The Future of Logistics Is Here

Elena Bernardo

SVP Operations

HelloFresh

Elena Bernardo is Senior Vice President of Operations at HelloFresh US. In this role, she is responsible for Logistics, 3PL Operations, and Customer Care. Prior to HelloFresh, Elena was the Chief Operating Officer for OYO Homes US. She also spent a number of years with Amazon, where she joined their EU Operations team based in Luxembourg as Procurement Director, subsequently moving to Seattle to take on roles in Global Logistics and Transportation Services. In the latter role, Elena was responsible for Amazon’s Middle Mile Fleet. Prior to joining Amazon, Elena was an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Company based in London. She began her career with Goldman Sachs as a fixed income research analyst. Elena earned an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago and a BA in Economics from Brown University. She lives with her family in Seattle, WA.

Lily Shen

CEO & President

Transfix

Lily Shen is CEO & President of Transfix. She joined the company after more than two decades in Silicon Valley with a vision to build the world's most connected and intelligent freight platform. During her tenure, Transfix has built out a suite of products and services that further enable the company to harness the vast potential of the rapidly-evolving digital freight space. Since she joined, Transfix has significantly accelerated in growth across the board - more than quadrupling in revenue, and tripling in enterprise customers. Previously, Shen held numerous senior leadership positions at renowned companies such as eBay, Wealthfront and IDEO, and served as an advisor to leading global platforms including WeChat, Coupang and Mercari. At eBay she built new business lines and grew key verticals for the global marketplace. At Wealthfront, she was instrumental in launching one of the leading fintech platforms today, and at IDEO, she led the mobility and advanced technology practices. Under Shen’s leadership, Transfix has been named to named to Forbes’ “Next Billion-Dollar Startups” list, Forbes' list of America’s Best Startup Employers, the FreightWaves FreightTech 100, BuiltInNYC’s list of 100 Best Places to Work in NYC, and BuiliInNYC’s list of Best Midsize Companies to Work for in NYC. Additionally, Shen was named to Profiles in Diversity Journal’s Women Worth Watching in Leadership list. Shen earned a Bachelor of Science from New York University’s Stern School of Business and currently lives in her hometown of New York City.

Tanja Dysli

Chief Supply Chain Officer, U.S.

IKEA

Bob Beckler

CEO

TemperPack

Bob Beckler is the Chairman and CEO of TemperPack, the leading U.S. manufacturer of sustainable insulation materials used in cold-chain food and life sciences packaging and distribution. Bob is an executive with 35 years of experience in specialty chemicals, materials, and packaging. Prior to TemperPack, Bob had a 30-year career with WestRock, serving as President of the company’s global packaging business. He has served on boards of various public and private companies, including Verso Corporation, Wikoff Color Corporation, and MillRock Packaging Partners. Bob holds a Ph.D in Chemical Engineering (The Georgia Institute of Technology) and a B.S. in Chemistry (Duke University). He and his family reside in Richmond, VA.

Andrew Laudato

EVP & COO

The Vitamin Shoppe

Laura Behrens Wu

CEO & Founder

Shippo

Laura Behrens Wu is the CEO and co-founder of Shippo, a leading shipping platform designed for growing e-commerce businesses. Laura co-founded Shippo in 2013 to help commerce businesses succeed after experiencing difficulties with shipping for her own e-commerce store. Today, Shippo works with more than 120,000 merchants directly who rely on Shippo for their day-to-day shipping. Laura is passionate about making shipping easy and accessible for small businesses, empowering small businesses to be competitive in the marketplace, and has been recognized as part of Forbes' 30 Under 30 List and Inc.'s Female Founders 100 List.

Shekar Natarajan

President

Quiet Platforms

Shekar Natarajan is a transformative leader with a record of progressive, positive disruption and industry-standard-setting innovation for top Fortune 100 companies.    In his nearly 20-year career, Shekar has created an industry-standard last-mile beverage delivery system; re-engineered a grocery home delivery/ pick-up operating model; built and scaled grocery-shopping operations; created and piloted a distribution center drone program; built an automated direct-store delivery system; developed methodologies followed by the White House & FEMA; and enhanced visitor theme park experience through wearable RFID technology.   As AEO’s Chief Global Supply Chain Officer, Shekar has brought transformation to the specialty retailer to create a robust ecosystem of operations rooted in operational excellence, strategy, data analytics and partnership. Shekar's role was expanded in November 2021 to include CEO of newly acquired AirTerra and Quiet Logistics.

