and solutions, boosting prospects for passive income from 11% to 33% and closed two major accounts representing $500,000-plus a year in revenue.

MATHEW WITTE SVP, ORTEC

As ORTEC’s SVP, Mathew Witte directly owns ORTEC’s “impact” on its customers by leading the business development and operations teams to fully understand the performance of each customer, recognizing their operational goals and metrics and guiding them to sustainable success. Witte also took on several additional initiatives and roles in 2022. For instance, he served as the executive in charge of Optimus, ORTEC’s user conference, and launched ORTEC Academy, ORTEC’s user education program for both user training and certification. He also initiated ORTEC’s Performance Audit program, a specific engagement at the customer level that fully assesses their final-mile performance and sets an appropriate go-forward strategy. In 2022, his theme frequently revolved around the fact that the “broken supply chain” actually had many broken parts prior to the pandemic, and unless an organization takes specific action to resolve those issues, they will not fix themselves. Also in 2022, Witte consulted with multiple customers on their business expansion plans, assisting with their strategy to serve new markets, open new distribution centers and hire additional workforce.

TOMASZ JAMROZ

Head of Technology & Operations, Roadrunner

Tomasz Jamroz is head of technology and operations for Roadrunner, specializing in applied quantitative and algorithmic modeling, innovation and human-centric process and technology design to optimize operations and enable customer, organization and partner interactions. Jamroz helped launched Haul Now, and was integral in getting Roadrunner to become a member of the Digital LTL Council and supporting the eBOL initiative. What’s more, Jamroz made the critical

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business decision to treat the development of Roadrunner’s next-generation logistics technology as a start-up enterprise and promote workforce development via the global supply chain, and created a “Band of Engineers” team that is integrated into each critical business function running from operations, maintenance, linehaul, pricing, and technology and fully empowered to make the most critical strategic decisions and process changes.

CARMIT GLIK CEO, Ship4wd

Carmit Glik, founding member and CEO of Ship4wd, advocates for small and mediumsize enterprises to ensure that the supply chain obstacles, customs hassles and neverending anxiety of international shipping never distract growth-minded companies from their core mission. At the helm, Glik operates as a steward of solutions for the company’s clients, focusing on people, process and profit. Glik ensures that employees align with company values and goals, instilling team morale and helping clients navigate a myriad of import and export issues. In the past year, Glik spearheaded the development of Ship4wd’s newest platform that provides an efficient, quick and transparent shipping and logistics process for business owners. Prior to Ship4wd, Glik served as an Advisory Board Member at theDock, was Europe CEO and managing director at Cogoport and director global head of sales at Damco. She also established operations and new businesses in multiple countries, including China, Italy, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the United States.

DAVID BUSH CEO, Spend Automation, Simfoni

As CEO of spend automation at Simfoni, David Bush leads a team of experts that help businesses worldwide

streamline operations, reduce costs and transform their procurement processes. Bush was brought on a year ago to help organizations leverage technology and strategic resourcing to gain control of their organization's unmanaged indirect spend. He focuses on minimizing negative impacts on supply chain continuity and inflation. With strategic category management, he helps take the burden off the other pieces of tail spend and composable technology by automating as much o procurement as possible with built-in predictive analytics to allow procurement professionals and practitioners to focus on the truly strategic issues inside their organization. Bush previously served as chief revenue officer of SpendHQ and co-founder and CEO of IASTA. He also founded and authored the eSourcing Forum to help branding for IASTA.

ALI KHAN Commercial Director, UAE Simfoni

Zoya Ali Khan serves as Simfoni’s commercial director for the UAE region, tasked with bringing significant saving for clients through sustainable, practical solutions, managing large projects and delivering high-quality, cost-effective solutions. Khan delivers 2.4 times ROI for her clients, specifically from driving spend automation solutions in the Middle East. In addition, she encourages clients to lessen their reliance on imported materials and instead purchase locally manufactured items. She also introduced an automated approval process within the Simfoni platform, expanded upon touchless catalog content and pre-negotiated deals within the system, making sourcing processes a seamless, user-friendly experience. She’s also a recipient of Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s 2022 Women in Supply Chain award. As a current student working toward her Master’s in Supply Chain, she builds awareness through her university and CIPS network.

