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.

Rob McIntosh

SVP, Global Fulfillment, Logistics and Trade

Dell

Peter Chen

CEO & Co-Founder

Covariant

Peter is the CEO and co-founder of Covariant, a leading AI Robotics startup. Covariant is building universal AI that allows robots to see, reason and act on the world around them. Before founding Covariant, Peter was a research scientist at OpenAI and a researcher at the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab, where he focused on reinforcement learning, meta-learning and unsupervised learning. Peter has published over 30 academic papers that have appeared in top AI and machine learning conferences including the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), and the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).

Andrew Laudato

EVP & COO

The Vitamin Shoppe

Nidhi Gupta

CEO & Co-Founder

Portcast

Nidhi Gupta is CEO and Co-Founder of Portcast, a Singapore-based logistics tech start-up that aims to make global supply chains dynamic and efficient using cutting-edge technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) and geospatial data. Portcast is committed to building the next generation of logistics operating systems in order to make highly accurate predictions on how cargo moves across the world. As an experienced strategy and logistics professional, Nidhi has over a decade of leadership and C-level consulting experience in Asia Pacific with the Deutsche Post DHL group. In her most recent role as Senior Director of Engineering & Manufacturing Sector she was responsible for developing the growth strategy of the sector and leading transformational supply chain strategies for customers across Asia Pacific. Bringing with her a wealth of experience, Nidhi is passionate about digitisation and innovation in the supply chain and logistics industry. In 2017, she was Entrepreneur in Residence at Entrepreneur First – the world’s leading talent investor – in Singapore where she met her business partner and co-Founder, Dr Lingxiao Xia. Realising they had a mutual appreciation of global logistics, they started Portcast in 2018.

Hamaad Akmal

Head of International Operations & Global Logistics

GOAT Group

Hamaad leads GOAT's international operations and global logistics. Over the past 2.5 years, Hamaad has led GOAT's expansion into Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia as GOAT aligns itself with customers and partners across the globe. GOAT is the global platform for the greatest products from the past, present, and future. Since its founding in 2015, GOAT has become the leading and most trusted sneaker marketplace in the world and has expanded to offer apparel and accessories from select emerging, contemporary and iconic brands delivering products to over 30 million members across 170 countries. Prior to this, Hamaad held similar executive leadership positions at Sonance, iPort, and Gateway. Hamaad holds an MBA from the University of California, Irvine and when not working loves spending time with his family and being outdoors.

Abhijit Ganguly

Managing Director

Goodyear Ventures

Based in Akron, OH, Abhijit Ganguly is the managing director of Goodyear Ventures, responsible for leading the venture fund. In his past roles, Abhijit led Goodyear’s Corporate Incubator focusing on IOT-enabled solutions businesses. Before joining Goodyear, Ganguly was responsible for driving growth initiatives in West Africa and Canada for a manufacturing company. Abhijit holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Jadavpur University in India and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in Hanover, NH, USA. He has co-authored two articles on Business Model Innovation & is the winner of the 2015 Maurice Holland Award for his contributions in the field of Business Model Innovation. Outside of work, Abhijit enjoys playing his acoustic guitar, cooking and golfing.

Benjamin Gordon

Managing Partner & CEO

Cambridge Capital And BGSA

Benjamin Gordon is the Managing Partner for Cambridge Capital, a leading investor, advisor and partner for compnies in the supply chain and technology sector. Benjamin has invested in Bringg, XPO, ReverseLogix, Liftit, Parcel Perform, Everest, and a host of other leading supply chain companies. In addition, he has served on the boards of many of these portfolio companies. Please see www.CambridgeCapital.com. Prior to Cambridge Capital, Benjamin built BG Strategic Advisors (BGSA), the most active investment bank focused on transportation and logistics. BGSA and its principals have worked on over 50 deals totaling over $10 billion of transaction value. Please see www.BGSA.com. Prior to BGSA, Benjamin founded 3PLex, the Internet solution enabling third-party logistics companies to automate their business. Benjamin raised $28 million from blue-chip investors including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, BancBoston Ventures, Con-Way, and Ionian. 3PLex has since been sold to Maersk. Prior to 3PLex, Benjamin led strategy projects in transportation and technology at Mercer Management Consulting.

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.

