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 SPEAKER BIOS 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