About
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” - Muhammad Ali For the past 35 years I have had the great fortune to experience Supply Chains from all vantage points. I was a management team member in Operations during the early days of the 3PL industry. This was the powerful training ground that resulted in building one of the first SaaS Supply Chain solutions. From there I traveled the globe working with teams from all cultures and backgrounds running a multi-billion dollar Supply Chain. Now I have one of the greatest jobs on the earth leveraging all the years of knowledge, networks, personal connections, and most importantly the scars and mistakes to ass…
Experience
Managing General Partner
Present
Investor/Advisor: Alaiko, Capstone Logistics, Foxtrot.io(Descartes), ISEE, LeafLogistics, Levadata (Banneker Partners), Lineage Logistics, LLamasoft (Coupa), Lumina Analytics, MacroPoint (Descartes), Mercado Labs, nShift, OnRamp Financial, Pelicargo, Perishable Solutions (LineageLogistics), Resilinc, RPA Labs, Sandymount Technologies (Alfa Laval), Seyo, Shipday, Shipmonk, SixFold (Transporeon), Tenstreet, Tive, Transplace (Uber), Transporeon, True Load Time (Tenstreet), Work Truck Solutions, ZeKju * (Exited Investments) Supply Chain Ventures is an angel and early-stage venture capital partnership. Our preferred investments are in young, revenue producing companies using information technology to enhance global marketing and supply chain management. Besides capital, we bring significant entrepreneurial, operating and investment experience to help our portfolio companies be successful. We are particularly interested in companies based on on-demand about and/or open source technologies, w…
Non Executive Board Member
Baxter Planning · Austin, Texas, United States
Present
World-class service leaders know that ensuring the right part at the critical moment is what supports exceptional customer service. The best of those leaders rely on Baxter’s end-to-end predictive platform to ensure an exceptional Service Supply Chain.
Non Executive Board Member
Tenstreet, LLC · Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Present
Tenstreet modernized recruiting in the trucking industry through its suite of applications that allow fleets to widen their applicant funnel, increase the speed of hiring, ensure compliance with trucking regulations, and improve the application experience for drivers. Tenstreet maintains a network of more than 5 million drivers and processes 17 million job applications per year for its 3,700 fleet customers. Tenstreet’s platform of solutions auto-populates drivers’ applications, streamlines recruiters’ day-to-day responsibilities, and simplifies the employment verification process. Since 2006, millions of drivers have used Tenstreet’s platform to quickly and securely apply for their next job.
Non Executive Board Member
Capstone Logistics, LLC · Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Present
Capstone is a North American supply chain solutions partner with more than 550 operating locations, 17,000 associates, and 60,000 carriers. We have capabilities in freight management, warehouse and distribution center support, last mile delivery, supply chain analytics and optimization, and more. Our integrated, end-to-end logistics solutions uniquely position us to help partners reduce warehousing and transportation costs.
Former Non Executive Board Member
Linnworks · London Area, United Kingdom
Power your entire ecommerce operation – full inventory management from promotion on hundreds of marketplaces, to order management to warehouse management with full control of shipping orchestration – from a single, centralized platform.
Former Non Executive Board Member
nShift · Oslo Norway/Stockholm Sweden
Introducing nShift, the Global Leader in Cloud Delivery Management Solutions Bringing more than 53 years of shipping and returns management experience through the merger of Unifaun, Consignor and Returnado, nShift unites under leadership of Lars Pedersen as new CEO. With over 100+ pre-built third-party integrations into e-commerce and other shippers’ most critical IT systems and an unmatched carrier library delivering connectivity into over 800+ carriers, nShift offers customers an end-to-end cloud platform to automate and optimize the entire delivery management process – from label creation to delivery tracking and last mile logistics to returns management.
Former Non Executive Board Member
TRANSPOREON Group · Ulm Area, Germany
Acquired by Trimble Inc (NASDAQ:TRMB) December 2022 TRANSPOREON is the leading global cloud platform for intelligent transport logistics. It creates a digital connection between shippers and carriers, achieving smarter, transparent and more cost-effective movement of goods around the world. By digitizing the entire logistics supply chain, it also enables real communication and collaboration across the worldwide shipper-carrier community.
Former Non Executive Board Member
Transplace · Dallas/Fort Worth Area
Acquired by Uber Technologies Inc. (NYSE UBER) November 2021 Transplace is a North American non-asset based logistics services provider offering manufacturers, retailers, chemical and consumer packaged goods companies the optimal blend of logistics technology and transportation management services. The company is the premier provider of managed transportation, consulting & TMS solutions; and intermodal, capacity solutions, and cross-border trade services. With operations centers located throughout North America, Transplace delivers integrated solutions tailored to meet in-country and cross-border supply chain needs. The company is recognized among the elite 3PLs for its proven ability to deliver both rapid return on investment and consistent value to a customer base ranging from mid-market shippers to Fortune 500 companies.
Former Non Executive Board Member
Sandymount Technologies · Greater Boston Area
Acquired by Alfa Laval AB (XSTO:ALFA) January 2021 Sandymount is a process technology company. We’re based in Massachusetts USA and focus on helping beer manufacturers around the world reduce the cost of exporting beer to new markets using our Revos™ high gravity beer technology. Our Founder, Ronan was born in Ireland and studied mechanical engineering at University College Dublin before heading to MIT to continue his studies in Mechanical Engineering. Ronan’s Master’s and Ph.D. both focused on desalination. It’s here where he came up with the idea for separating water from beer to make the beer less expensive to transport.
Former Vice Chairman of the Board
LLamasoft, Inc. · Ann Arbor, Michigan
Acquired by Coupa Software Inc (NASDAQ:COUP) November 2020 What Makes Us Tick? You do! We love helping our customers design thriving supply chains. LLamasoft enables organizations around the world to model and optimize their supply chain operations for major improvements in cost, service, sustainability and risk mitigation. Our team of industry-leading supply chain experts and consultants are driven to make supply chain optimization easier, better and faster, so you can make the world a better place. We continue to innovate with an aggressive development roadmap including new solutions for supply chain visibility, planning, and predictive analytics.
Former Non Executive Board Member
LLamasoft, Inc. · Ann Arbor, Michigan
Acquired by TPG Capital September 2017
Education
Ferris State University
Bachelors of Science, Business Management
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