Marina Hadjipateras

General Partner, Co-Founder

TMV

Marina Hadjipateras is the Co-founder and General Partner of TMV - a leading early stage venture firm backing early stage founders building businesses beyond the bottom line. Marina has led many of TMV’s logistics and transportation investments, including Nautilus Labs, ShipsKart, Portcast, and Transmute, in addition to heading up the firm’s work around reimagined sustainable solutions. Prior to TMV, Marina served as VP of Investor Relations for Dorian LPG, where she led the in-house roadshow for a $135M raise on behalf of the 150-year-old maritime business (NYSE: LPG). Marina also spearheaded restructuring at Dorian and oversaw key areas of operations pertaining to company scale, compliance and private-to-public transition. Marina formed Filotimo Partners, in order to build out the private investment arm for family, which included creating a next-gen investment plan and deploying a multitude of venture investments on behalf of the company. For nearly a decade, she has served as vice chair of the INTERTANKO Environmental Committee, where she works closely with the IMO to create enduring, innovative solutions that positively impact the ocean and environment. In 2018, Marina received the NYOT Innovators and Disruptors award for venture capital and she also serves as a mentor for Endeavor: a leading high-impact entrepreneurship movement around the world and is an advisor for Hatchub which connects emerging innovators to solve global problems. She is a board member of Welcome Baby and sits on the board of the North American Marine Environmental Protection Agency, where she has been an active member since 2010. Marina is a graduate of The United States Merchant Marine Academy, where she received her STCW Certificate, and holds a BA from Georgetown University. As an investor and business leader, she is an avid champion of LGBTQ+ rights and is passionate about helping build the next generation of companies committed to building a brighter, more diverse and sustainable tomorrow

Peter Jorgensen

Partner

Maersk Growth

Peter is a Partner at Maersk Growth, the venture arm of A.P. Moller - Maersk, and has spent more than 24 years within the shipping and logistics industry. After gaining his Master’s Degree in Business Administration and Business Law, Peter joined the Maersk Group and the majority of his career has been within Corporate Finance, Infrastructure Investments and Commercial Business Development in developed and emerging markets. In his leadership positions he has driven change and inspired teams across Africa, Middle East, Europe and Asia. Following 16 years abroad, living in 3 countries and working on projects in +30 countries, Peter returned with his family to his native Denmark to help establish Maersk Growth in 2017. In his role as an investor, Peter looks to partner with entrepreneurs and businesses with the mission to digitise, democratise, and decarbonise supply chains through new business models and technologies. Peter has led a range of the 35+ company investments that Maersk Growth have undertaken since 2018, including Afresh, which is leveraging AI to revolutionise perishable ordering to reduce food waste whilst increasing sales; ISEE, a technology company providing autonomous driving solutions; and Prometheus Fuels, turning CO2 into net zero carbon fuels. He’s a father of three and his other personal passions include making multi-course dinners for friends and family and pruning the garden."

Mark Manduca

Chief Investment Officer

GXO Logistics

Mark Manduca’s career as a top-ranked analyst spans senior positions with leading investment banks, including Citigroup in London, where he served as Managing Director in Equity Research and led transport research activities. Earlier, he spent eight years with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he led the business services, leisure and transport research teams. Prior to GXO, Manduca consistently led the top-ranked European transport research teams for close to a decade, as determined by Institutional Investor. In 2020, he received the most votes individually across all sectors and regions in the European Institutional Investor survey and was named the No. 1 European Transport Research Analyst for the eighth consecutive year.

Jennifer Kobus

VP, Transportation & Logistics

Ulta Beauty

Jennifer Kobus is the VP of Transportation at Ulta Beauty. She is an executive member of the Supply Chain Leadership team. In her role, she is responsible for developing the team's strategy, leading agile operations, and influencing strategic enterprise initiatives. She is also responsible for defining the team's roadmap, developing strategy and processes to support omnichannel capabilities, and developing a diversified carrier portfolio to support an agile environment. She has been with Ulta Beauty for 5 years. Previous to this, she held roles at Batory Foods, UCI-FRAM AutoBrands, Dean Foods, and GLS Corporation. She holds a Master of Business Administration in Business Administration and Management from Roosevelt University and a Bachelor's Degree in Secondary Education from DePaul University.

Dawn Salvucci-Favier

CEO & Chief Product Officer

Greenscreens.ai

Dawn Salvucci-Favier brings more than 28 years of transportation management industry leadership to Greenscreens.ai. She has spent the past 20 years leading Global Product Strategy & Management at major Transportation Management System (TMS) providers including Manugistics, JDA Software, Shippers Commonwealth, RedPrairie (all now Blue Yonder) and most recently 3Gtms, Inc. In each of these roles Dawn was able to develop and execute a vision and strategy for delivering industry-leading technology solutions to the Logistics market. During her time at Shippers Commonwealth, Dawn was President & Chief Operating Officer where she had full P&L management responsibilities for the $6 million, value-added service provider of logistics solutions and continued in a leadership role of SVP & General Manager for the RedPrairie On-Demand TMS business unit that resulted from the sale of the company to RedPrairie. She also brings extensive 3PL & Shipper Logistics operations experience having also spent time as Director of Logistics Services for NFI Interactive Logistics and starting her career in the inbound transportation management function at Staples, Inc and The TJX Companies.