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MATTHEW WRIGHT President & CEO, Specright

Matthew Wright is founder and CEO of Specright, a company he launched in 2016 to help companies across various industries better manage their supply chains.

Wright maintains more than two decades of packaging experience. In 2022, he helped launch Spec Academy, an online education platform that trains workers on specification management best practices. Wright’s commitment to academia and the future workforce of the supply chain is highlighted through Specright’s recent $500,000 sponsorship of Michigan State University’s School of Packaging to update the program’s computer lab to help prepare the next generation of packaging experts through hands-on training with industry leading technology. Another achievement was launching Specright’s first Specification Management Summit, which hosted more than 200 attendees to learn more about the critical role that a spec-first approach plays within the supply chain.

AYMAN SHOUKRY

CTO,

Specright

Ayman Shoukry is CTO at Specright, a role he’s held since 2019. As CTO, Shoukry is responsible for leading the technology development behind the Specright product, and is now building upon key integrations with Salesforce and AWS, while increasing Specright’s customer base among Fortune 500 and challenger brands. Shoukry was instrumental in developing a patent for Specright’s Specification Data Management platform, which validates its specfirst approach to the packaging and supply chain industry. Shoukry’s role primarily focuses on building the technology infrastructure behind the SDM product, which ultimately allows for data accuracy and visibility within the supply chain.

LAURA FOTI CMO, Specright

Laura Foti has been with Specright for over four years, beginning as the company’s director of marketing, to SVP marketing and investor relations to her most recent promotion of CMO, responsible for maintaining the company’s marketing direction and strategy. Since joining Specright in 2018 as one of the company’s first few employees, Foti has played a key role in building out and promoting the Specification Data Management category. Foti has been instrumental in helping to tell the Specright story from early evangelization and establishing the SDM category. Foti also hosts “Beyond the Shelf: The Product and Packaging Podcast,” where she brings on a diverse set of experts on the front lines to discuss behind-the-scenes insights and educate the next generation of packaging and supply chain leaders.

MITCH LUCIANO CEO, Trailer Bridge, Inc.

As CEO of Trailer Bridge, Mitch Luciano spends his days helping to foster innovation across the supply chain. Luciano leads the strategic direction of Trailer Bridge and advocates for a company culture built on love, kindness and service. He also works alongside local leaders in Jacksonville, Fla., and Puerto Rico, to advocate for the maritime and transportation industry. In the last 12 months, Luciano has led the business to achieve significant growth, opening three new branches in 2022 and hiring 125 people. He also led leadership development sessions for employees, invested time with local college and high school students talking about a career in logistics and implemented the MasterMind TMS with partner Mastery Logistics Systems, Inc. Luciano also worked with leadership at the Jacksonville Port Authority to execute a longterm lease agreement at the port’s Blount Island

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terminal ensuring consistent, weekly service to the island through at least 2041.

Jeff Vaughn serves as chief commercial officer for Trailer Bridge, responsible for developing and leading the strategic commercial goals and spearheading the company’s sales efforts across all business lines. With more than 25 years in the industry, Vaughn maintains a wide array of experience navigating supply chain challenges. Vaughn supported the initiative to reach a long-term lease agreement with the Jacksonville Port Authority to ensure continued, consistent ocean service through at least 2041. Vaughn also supported the launch of the company’s new MasterMind TMS; was instrumental in leading the growth of revenue; and launched Trailer Bridge International to move freight globally.

As chief people officer of Trailer Bridge, Indie Bollman is responsible for supporting the company’s growth to 1,000 employees by 2027 and for setting and implementing strategies, including oversight and strategy design and implementation in the organization development and people operations areas of human resources and employee services, marketing, training and development and talent acquisition. In the past 12 months, Bollman launched an internal training and development team focused on creating and facilitating programs that provide employees the tools they need to be successful in their current roles but also their next career move with Trailer Bridge. She led an internal Upskilling Program to support employee’s knowledge base for all aspects of their role from office basics to industry expertise and more. She also created and co-leads Trailer

Bridge’s in-house Extreme Leadership program and established a training and development team prioritizing the human element of logistics, developing and teaching both the soft and hard skills to support workforce success in today’s industry, and served as a mentor for Mentoring Monday, an annual initiative of Jacksonville Business Journal bringing mentoring opportunities to local women in business.

