36TH ANNUAL SEMINAR PRESENTED BY Wednesday, April 24th, 2019 Chicago’s Multi-Modal CSCMP CHICAGO, NASSTRAC, 8:00 am – 6:00 pm Supply Chain: and the TRAFFIC CLUB OF CHICAGO Air, Water, Rail, and Road Union League Club of Chicago
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George Abernathy Stephen Bindbeutel President Director of Product Solutions FreightWaves Truckstop.com
George Abernathy is President at Stephen Bindbeutel grew up in the Metro FreightWaves. In this role, George over- Detroit area. After graduating from sees all revenue generating activities Michigan State University with a degree for the company and is flanked by one in Economics, he moved to Atlanta to of the deepest benches in the freight join AT&T’s Leadership Development startup scene. Program.
Prior to joining FreightWaves,, Abernathy led the Transflo sales Bindbeutel joined Truckstop.com in Chicago as Director of Product and business development organization. He has also served as Solutions after spending nearly five years in the transportation President of Transplace during the company’s rapid ascension industry at Coyote Logistics. During that time he focused on into becoming a top 3PL, managing billions in North American understanding Carrier/Driver challenges, finding ways to make freight spend. Also at Transplace, he held the role of Executive the freight industry more efficient, and improving the digital Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and was a key products that helped carriers run their business. contributor in the company’s sale to Greenbriar Equity Partners in 2013. At Truckstop.com he will continue to work on improving digital service offerings, enhancing overall user experience, and will In addition to Transflo and Transplace, Abernathy has had an ex- lead the organization’s emerging technology and transportation tensive career that includes more than 30 years of supply chain market research. and transportation industry experience with carrier, broker, and technology companies. Capacity procurement and strategic bid- ding has been a hallmark of George’s career. Previously, George held senior management positions at NTE, Clicklogistics, Logis- Scott Grady tics.com, J.B. Hunt, and North American Van Lines. He earned a President B.A. from Assumption College in Worcester, MA. Rush Trucking
Scott Grady has been in the Transporta- tion Industry for over 32 years, he has Jim Bellinder spent over 28 years working in the auto- VP Cargo Sales motive industry providing Transportation United Airlines Cargo and Logistics solutions. He has been heavily involved in providing multi-modal Jim Bellinder is Vice President, United solutions to Mexico and was one of the first providers of through Cargo Sales - Americas for United Air- service transportation since 1985, including the first scheduled lines. He is responsible for all aspects just in time Intermodal service to the Mexico City’s Pantaco of United Cargo’s sales activity in the ramp for Chrysler and Ford Motor Company. Americas region and and plans and directs the work of United Cargo’s team Scott was the former Sr. Vice President for Landstar System, of sales professionals in the region. Inc. His past roles include Director of Automotive and National Sales and Senior Vice President of Corporate Sales Solutions Bellinder joined Continental Airlines in 1986 as a Cargo General at Landstar. Scott won Landstar’s Outstanding Management Sales Agent in Chicago. He progressed to Area Sales Manager, Achievement Award in 2008. He is currently the Chairman of The International Sales Manager, Regional Sales Manager and Transportation Sales and Marketing Association and won their Regional Sales Director before becoming Continental Cargo’s Executive award in 2015. Scott has sat on numerous boards of Director of Cargo Sales - Americas. Following the United- organizations and service companies of the last 20 years. Continental merger, Bellinder became Director of Cargo Sales - Americas then VP - Sales for United Cargo. Scott Grady holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management.
Bellinder received his BS from Florida Institute of Technology.
He is married with one son and one daughter. SPEAKER BIOS
Erik Hansen Jesse LaDousa Kansas City Southern Partner, Vice Rresident of Sales & Chief Customer Officer Marketing Intermodal Clientek
Erik Hansen joined Kansas City South- For over twenty years Jesse has been ern in 2014 as Vice Rresident of Sales building, maturing and managing soft- & Marketing Intermodal where he ware development teams; being the oversees the Intermodal Business Unit catalyst that produces repeatable in both the U.S. and Mexico. Erik has project successes. also since 2017 served on the Board of Directors of CSCMP, the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals. He is responsible for the total relationship between Clientek and its customers ensuring customer centricity and the success Erik’s background is in international shipping and transportation of their engagements while driving sustainable growth for the management having spent almost 25 years with the Danish organization. Jesse brings a passion for customer advocacy, gov- company, Maersk, including roles as CFO for subsidiaries in Asia ernance and management that helps Clientek execute its core and Latin America and latest as the CEO for Maersk Line’s sub- mission: the success of your project. sidiaries in Mexico and Central America.