Sean McCartney

Chief Supply Chain Officer

StockX

Victoria Sun

Principal

Playground Global

Victoria Sun is a principal at Playground Global. In 2021, she was named as one of nine women shaping venture capital by The Wall Street Journal. She is fascinated by markets where growing datasets are finally coming online and enriching companies’ unique “model” of the world, allowing insightful entrepreneurs to capture exponential value. She is drawn to commercializable scientific breakthroughs, data-as-an-asset software platforms, and products that solve some of the world’s most fundamental problems: food production and distribution, antifragile logistics and supply chain systems, preventing and curing diseases. Shortly after joining Playground in 2018, she sourced and led investments in areas such as logistics (Pandion, and Leaf), software infrastructure (EraDB), aerospace (Universal Hydrogen), synthetic/computational biology (Strand Therapeutics) and is also a board observer for companies such as Relativity Space and a stealth unicorn gene-sequencing company. Prior to Playground, Victoria worked on IPOs and mergers and acquisitions at Credit Suisse’s Global Technology Group in San Francisco. She received her bachelor's degree in Economics from UC Berkeley. As a reformed investment banker, Victoria now spends all her extra time consuming dark comedies and training her Shetland sheepdog, who is a very good boy.

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.

Raimund Paetzmann

VP Logistics Network Expansion and Real Estate

Zalando

Raimund Paetzmann is VP Logistics Network Expansion and Real Estate at Zalando SE in Berlin and focuses on developing a logistics network and is responsible for PMO, Real Estate Management, Architecture, Construction and real estate innovation. Raimund joined Zalando in 2017 to support the growth of the company's office, retail and logistics Real Estate portfolio. Previously joining Zalando he built and led the Amazon EMEA real estate team, which was involved in the strategic network planning and design of the initial European Fulfillment Network. (1999-2016) He has pioneered introducing new buildings and a new type of advanced e-commerce logistics network across Europe. He also contributed significantly to the new generation of European Fulfillment Warehouse types. Since June 2018, he has also been Deputy Chairman of the Logistics Real Estate Committee and Think Tank Member of the German Property Federation ZIA. as he is a Board Member of the German Brownfield Association DEBV.

Trevor Pawl

Chief Mobility Officer

State Of Michigan

Trevor Pawl is the Chief Mobility Officer for the State of Michigan, and leads Michigan’s Office of Future Mobility and Electrification. In this position, Pawl is responsible for working across state government, academia and private industry to grow Michigan’s mobility ecosystem through strategic policy recommendations and new support services for companies focused on the future of transportation. Prior to this position, Pawl served as the Senior Vice President of Business Innovation at the MEDC, where he led the official state programs for mobility (PlanetM), supply chain assistance (Pure Michigan Business Connect), export assistance (Michigan International Trade program) and entrepreneurial assistance (Michigan Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program). Before joining the MEDC, Pawl brought with him experience in supply chain matchmaking, having led the creation of the economic development program, Connection Point, at the Detroit Regional Chamber, which later became Pure Michigan Business Connect. Trevor has been named Crain’s Detroit Business’s “40 Under 40” and “50 Names to Know in Government”. He’s also been named Development Counsellors International’s “40 Under 40 Rising Stars of Economic Development” and the Great Lakes Women’s Business Council’s “Government Advocate of the Year”. Pawl holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Marketing from Grand Valley State University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Detroit Mercy.

Michael Ringsdorf

VP Transportation & Logistics

Mary Kay

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.

Joyce Cruts

VP Supply Chain & Operations

Acer Inc

Joyce Cruts is the Vice President of Acer America, responsible for the strategic direction, vision and performance of Supply Chain and Operations in Canada, United States and Latin America. Joyce relocated 11 years ago to the United States and she believes that her early career experiences led her to this moment, to be a successful global citizen and business executive. Having lived in multiple countries like The Netherlands, Italy, and Norway, just to name a few; speaking multiple languages, leading multiple roles primarily related to Supply Chain and Operations has given her a unique perspective for innovative change. Travelling for business around the globe in her role as purchase and procurement lead, learning and understanding how to negotiate and approach other cultures, has been another crucial factor to her success. Joyce is passionate about promoting sustainability and "green" supply chain methodologies to contribute to a higher level of social responsibility. She believes that Humankind has only ONE earth to share, so we must take care that our children can continue to live on this planet in peace and harmony. Joyce holds an Erasmus degree in Internal Economics and a Bachelor’s dual degree in International Marketing and International Management from Eindhoven University in the Netherlands.

Steve Sloane

Partner

Menlo Ventures

Steve is a partner at Menlo. He joined the firm in 2015 as an associate, became a principal in 2017, and a partner in 2019. He is focused on investments in Menlo’s Inflection Fund, which writes $20M-$40M lead checks into fast-growing Series B/C companies in the $3M-$15M ARR range. His primary focus areas are supply-chain technologies (Enable, Scout, 6 River Systems, Shipbob, Cloudtrucks, and Parade) and Insurtech (Sidecar Health). Prior to Menlo, Steve worked in growth-stage investing at Insight Venture Partners in New York and founded a YC-backed company in the social space. Steve graduated from Princeton University with bachelor’s degrees in both mechanical and aerospace engineering and a minor in robotics and intelligent systems. In his free time, he enjoys skiing, following the New York Giants, chasing around his toddler, and road biking.

Craig Harper

EVP, Chief Sustainability Officer

J.B. Hunt

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.