JENNIFER KARPUSROMAIN Executive Director, Transportation Marketing & Sales Association (TMSA)

Jennifer Karpus-Romain serves as executive director of Transportation Marketing & Sales Association (TMSA), tasked with managing sales, developing TMSA’s long-term strategy to working hand-in-hand with TMSA’s volunteer network to execute initiatives, planning events, coordinating with the education committee on the association’s educational lineup, developing a marketing strategy, working with the sales department, holding prospect and new member meetings and developing thought leadership material to put out into the market. KarpusRomain became executive director of TMSA at the end of 2021 and hit the ground running to modernize the association and gain better brand recognition throughout the supply chain. Within the first year of leadership, she upgraded all internal systems and streamlined processes, as well as launched a new website and member portal. She breathed life into TMSA’s annual ELEVATE Conference, and held the association’s first Executive Summit. Plus, she was named one of Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s Women in Supply Chain recipients in 2022.

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Ron Lee

Chief Product Officer | 3Gtms

Mike Lindquist

Director of Market Research | A. Duie Pyle

Alan Gardner

Director of Business Development |

A. Oliveri & Sons

Paul Barnaba

Strategy Principal | Accenture

Nathan Johnson

Chief Information Officer | AFS Logistics

Mingshu Bates

Chief Analytics Officer | AFS Logistics

Trevor Read

President | Agistix

Marc El Khoury

CEO & Co-Founder | aifleet

Harley Hess

EVP Head of Supply Chain Transformation |

All State Ag Parts

Lisa Dolan

VP of Supply Chain Strategy | ALOM

Brandon Marugg

Chief Operating Officer | ALOM

Hannah Kain

President & CEO | ALOM

Michael Wohlwend

Managing Principal | Alpine Supply Chain Solutions

Faith Wilmoth

Director of Managed Operations | ArcBest

Edmund Zagorin

CEO | Arkestro

Blair Blake

VP of Carrier Strategy | Arrive Logistics

Michael Senftleber

Chief Technology Officer | Arrive Logistics

David Spencer

VP of Market Intelligence | Arrive Logistics

Abhro Choudhury

Principal Solutions Consultant |

Aspen Technology

James Calder

VP, Compliance & Regulatory Programs |

Assent

Katie Martin

Lead Sustainability & ESG Principal | Avetta

Christian Peterson

Senior Supply Chain Solutions Architect |

Avnet

Ron Daggett

SVP, Technology & Engineering |

Bastian Solutions, a Toyota Advanced Logistics company

Rohit Joshi

SVP, Supply Chain Transformation

| Baxter Planning

Benjamin Price Laflamme

Director of Product Management

| Baxter Planning

Chet Taff

CEO & Founder | Beltrees Consulting Services

Traci Nichols

Partner, Head of Digital Procurement Delivery

| Beltrees Consulting Services

Charles Ickes

President & COO | Bergen Logistics

Mark Canes

President & CEO | Blue Link Associates

Chirag Modi

Corporate VP, Industry Strategy, Supply Chain

Execution | Blue Yonder

Matt Muenster

Chief Economist | Breakthrough

Cam Aukeman

Director of Client Delivery | Breakthrough

Jenny Vander Zanden COO | Breakthrough

Sam Polakoff

CEO | BrillDog

Nicole Glenn

Founder & CEO | Candor Expedite, Inc.

Bryan Most

EVP Strategic Accounts | Cargomatic

Geoff Coltman

VP | Catena Solutions

Andrew Sobko

Founder & CEO | CDL 1000

Julien Brun

Managing Partner & Founder | CEL

Jag Lamba

Founder & CEO | Certa

Christa Hinkel

VP, Customer Success | Chain.io

Hiral Nisar

Director, Supply Chain Design | Chainalytics, an NTT DATA company

Tim Brindley

Principal, Supply Chain Operations | Chainalytics, an NTT Data company

Dan Sobbott

Principal, Supply Chain Design | Chainalytics, an NTT DATA company

Bill Mrzlak

President | ChainSequence, Inc.