Sean Simpson

Principal

Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund

Sean Simpson has been a corporate venture capital investor since 2016. He started at GM Ventures where he led several investments before leaving to help build San Francisco-based WIND Ventures, the CVC arm of a Chilean Energy company. Sean joined Amazon’s Industrial Innovation Fund in July to continue supporting entrepreneurs that are solving the world’s toughest problems across customer fulfillment operations, logistics, and supply chain solutions. Sean has invested in a wide variety of startups in the Industry 4.0, Computer Vision, Cybersecurity, Supply Chain/Logistics, last-mile delivery, and electric vehicle spaces. Before entering the venture ecosystem, Sean was co-founder/CEO of AutoBike. Prior to his startup, Sean was a powertrain/controls engineer in the automotive and military defense industries. He has a BSME from Lawrence Technological University and an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Sean is also proud to have mentored several veterans through the American Corporate Partners mentoring program and also funds/manages an engineering scholarship at his alma mater Lawrence Tech.

David Guggina

EVP, Supply Chain

Walmart

Dave joined Walmart in February of 2018 leading the Operational Excellence team in the eCommerce organization. In 2019, he was given the opportunity to direct the eCommerce Product and Engineering organizations. In 2020, he took over responsibility for the Omni-Supply Chain Product and Engineering organization. Currently, he leads the Innovation and Automation space across the US business. Over the last four years, he’s had the good fortune to build and serve small agile teams who obsess over customers, associates, and delivering business results. These efforts have resulted in better customer service, simpler processes, and have helped drive everyday low costs within the supply chain. Before joining Walmart, Dave began his career in the brewing industry in 2007 where he worked on warehouse optimization and in canning operations for Anheuser-Bush. After this experience, he joined Amazon and became a leader at their first all-apparel fulfillment center. Within Amazon’s Fulfillment Operations, he held a breadth of leadership positions including in Inbound, Outbound, Quality Control, and on Subject Matter Expert and Customer Returns teams. In 2016, he transitioned to Customer Service (CS) Operations, to develop the first Amazon Flex CS team and to lead the global Virtual Customer Service (VCS) organization, including its product, programs, and operations. In this role, he supported the team as it scaled from 1.4k to 16k employees across 11 countries. In all of his roles, his focus is on empowering teams to simplify and standardize processes and to find new ways to improve the customer and associate experience.

Todd Greener

SVP, Global Supply Chain

Foot Locker

Todd Greener has served as Senior Vice President—Supply Chain since October 2018. Todd is responsible for customer fulfillment, distribution center operations, transportation, and private label operations across the Company’s 8 brands. Previously, Todd was Senior Vice President, Supply Chain at Advance Auto Parts and led distribution center operations, transportation, and enterprise safety/risk management. Prior to Advance Auto Parts, Todd spent over 20 years at General Electric including General Manager, Distribution Operations at GE Appliances and General Manager, Service Parts Supply Chain at GE Transportation. He also held supply chain and finance roles in GE Lighting, GE Corporate, and GE Aviation. Todd has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

Andrew Leto

CEO & Founder

Emerge

Andrew has been in the logistics industry since 2003 when he founded GlobalTranz after serving 5 honorable years in the U.S. Navy. Having built a reputation for providing some of the best technology in the industry, GlobalTranz quickly became one of the top-10 Truckload and LTL brokers in the U.S. with over a billion dollars in sales. Andrew also founded 10-4 Systems, a truckload and visibility platform which sold to Trimble in 2016. Currently, Andrew is focusing on his third endeavor – Emerge – a cloud-based shipping platform and marketplace helping logistics professionals to more efficiently procure and manage their overflow truckload capacity. Andrew resides in Phoenix, Arizona with his wife and two children.