Erik is multilingual and is fluent in Danish, English, and Spanish. Gary Lofgren Director of Intermodal Operations Jason Hilsenbeck J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc. President, LoadMatch, Former President of the Gary is a director of intermodal drayage Intermodal Association operations and one of three in the of Chicago Chicago area for J.B. Hunt. He joined J.B. Hunt in 2005 after coming from a career in airline operations and is currently responsible for fleets Jason Hilsenbeck is the founder of both totaling over 450 tractors, 500 class A driving employees and a the LoadMatch & Drayage.com web- team of 40 management employees. sites, now 19 years online. Prior to the websites, Jason started his career in 1994 in the intermodal business doing operations These tractors, drivers, and managers are separated into four and sales at Genex, a 3rd-Party Intermodal Marketing Company distinct fleets that all service inbound and outbound freight to and OTR brokerage in Chicago. Jason graduated from Western the Chicago area rail yards and are based in Chicago, Illinois; Illinois University with a degree in Transportation & Distribution. Grand Rapids Michigan; Fort Wayne, Indiana and Indianapolis He is a member of IANA, TIA, NCBFAA, and a former President Indiana. currently Director of the Intermodal Association of Chicago. Automotive. Gary’s Chica-go based fleet, representing over 300 sleeper equipped tractors, operates in a region-al type environment reaching up to 400 miles from Chicago, while the remaining three fleets all work in a standard local type environment utilizing Mike Joseph day cab tractors that allow drivers to return home daily. All fleets Vice President, Sales are made up of company owned tractors and company employed Transplace drivers.
Outside of J.B. Hunt, Gary is an adjunct faculty member at Lewis Mike has over 25 years industry experi- University in Romeoville, Illinois where he teaches various cours- ence in the Supply Chain and Technology es in transpor-tation and supply chain. He also serves as a board space, with a background in ERP and member of the Midwest Cargo Security TMS. Currently employed by Transplace Council. as VP, Sales; focusing on TMS and service solutions for shippers. Past experience has been with LeanLogistics/BluJay in the TMS space, Baan (now Infor) in the ERP space. Mike started his career in in Operations for a mid-west Retailer.
Mike has been an industry volunteer for Food Shippers of America, as well as a CSCCMP Roundtable Board Member and President and a 2017 CSCMP Annual Conference Track Chair. SPEAKER BIOS
Julie Luna Mike McClelland Senior VP and Senior Vice President Chief Commercial Officer Knight Transportation (Swift) FEC - Florida East Coast Railway As Senior Vice President Knight Transportation, Mike is responsible for the Knight Supply Chain Solutions group Julie has a wealth of experience in the and Strategic Account Management. rail and transportation industry, and we are looking forward to growing and Knight Supply Chain Solutions provides better serving you under her leadership. a full suite of supply chain services that leverage the Knight Network and products to provide asset and non-asset based Prior to joining the Florida East Coast Railway team, Julie was solutions for their customers. Mike and his team provide logis- the CCO of XPO Logistics, Inc./Pacer International where she led tics services, dedicated trucking, truck brokerage, and supply a North American sales team responsible for selling the portfolio chain management services with operations through Grand of products including intermodal, over-the-road, less-than-truck- Rapids, Michigan. Mike has P&L responsibility and oversees all load, last mile, expedite and other services. Before that, she was operations and sales activities. with Union Pacific Railroad where she advanced through a highly successful and multifaceted career that included serving on the Mike has 30 years of industry experience. He was a co-founder Chemicals, Intermodal, Logistics, and Automotive business units of Concentrek which was acquired by UTi in 2005. He then spent and culminated in her role as Vice President and General Manager, 10 years at UTi and was responsible for Contract Logistics and Automotive. Distribution for North and South America. Prior to Concentrek, Mike spent nine years at Yellow Freight in operations, industrial engineering and sales and 5 years at Schneider Logistics and Schneider National in various operations and account manage- John Marchese ment leadership roles. Sr. Director, Business and Mike has a BS from Iowa State University in Logistics and he Sales Development holds an MBA from Cornerstone University. He is a frequent DHL Express speaker at Business, Association and Industry events. Occa- sionally he is found at the ice rink or golf course (the later as a John Marchese has been with the orga- participating member especially on weekends) as he plays the nization for 30 years and has held Sales role of the “head cheerleader” along with his wife as their three Leadership positions in Field Sales, kids are heavily involved sporting activities and hockey events in Corporate/National Accounts, Sales Grand Rapids and beyond. Operations, Business and Sales Development.