Adam Gurga

Sales Manager, North America | Cimcorp Automation Ltd.

Derek Rickard

Director of Sales | Cimcorp Automation Ltd.

Donna Palumbo-Miele

Founder & CEO |

Concordia Supply Chain Group LLC

Ken Tock

VP, Product Development |

Consolidated Chassis Management

Michael Mitchell

SVP & COO |

Consolidated Chassis Management

Tom Martucci

VP & Chief Technology Officer |

Consolidated Intermodal Technologies

Christine McKechnie

Director, Value Solutions Consulting | Coupa Software

Michael Bucci

Senior Director, Customer Solution Partner | Coupa Software

Nari Viswanathan

Senior Director | Coupa Software

Mike Doherty

Partner | Demand Clarity Inc

Justin Stone

SVP, Business Development & Customer Success | Deposco

Sally Miller

CIO, North America & Digital Transformation

Officer | DHL Supply Chain

Denise Lingenfelter

Global Corporate Accounts Director | Digi-Key Electronics

Adolph Colaco

Founder & CEO | e2log

Pawan Joshi

EVP of Products & Strategy | E2open

Doug Waggoner

CEO | Echo Global Logistics

Pierre-François Thaler

Co-CEO | EcoVadis

Edward Cox

Principal | Efficio

Simon Lipscomb

VP | Efficio

Cody Steigerwald

Director of Operations | ELITE Transit Solutions

Larry Cuddy

CEO | Envase Technologies

Coby Nilsson

CEO & Co-Founder | Enveyo

Amit Kirpalani

VP, Supply Chain Solutions | enVista

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Michael Krabbe

Strategic Account Executive | enVista

Ulf Venne

Leader, Center of Excellence | Everstream Analytics

Mirko Woitzik

Director, Intelligence Solutions | Everstream Analytics

Heather Kosztowny

Senior Data Scientist | Everstream Analytics

Pauline Potter

Procurement Director | EVRi

Carrie Wibben

President, Government Solutions | Exiger

Brandon Daniels

CEO | Exiger

Andy Lloyd

CEO | Extensiv

Shelly Shingadia

VP, Strategic Sourcing | Federal Reserve

Jose Manuel Del Angel

VP Operations, Development & Services | Fictiv

Bill Thayer

CEO | Fillogic

Bob Schreiner

VP of Security & Guard Services |

Fine Tune Expense Management

Kristopher Dolch

VP of Strategic Fleet Solutions |

Fleet Advantage

John Flynn

CEO | Fleet Advantage

Kaitlyn Glancy

VP Head of North America | Flexport

Oren Zaslansky

CEO & Founder | Flock Freight

Leonardo Amigoni

COO | Fluid Truck

Anders Lillevik

CEO & Founder | Focal Point

Robert McKeel

CEO | FORTNA

Matt Lawrence

CEO | Fox Logistics

Harshida Acharya

Partner and CMO | Fulfillment IQ

Dan Coll

Partner and CRO | Fulfillment IQ

Ninaad Acharya

CEO, CPO & Co-Founder | Fulfillment IQ

Bill Benton

Co-Founder | GAINS

Daniela Hendricks

Chief Compliance & Process Officer |

Gebrüder Weiss

Pal Narayanan

EVP & CIO | GEODIS, Americas

Richard Herrin

Director SI&OP/Integrated Business Planning | GEON Performance Solutions

John Piatek

VP, Consulting | GEP

Krista Canton

Executive Director, Services | Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX)

Mark Ang

CEO & Co-Founder | GoBolt

Samay Kohli

Co-Founder & CEO | GreyOrange

Samantha Preston

Senior Director of Supply Chain | Grover Gaming, Inc

Steve Lewis

SVP, Commercial Strategy | GXO Logistics

Maureen Findley

Senior Director, Operations Project Management Office | GXO Logistics

Joanna Borkowska-Iwanek

HR Director, Poland and Czech Republic | GXO Logistics

Diane Blair

Global Senior Director, Field Operations | Honeywell

George Koutsaftes

President & CEO, Safety and Productivity Solutions | Honeywell

Patricia Moser

Principal (Owner) | i3 Advantage Inc.

