DC Velocity - April 2019

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North American dry bulk carrier A&R Logistics has named Greg Smith vice president of import/export services. A&R launched its export packaging and warehousing business for plastic resin in 2018. … InVia Robotics, a next-generation warehouse automation robotics company, has hired Kristen Moore as chief marketing officer. … Technology company Beckhoff Automation LLC has named Kevin Barker president. … Jeffrey Chang has been appointed president of Evergreen Shipping Agency (America) Corp., the

North American general agent for Evergreen Line. … MonarchFx, a logistics service and supply chain technology provider, has welcomed Chris Talley as vice president of product development and deployment. … Design Interactive Inc., a supplier of augmented and virtual reality-based fleet maintenance training solutions for the transportation industry, has announced that Kay Stanney, its founder and CEO, is among 86 U.S. and 14 foreign members newly inducted into the 2019 class of the National Academy of Engineering. … Freight management specialist Ceva Logistics has strengthened its ocean freight team with the appointment of Claus Svane Schmidt as head of less-than-containerload product. … Third-party logistics and multimodal transportation services provider C.H. Robinson has named Robert “Bob” Biesterfeld chief executive officer. … Voxware, a provider of cloud-based voice and analytic supply chain solutions, has appointed Katherine Ross to its board of directors. … Transportation and logistics services giant XPO Logistics Inc. has expanded its board of directors by naming

AnnaMaria DeSalva to
the newly created posi-
tion of vice chairman of
the board and appointing
Marlene Colucci as a new
independent director. …
Transportation and gov-
ernment relations expert Jennifer Cohen has been
named director of policy and legislative affairs by the
Port of Los Angeles. … John Feldmann has informed
Kion Group AG that he will step down as chairman of
the company’s supervisory board on May 9. The board’s
nomination committee has proposed that Michael
Macht and Tan Xuguang rejoin the board as sharehold-
er representatives. Kion Group AG is a German mul-
tinational manufacturer of material handling equip-
ment. … Port Tampa Bay has welcomed
Mark “Clay” Clayton Hollis III as its new
chief of staff. … The Transportation
Institute at the University of Denver has
elected four new members to its board
of directors. They are Gary Crowther,
managing director of supply chain sales,
North America, for Canadian National
Railway; Michael Frey, president of Pacific GeoSource;
Tim Strauss, vice president of Air Canada Cargo;
and Beth Whited, executive vice president and chief
human resources officer of Union Pacific Railroad. …
Llamasoft, a global supplier of supply chain design and
decisioning solutions, has added two executives to its
senior leadership team. They are Sandra Moran, who
will serve as senior vice president and chief marketing
officer, and Slimane Allab, the company’s new senior
vice president and general manager of Europe, the
Middle East, and Africa. … Echo Global Logistics Inc.,
a provider of technology-enabled transportation and
supply chain management services, has named Paula
Frey chief human resources officer. …

DSC Logistics, a logistics and supply chain management services provider and a CJ Logistics company, has promoted Michelle Dilley to chief operating officer. … Peak-Ryzex Inc., a provider of end-to-end supply chain, mobile workforce, and retail solutions, has appointed Sally Lehnhardt chief information officer and Laura Kaspar global vice president of human resources. … The Transportation Intermediaries Association, a trade group for North American third-party logistics professionals, has appointed three new vice presidents. Matt Mantione is the new vice president of membership, while Chris Burroughs and Will Sehestedt have both been promoted to vice president of government affairs. … Freight forwarder Magnate Worldwide has appointed Dante Fornari chief executive officer. … NexusFx has welcomed Stephen Tallevi as chief commercial officer. A new business unit of consultancy Tompkins International, NexusFx builds and manages direct-to-consumer channels for CPG (consumer packaged goods) brands. … UPS has named Dominic Porporino president of UPS Canada. … To strengthen its global network, airport ground handling services specialist Worldwide Flight Services has promoted Mike Duffy to executive vice president, innovation and