Previous management assignments include integration of Air- borne Express and DHL US Sales Structure and Customer Migra- Bob Moran tion. Leadership of the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic Sales Regions President for DHL US including Corporate and Field Sales teams as Senior First Logistics Commercial Director. More recently John managed US Sales Operations for DHL Express based in Plantation Florida and Bob joined First Logistics as a partner currently John is leading DHL US Business and Sales Development. in April 2015. His experience as an entrepreneur and corporate CEO make In his current role John leads a team responsible for structured him the ideal company President. Thirty Sales Management Coaching, responsibility for DHL’s large cus- plus years in the logistics industry give tomer Implementation Team and DHL’s ecommerce vertical strat- him unique qualifications to lead our egy development as a member of DHL’s Americas Ecommerce company’s strategic growth initiatives. Council reporting to Senior Vice President of Sales for DHL US. As a recognized industry leader, Bob has earned the Interna- tional Warehouse and Logistics Association (IWLA) professional designation of CWLP (Certified Warehouse Logistics Professional). Bob has also been teaching warehousing courses within the industry since 1992. Recognized by the IWLA as the recipient of the 2009 Distinguished Service and Leadership Award, Bob’s commitment to the industry is absolute.
At First Logistics, Bob focuses on executive leadership, strategic direction, finance, sales growth and operational performance. SPEAKER BIOS
Ankoor Patel Adam S. Rod Director Assistant Commissioner of Business Development, Planning Strategy & Growth Chicago Department of GE Transportation Aviation
Ankoor Patel is Strategic Business Adam Rod is the Assistant Commis- Development Director for GE Transpor- sioner of Planning at the Chicago tation Digital Solutions, now a Wabtec Department of Aviation, which owns company, leading digital strategy, alliances, and acquisitions. and operates O’Hare and Midway Airports. He has been with the Department since 2000, and his many responsibilities range A graduate of GE’s Experienced Commercial Leadership from formulating new projects to advising various stakeholders Program, he’s held roles with GE Corporate management con- to managing cargo affairs. sulting, GE Ventures, and GE Power, leading growth strategy and new business incubation - most recently creating a logistics He has gained an international reputation and enjoys exploring technology joint venture with Africa’s largest freight transport issues and sharing experiences with the aviation and transporta- company. tion industries whenever he can. His affiliations cover numerous organizations, including ACI, AAAE, CMAP, OECD, USDOC, and Ankoor’s holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the USGBC. Although Mr. Rod has had a special love for big airports University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon since his youth, his professional background covers broader ur- University. ban studies and economics, including a geography degree from the University of Chicago.
Prior to his post at the Department of Aviation, he was an aide to Priya Rajagopalan Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and before that a corporate real estate manager. Chief Product Officer FourKites
Priya Rajagopalan is a seasoned busi- ness leader with nearly two decades Gail Rutkowski of experience in product management, Executive Director marketing, and strategy. Previously, NASSTRAC Priya was the head of Product Manage- (National Shippers Strategic ment for the Metadata Business Group Transportation Council) of TiVo Corporation, where she had global responsibility for its video, music, books, and games metadata products. While at A veteran of more than 30 years in TiVo, she led geographic expansion for video metadata across the transportation industry, Gail has Europe and the APAC region, and spearheaded multiple acquisi- experienced both sides of the industry, tions in search & recommendations and predictive analytics. from shipper to carrier, from small shipments to truckloads, from Prior to TiVo, Priya worked at Flexera Software, where she led domestic to international. Her experience runs the gamut from product management for the award-winning FlexNet suite of private fleet management with Quaker Oats and Belden Wire ERP-adjacent enterprise applications and launched a new product and Cable, to truckload sales with C. H. Robinson, to transporta- line aimed at high-tech device manufacturers. In her prior career tion management with Thomas & Betts and Medline Industries. in consulting, she advised leadership teams at technology firms Gail started and ran the logistics services division at AIMS such as Hewlett-Packard, Emerson, 3M, and ADP. Logistics before leaving to start Wabash Worldwide Logistics, helping clients expand their 3PL service offerings, and manage Priya has an MBA with a specialization in finance, marketing, and their truckload services. strategy from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Gail is a past president of NASSTRAC and a member of their the University of Madras in India. Executive Committee. Selected as NASSTRAC Member of the Year in 2001, 2005, and 2012 she became Executive Director in 2014. Gail has been a frequent speaker at a number of industry conferences and has published articles in Traffic World and LQ Magazine. In 2005, Gail was named one of the top 50 people in Logistics by World Trade Magazine. SPEAKER BIOS