Pushpinder Singh

Partner, Finance & Supply Chain

Transformation | IBM - International Business Machines Corporation

Takshay Aggarwal

Practice Leader, Supply Chain & Manufacturing | IBM - International Business Machines Corporation

Art Van Der Stuyf

Director of Supply Chain Strategy | iGPS Logistics

Thomas Borders

VP & General Manager for ProductLifeCycle Cloud | Inmar Intelligence

Karen Puchalsky

CEO | Innovate E-Commerce, Inc.

Lior Elazary

CEO & Co-Founder | inVia Robotics

Jared Williams

Director, Logistics Operations | Jarrett

Anne Omrod

CEO & Founder | John Galt Solutions

See Jean Lau

General Manager and VP, APAC | Kaleris

Kim Kuesel

General Manager and VP, Americas | Kaleris

Dylan Alperin

Head of Professional Services | Keelvar

Sheraz Kashif

Chief Supply Chain Officer | K-Electric Limited

Polly Mitchell-Guthrie

VP of Industry Outreach & Thought

Leadership | Kinaxis

Giovanni Pizzoferrato

CTO | Kinaxis

Glen Wegel

VP of Operations & IT |

Kitchen Cabinet Distributors

Seth Hayes

Director of Operations |

Kitchen Cabinet Distributors

Rick Tellez

Co-Founder | KlearNow

Larry Strayhorn

CEO | KPI Integrated Solutions

Jim Kuecker

Chief Commercial Officer |

KPI Integrated Solutions

Phillip Kiss

Purchasing Manager | LA Vapor Inc.

Thaddeus Puccini

Senior Executive, Packaging & Global Business Development | Labelmaster

Richard Lebovitz

President & CEO | LeanDNA

Keith Hartley

CEO & Board Member | LevaData

Elizabeth Maxted

VP and General Manager, Capital Assets

Group, North America | Liquidity Services

Brett Suma

CEO | Loadsmith

Nishith Rastogi

Founder & CEO | Locus

Jasmine Lombardi

Chief Customer Officer | Locus Robotics

Allan Dow

President | Logility, Inc.

Marti Kirsch

EVP of Marketing | Logility, Inc.

Erhan Musaoglu

CEO & Founder | Logiwa Inc.

Duff Davidson

President & CEO | Made4net

Thierry Jaffry

Chief Growth Officer | MDF Commerce

Joe Juliano

President & CEO |

MercuryGate International, Inc.

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Edna Conway

VP, Security & Risk Officer, Cloud

Infrastructure Supply Chain | Microsoft

Victoria Ma

Head of Digital and Innovation | Miebach Consulting

Dan Weinberger

CEO | Morpheus.Network

Tim Krauskopf

CEO | Motiv Power Systems

Krystal Jackson

VP of Supplier Management |

Mouser Electronics

Jeff Newell

SVP of Products | Mouser Electronics

Lindsey Trent

Co-Founder & President |

Next Generation in Trucking Association

Walter Pataky

SVP of Brokerage Sales | Nolan Transportation Group

Dana Magliola

Program Manager, Freight & Logistics | North Carolina Department of Transportation