Marv Cunningham

COO & CIO, Americas & Asia Pacific

GXO Logistics

At GXO, Marv Cunningham leads Operational Excellence, Information Technology and Safety for the Americas & Asia Pacific region, which includes North America, South America and Asia Pacific. In this role, Marv is responsible for the operational processes, technological capabilities and safety standards at more than 300 distribution centers — across numerous verticals — including aerospace, consumer products, personal technology, automotive and more. Marv’s team ensures that our employees can actively collaobrate with automation, robotics and artificial intelligence to exceed customers’ expectations every day. Prior to the spin-off and creation of GXO as the largest contract logistics company in the world, Marv served the XPO Logistics Supply Chain division as Senior Vice President of Operations. Before that, Marv was Senior Vice President for Hudson's Bay Company, a diversified global retailer with a network of both bricks-and-mortar stores and omni-channel platforms. Prior to that, he was Chief Supply Chain Officer at Rent the Runway and Vice President of Supply Chain Engineering at Target. He also held roles of increasing responsibility at Amazon. For more than two decades, Marv served his country as a U.S. Naval Submarine Officer and was selected for the Nuclear Enlisted Commissioning Program. He served on numerous submarines under the Commander of Naval Submarine Forces (CUMSUBFOR) to execute missions around the world. Marv holds a bachelor’s degree in nuclear engineering from Oregon State University and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon in finance and operations.

Caroline Troit

SVP, Operations

L'Oréal

Caroline Troit leads Operations for the Luxe division of L’Oréal North America. She has end-to-end operational responsibilities for a portfolio of American brands (Kiehl’s, Urban Decay, IT Cosmetics, Ralph Lauren, Youth To The People). In addition, she oversees the supply chain for all of L’Oréal’s luxury brands in US and Canada, including Lancôme, Armani, YSL, and several fragrance brands. Caroline started her career at L’Oréal 23 years ago and has successfully delivered large-scale projects such as an extensive portfolio simplification for Maybelline, the creation of an entity dedicated to beauty device production for L’Oréal. She has deployed sustainability initiatives, contributed to the modernization of Urban Decay and IT Cosmetics’ operations functions, and the doubling of the e-commerce volume the luxe business in the United States.

Dhruv Saxena

Co-Founder

ShipBob

Dhruv Saxena is the CEO and co-founder of ShipBob, a global omnifulfillment platform that supports over 7,000 ecommerce brands with their global network of 30+ fulfillment centers across the US, Canada, UK, EU, and Australia. Prior to ShipBoB, Saxena spent five years as a software developer at InContext Solutions. He holds both an MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.

Sean McCartney

Chief Supply Chain Officer

StockX

Itamar Zur

CEO & Co-Founder

Veho

Itamar Zur founded Veho based on the belief that getting a package should be a pleasure. After a failed delivery of a meal kit subscription led him down a customer service abyss, Zur realized that the experience he had anticipated for days fell apart in the last mile. Veho was built on this core insight: customer-first delivery experiences directly impact brands' customer retention and customer lifetime value. With support from a team of industry veterans from FedEx, Uber and Amazon, Zur and his co-founder Fred Cook have grown Veho to provide the most transparent, customer-centric, and flexible last-mile shipping solution for brands radically focused on first-rate customer experience. Veho has since raised over $300M in funding, through its Series B, expanding its technology, team and last mile solution market-by-market to more effectively service e-commerce partners. Prior to founding Veho, Zur held managerial positions at Monday.com and Procter & Gamble (P&G), where he developed the trial platform and supply chain for marketing the Gillette, Always, and Head & Shoulders brands to the Israeli Defense Forces, reaching 70,000 new customers annually. Zur holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and an undergrad degree from Tel Aviv University.

Erik Muttersbach

Co-Founder, Managing Director

Forto

Erik is a serial entrepreneur and experienced CTO with more than 10 years of experience in building software. In the past years, he has founded tech companies with a diverse focus, ranging from beacon technology for museums to big data cloud platforms. Having built three companies from scratch and consulted various tech companies and Venture Capitalists, Erik knows the ins and outs of the startup ecosystem. Erik has graduated from Technical University of Munich with a Master in Computer science. He also holds an Honours Degree in Technology Management from the Center for Digital Technology and Management Munich.