T.J. Schaefer, Ph.D. Ron Sucik Head of Global Network Intermodal Rail Expert Partner Management Ex TTX and BNSF and Strategy project44 Ron retired from TTX as Director Market Development after more than 30 years T.J. (Thomas) Schaefer, Ph.D. is present- of service in the rail industry with TTX ly Vice President of Global Carrier and and BNSF. Network Partnerships at project44, Inc, where he was formally Head of Strategic Programs. Ron has established and maintained relationships in the industry that includes members of the railroads, steamship lines, port Prior to project44, he was Assistant Vice President of Transport authorities, transloaders, motor carriers, intermodal marketing Management Systems at ABB Inc., an industrial company oper- companies, retail industry, real estate development companies ating in more than 100 countries with about 132,000 employees, as well as the Railcar component suppliers and Railcar builders. where he was responsible for global implementation, knowledge base, and development for transportation management systems. These relationships have allowed him to keep aware of the emerging trends and issues within the Transportation industry. Previously within ABB Inc., he held leadership roles in supply Ron does consulting projects for himself as RSE Consulting and chain network design and transportation management. He has as an Associate of ACT Research. After gathering the information over 16 years of experience in supply chain management and and writing the Trade Flow Studies while at TTX he later collabo- logistics functions across a variety of industries. He also has a rated with The Tioga Group and helped write their CIGMA Ph.D. with emphasis in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Study (Containerized Intermodal Goods Movement Assessment). and he is a Board member for the Chicago Roundtable of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP). Ron continues to make presentations at the annual Rail Equipment Finance Conference in La Quinta, CA as well other Transportation Conferences when asked. Ron holds a Bachelor of Science of BA from Elmhurst College and a MBA with emphasis on Marketing from Illinois Benedictine University. Troy Spolum Ron and his wife Robin live in Naperville, Illinois. Senior VP of Intermodal Operations Hub Group
Troy Spolum is Senior Vice President of Intermodal Operations at Hub Group. Jeff Tucker Along with overseeing the U.S. and Tucker Company World Wide Canada Intermodal Operation, his team is responsible for network equipment management and optimiza- Jeff Tucker is third generation CEO of tion for Hub Group’s container assets. Tucker Company Worldwide, America’s oldest privately held freight brokerage. Troy joined Hub Group in 2006 after graduating from Michigan Jeff is immediate past chairman of the State University and has advanced within Hub Group through his board for the Transportation Intermediaries previous experiences in the Pricing and Business Development Association (“TIA”). He has testified business units. His unique path has earned a wealth of experi- before Congress, and has advised on ence in process development, driving operational efficiency and national highway safety matters, at the request of the FMCSA successfully leading through organizational transformations. Administrator. Jeff is a member of the NITL board – the largest shipper organization – and chairs its Highway Transportation Troy is currently furthering his education by pursuing an MBA at Committee. He has co-authored TIA’s “Carrier Selection Frame- the University of Notre Dame. work ” and his commentaries appear in Journal of Commerce, Logistics Management, Transport Topics, Defense Transportation Journal, American Journal of Transportation, Logistics Journal and The Wall Street Journal. SPEAKER BIOS
Bob Voltman CEO TIA - Transportation Intermediaries Association
TIA is the voice of the brokerage-based third party logistics industry. TIA is the largest association representing the interests of 3PLs in North America.
Mark Yeager CEO Redwood Logistics
Mark Yeager is the current CEO of Red- wood Logistics since the beginning of 2018 - formally was the Chief Executive Officer of Simplified Logistics LLC since August 30, 2017. Mr. Yeager is a Senior Adviser at CI Capital Partners. Prior to joining Simplified and CI, he served as the President of Hub Group, Inc. from January 1, 2005 to August 8, 2015 and served as its Chief Operating Officer from May 2004 to August 8, 2015. During his 23 year career at Hub, he served as the President of Field Operations for Hub Group Inc. since July 1999 until Janu- ary 1, 2005.
He served as a Division President, Secretary and General Coun- sel of Hub Group Inc. from November 1997 to June 1999 and served as a Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel from March 1995 to November 1997. From May 1992 to March 1995, Mr. Yeager served as Hub Group Inc.’s Vice President-Quality. Mr. Yeager joined Hub Group Inc. in 1992 and served in a variety of roles. Mr. Yeager was an associate at the law firm of Grippo & Elden from January 1991 to May 1992 and an associate at the law firm of Sidley & Austin from May 1989 to January 1991.
He served as Vice Chairman of Hub Group Inc. since November 4, 2008 until August 13, 2015 and served as its Director from May, 2004 to October 9, 2015. Mr. Yeager holds a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University in 1989 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana University in 1986.