Christine Barnhart

VP, Product Marketing & Go-to-Market |

Nulogy

Jason Tham

CEO | Nulogy

Henry C. Canitz

VP, Industry Strategy | (formerly with) Nulogy

Andy Tribble

Chief Transformation Officer | Omni Logistics

Nate Nevens

Director, International Business Services | Omni Logistics

Jim Blaeser

Chief Procurement Officer | Omni Logistics

Robert Mietus

Managing Director, Central | OMNIA Partners

Tim Holland

Managing Director, Contingent Labor Solutions | OMNIA Partners

Ara Arslanian

Senior VP, Private Equity | OMNIA Partners

Akhil Oltikar

Co-Founder & CEO | Omnics

Jason Milbrandt

Senior Director, Client Services | Open Sky Group

Mchelle Sodomka

Senior Director, Client Services | Open Sky Group

Eric (Mac) McPherson

VP, Client Services | Open Sky Group

Rebecca Janowiak

VP, Product Management | Optilogic

Mathew Witte SVP | ORTEC

Jay Judkowitz

VP, Product | OTTO Motors

Anurag Vaidya

Manager of Industrial Engineering | Outrider

Frankie Mossman

Chief Customer Officer | Overhaul

Pat Flynn-Cherenzia

VP, Enterprise Division | Overhaul

David Warrick

EVP, Enterprise Division | Overhaul

Chris Poelma

CEO | PCS

Steve Beverly

SVP of Financial Administration | Penske Logistics

Sandra Frances Scanlon

Purchasing Department Manager | Phoenix Composite Solutions, LLC

Brian Kava

CEO | PICKUP

Jared Simons

Senior Solutions Architect | Plantensive, a MorganFranklin company

Violet Jaramillo

Director, Senior Solution Architect | Plantensive, a MorganFranklin company

Kristen D’Amore Solutions Architect, PaaS & Lab Manager | Plantensive, a MorganFranklin company

Joseph Genova VP | Poly Print, Inc.

Mike Alkire

President & CEO | Premier Inc.

Kyle MacKinnon

Senior Director, Operational Excellence | Premier Inc.

Colin Bain

President of Direct Sourcing | Premier Inc.

Kimberley Kirton

SVP, Supply Chain | Princess Auto Ltd.

Jeremy Van Puffelen

President | PRISM Logistics

Shelly Salmon

Director of Operations, Baytown Export | Quantix

Jennifer de Souza

VP of Energy Solutions, Procurement & Leasing | Raymond Corporation, The

Alberto Lupano

SVP Group Supply Services Transformation | Reckitt

John Rattay

Chief Commercial Officer | Redwood Logistics

Emily Weiser

SVP of Sales | Redwood Logistics

Brian Laung Aoaeh

Founder & Co-Managing General Partner | Refashiond Ventures

Chris Shipp

VP of Sales | Reibus International

Mikko Kärkkäinen

CEO & Co-founder | RELEX Solutions

Peter Guinto

VP of Government Affairs | Resilinc

Rick Freeman

Director of Advisory Services Group | Resilinc

David Houser

Chief Revenue Officer | ReverseLogix

Chris Haynes

VP, Global Procurement | Rheem Manufacturing

Nancy Jorgensen

Senior Director, Global Procurement | Rimini Street, Inc

Steve Keener

Partner | River Rock Advisors

Tomasz Jamroz

Head of Technology and Operations | Roadrunner

Sanjay Sharma

CEO | Roambee

Lana Burrell, RPh, Ph.D

Head, Contract Development & Manufacturing Organization, Global Supply Chain | Roche

Justin Bailie

Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer | Rose Rocket

Jennifer Kaczmarczyk

VP, Brokerage Operations | RXO

Heidi Ratti

Chief Human Resources Officer | RXO

Paul Boothe

President, Managed Transportation | RXO

Muhammad Alam

President & Chief Product Officer, Intelligent Spend & Business Network | SAP

Valerie Blatt

Global Head for Business Network Customer Success & Go-to-Market | SAP SE

Paige Wei-Cox

SVP, Chief Product Officer & Head of Business Network | SAP SE

Claire Sexton

VP of Sales | Scoutbee GmbH

Roger D. Blumberg

SVP of Global Marketing | Scoutbee GmbH

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Bryan Nella

Director, Account Management | SemiCab Inc

Thomas Kowal

President | Seraph

Tiffany Pankratz-Umbehr

Senior Managing Director, Head of Consumer

Goods & Retail | SGS Maine Pointe

Alfred Baumbusch

COO | SGS Maine Pointe

Carmit Glik

CEO | Ship4wd

Chris Preboth

VP of Logistics | Shipwell

Jerome Holbus

VP of Product | Shipwell

Zoya Ali Khan

Commercial Director, UAE | Simfoni

David Bush

CEO, Spend Automation | Simfoni

Harold Baro

SVP | SIMOS Solutions

Michal Yariv

VP & GM, Strategic Initiatives | Solera

Ron Harper

SVP Supply Chain & Logistics | Sonepar

Sarah Scudder

Chief Marketing Officer | SourceDay

Phil Oliveira

VP of Support Services & Supply Chain Management | Southcoast Health Systems, Inc.