Yone Dewberry

SVP, Chief Supply Chain Officer

Land O'Lakes

Yone Dewberry is the SVP and Chief Supply Chain Officer for Land O’Lakes, Inc., a member-owned cooperative based in Minneapolis, MN. As Chief Supply Chain Officer, Yone leads all elements of Land O’Lakes vast supply chain operations, including strategy, talent management, manufacturing, engineering, supply and demand planning, transportation, warehousing, quality, analytics, and procurement. Prior to this role, he served as Land O’Lakes Sr. Vice President of Supply Chain and Procurement. Yone’s focus on transforming Land O’Lakes distribution models, accelerating service collaboration, redefining transportation strategy, and positioning in the art of innovation continues to position Land O’Lakes at the forefront of supply chain thought leadership. Yone has a broad background, which includes more than 12 years working as a global supply chain consultant with a variety of companies, including BDP International and KPMG, and 15 years with consumer products and chemical companies, such as Kraft Foods, Corning Glass and ARCO. Earlier in his career, Yone was in direct leadership positions for Kraft plants, including Entenmann’s Bakery. In 2019, Yone was named as the one of the 300 Most Influential African American Corporate Executives by Black Enterprise Magazine and has been featured in articles in Industry leading supply chain magazines. He is currently on the Board of Directors of Mortenson Company a $5B construction company. As a highly regarded strategist and developer of talent, Yone speaks at numerous conferences across the globe

Ramona Hood

CEO & President

FedEx Custom Critical

Ramona Hood is president and CEO of FedEx Custom Critical®, a leading North American transportation provider located in Green, Ohio. The company provides a range of transportation capabilities for expedite ground, temperature control shipments and industry specific solutions. The company provides 24/7 service throughout the United States, Canada and internationally, delivering hundreds of thousands of shipments per year. Hood oversees the FedEx Custom Critical executive leadership team and is responsible for the performance and strategic direction of the company. Hood brings more than 30 years of FedEx experience to her role, having most recently served as Vice President, Operations, Strategy and Planning. Hood started her career at FedEx Custom Critical in 1991 in an entry-level position, and worked her way up to hold various executive leadership positions at FedEx Custom Critical and FedEx Supply Chain. Her career path evolved through many areas of the company, including Operations, Safety, Sourcing, Sales and Marketing. Over time, she began offering innovative and strategic ideas that distinguished her from her peers. Hood not only brought unique approaches to the business, but she did so in a way that brought out the best in others. These leadership characteristics and values are ingrained through her past and current leadership roles at FedEx Custom Critical, as well as FedEx Supply Chain.

Santosh Sankar

Managing Partner

Dynamo Ventures

Santosh Sankar is a Founding Partner at Dynamo Ventures. Santosh has been an early investor in several distinguished supply chain technology startups including Stord, Gatik AI, and SVT Robotics. Prior to his career in venture capital, Santosh was a public equities analyst. Santosh started his first company, an IT support business, when he was 13 years old. Santosh was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 List in 2017.

Karen Betancourt

VP, Logistics

Cardinal Health

Karen Betancourt is the Vice President, Enterprise Logistics for Cardinal Health, managing logistics and transportation across the Pharmaceutical, Medical and Manufacturing pillars. She joined Cardinal from Walmart where she spent 18 months launching and building out their sort center network and leading teams in eCommerce transportation. Prior to Walmart, she spent 6.5 years at Amazon in a variety of roles. After launching both manual and robotic fulfillment locations, she moved into Amazon Transportation Services where she ran a large sortation center in Southern California and spent two years leading Amazon’s strategic transportation programs in both North America and Europe. Prior to joining Amazon, Karen spent 6 years in a variety of roles including marketing and customer experience at an industrial supply company and five years in various roles in retail management. Karen received a Bachelor of Science in Operations Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Professional Master of Business Administration from Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business. Since graduation from Georgia Tech and GSU, Karen has been involved with a variety of groups, including the Robinson Council of Young Business Leaders, Mentor Jackets, and served as a Fellow at the MovingWorlds Institute. She continues to strongly advocate the value and depth of the University System of Georgia and cheers for both teams in her new home of Delaware, Ohio with her husband Jean Paul and two daughters, Cecilia and Katerina.

Shawn Nelson

CEO & Founder

Lovesac

Craig Harper

Chief Sustainability Officer, EVP

J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc

Craig Harper is the Chief Sustainability Officer and Executive Vice President at J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. He joined the company in 1992 as Vice President of Special Commodities and, after five years, was appointed to the role of Chief Operations Officer. In 2020, Craig was named Chief Sustainability Officer.    In his role, Craig is responsible for leading the company’s sustainability efforts including initiatives involving electric and autonomous vehicles and other emerging technologies. He also leads driver hiring, orientation and safety programs, as well as fuel purchasing for the company.     Craig serves on the board of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance Standards Council, the Alliance for Driver Safety & Security, and the Arkansas Trucking Association.     Craig is a graduate of the University of Arkansas with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry and continued his education at the University of Tennessee where he earned a Doctor of Dental Surgery.