Sean Webb

Director of Sales and Services, North America | Sparck Technologies

Ayman Shoukry

Chief Technology Officer | Specright

Laura Foti

Chief Marketing Officer | Specright

Matthew Wright

President & CEO | Specright

Nick Heinzmann

VP Research | (formerly with) Spend Matters

Jason Treida

SVP Clients & Partners | SpendHQ/Per Angusta

Tom Flynn

VP of Marketing | SpendMend

Heiko Schwarz

Global Supply Chain Risk Advisor | Sphera (formerly riskmethods)

Tiffanie Stanard

Founder & CEO | Stimulus, Inc.

Meagan Kinmonth Bowman

Founder & CEO | Stonehenge Technology Labs

Ryan Chan

VP Solutions Consulting | Supplyframe

Trevor Stansbury

Founder & CEO | Supply Dynamics, an Exiger company

Viviane Danemberg Gomes Licht

Head of Procurement and Logistics Inbound | SUZANO S.A.

Smitha Raphael

Chief Product & Delivery Officer | Synergy North America Inc.

Jason Mancuso

Product & Supply Chain Practice Director | Synkrato

Amin Sikander

President & Co-Founder | Synkrato

Brian Malinowski

VP of Business Development | TA Services

David Mascitto

Product Marketing Manager for Retail & E-Commerce Supply Chain | Tecsys Inc.

Jamie Miron

Director of Point-of-Use Delivery Tower & Platinum Healthcare Consultant | Tecsys Inc.

Khadar Mohammed

Business Solutions Architect | Tecsys Inc.

Doug Niemeyer

President & General Manager | TEKLYNX Americas

Tim Story

Co-Founder & Managing Partner | Third Axiom Solutions

Krenar Komoni

CEO & Founder | Tive

Mike Futch

CEO & President | Tompkins Robotics

Jeff Vaughn

Chief Commercial Officer | Trailer Bridge, Inc.

Mitch Luciano

CEO | Trailer Bridge, Inc.

Indie B. Bollman

Chief People Officer | Trailer Bridge, Inc.

Nick Reasoner

CEO & Founder | TransLoop

Danny Dever

Product Manager, RailSight Suite of Applications | TransmetriQ – Powered by Railinc

Melanie Burns

Director of Sales Strategy | Transportation Insight

Brian Broadhurst

SVP of Supply Chain Consulting | Transportation Insight

Jennifer Karpus-Romain

Executive Director |

Transportation Marketing & Sales Association (TMSA)

Josh Bouk

President | Trax

Sudha Chandrasekharan

GM | Trelleborg

Kelly Williams

Product Manager, Engage Lane | Trimble Transportation

Raj Subbiah

Head of Product | Uber Freight

Josh Ornstein

VP of Engineering & Product Development, Chief Architect | Vecna Robotics

Brent Stringer

CFO & COO | Verusen

Paul Noble

Founder & CEO | Verusen

Ross Sonnabend

SVP, Head of Product, Customer Success & Onboarding | Verusen

Quyen Nguyen

Co-Founder |

Vietnam Supply Chain Community

Richard J. Mansilla

VP, Global Procurement | Wabash

Stephen Spulick

VP, Supply Chain Management | Washington

Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

Julia Hoult

Senior Director of Logistics | Werner Enterprises

Amanda Prochask

Founder | Wonder Services

Kathy Mayerhofer

Chief Sales Officer | Xometry

Marissa Christensen

VP, National Sales | XPO

Jay Silberkleit

Chief Information Officer | XPO

Diana Brown

SVP, Sales Operations & Customer Experience | XPO

Charley Dehoney

VP | ZEBOX America

John Wirthlin

Industry Principal – Manufacturing, Transportation & Logistics | Zebra Technologies Corporation

James Lawton

VP & GM, Robotics Automation | Zebra Technologies Corporation

Kimberly Bradley-Hiatt

VP of Customer Experience | Zethcon, a Made4net company

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