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He started his career 1978 as an apprentice with DB Schenker in Stuttgart and worked in Domestic Transport and Events until 1985 when he transferred to DB Schenker in Sydney, Australia as manager ocean freight. 1991-1998 he was General manager NSW heading an organisation of more than 100 staff.

1999 -2001 Ron was the global director of the Sydney Olympic Games for DB Schenker and secured the logistics service contract for the Sydney Olympic Games.

2002-2019 Ron was appointed Managing Director and CEO of DB Schenker Australia/New Zealand. Under his leadership he built up an organisation with more than 1200 staff and 25 locations for Air freight, Ocean freight and Contract Logistic activities. He was also a member of the APAC management team to steer the organisation in Asia.

2007-2019 Ron was a member of the German Australian Chamber of Commerce and a Director and Chairman for the organisation. He was awarded the prestigious Grand Cross of the Order or Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2016 for supporting the bilateral trade and recognition of the German Industry in Australia.

He is also a non-executive director for the National Intermodal Company in Sydney and a member of the AICD (Australian Institute of Company Directors).

Since 2019 Ron is a consultant for the logistics industry and opened his own company RMK Consultancy Pty Ltd specialising in supporting the Freight industry with his expertise in:

• Overall Management consulting and supporting CEO’s and upper management.
• Merger and Acquisitions
• Executive search and recruitment
• Change Management – restructuring – improving profitability.

He started his career 1979 as an apprentice with DB Schenker in Wels and passed through all departments of a forwarding company. After one year with TNT-Express Worldwide in 1993 as Depot General Manager he returned to DB Schenker. Kurt managed various departments and went all the way from department manager via branch manager up to a Board Member for Air- and Ocean Freight, Contract Logistics and Sales and became 2013 CEO from DB Schenker Southeast-Europe. 2016 he was appointed CEO from DB Schenker Germany & Switzerland. In 2019 he had a special assignment to found a region in Central Asia & Caucasus area. 2020 until 2022 he held managing director positions with Austrian trucking & forwarding companies and strengthened its experience with large fleet management with truck fleet management and European intermodal traffic.

During his career within DB Schenker he kept always a certain focus on contract logistics, management & set up of sales units as well as overall concepts for transport solutions. Management of outsourcing projects is one of his key competencies.

Kurt opened his own consultancy business, KL-Logistik & Management Consulting e.U. in Wels, Austria in November 2022. He is supporting the transportation and forwarding market as well as the industry with his long lasting experience in all kind of transport & logistics affairs as well as management topics. He is also active in Executive search & recruiting as well as M&A affairs in Austria and Southeast-Europe.

Kurt is aside his professional tasks deputy chairman of the Austrian logistics association VNL (Verein Netzwerk Logistik) and is lecturer at the university of applied sciences in Steyr/Austria.

Lauro has over 23 years experience in the transportation industry, with heavy exposure to both carriers and shippers. He started his career at the Inter-American Freight Conference in Rio de Janeiro / 1987-1991, became part of Sea-Land team also based in Rio / 1991-1998, joined Kuehne + Nagel in São Paulo / 1998- 2010, and during 2011 worked for Wilson Sons nvocc arm, also based in São Paulo.

Lauro worked with carriers/shippers and maritime authorities during his years at the IAFC Rio; held different positions in Sea-Land – pricing & sales management functions; At Kuehne + Nagel where he spent most of his years he started as Sea-freight Manager and for the last 4 years acted as National Sea-freight Director Brazil. At Wilson Sons he held the position of Commercial Director.

Experience

• Carriers tariff making, maritime authorities studies and supporting documents, shippers liaison to carriers – IAFC
• Pricing Manager exports East-Coast South America to the world – Sea-Land
• Commercial Director inbound/outbound Brazil – Sea-Land
• Procurement, carriers negotiations and strategy, global agreements with multinationals, operational responsibility – Kuehne + Nagel
• Commercial Director (pricing/marketing) and agents’ agreement negotiations – Wilson Sons/Allink

Lauro was born and raised in Brazil where he obtained his bachelor degree in Economics.

In 2012 Lauro will start operating under his own logistics consulting company with main focus in Executive Search and Recruitment, Logistics Consulting (including interim project management) and Mergers and Acquisitions within the global transportation and logistics industry. In this capacity, LV consult will act as a representative office of WCL.

Fouad started his career in transportation with Lufthansa Cairo.

After immigrating to Canada Fouad joined Schenker in Montreal where he started his career in Freight Forwarding in the Airfreight Division, from there on Fouad held various Operational and Managerial positions mostly with Global Freight Forwarding firms such as Panalpina and Kuehne Nagel.

His field of expertise range from Airfreight, Oceanfreight, Logistics, Warehousing and Distribution , to business acquisitions and integration.

The last position Fouad held in Freight Forwarding before moving on to the Logistics Consulting Business was as VP for the Ontario Operations of Delmar International, a Canadian Multi National Freight Forwarding and Customs Brokerage firm.

His Career Service was with:

Egypt

• Lufthansa Cairo – 3 years

Canada

• Schenker Montreal – 3 years
• Panalpina Montreal – 24 years
• Kuehne Nagel Montreal – 9 years
• Delmar Intl, Toronto – 4 years

Karl-Heinz started his career in International Freight Forwarding as an apprentice in Hamburg, Germany in 1975.

During his career Karl-Heinz held various management positions for International Freight Forwarding Companies such as

• Kuehne & Nagel
• Emery / Menlo Worldwide
• DB Schenker
• Geodis Wilson

in the USA, Brazil and Chile, concentrating on Ocean-, Air and Project Freight.

Reiner started his career in shipping during apprenticeship 1973-76 at Hapag-Lloyd Bremen/Hamburg. After finishing obligatory service with German Navy he continued with Hapag-Lloyd Bremen and strongly involved in business with Latin America, specially South Amercia West Coast.

After some time in London and Canary Islands at Hapag-Lloyd Agencies he joined the Ultramar Group in Chile where he continued his career in several managing positions, like at Antofagasta as Branch Manager and Santiago as Operations Manager of the Tramp Ship Agency network in Chile as well as Operations Manager of Transmares Naviera Chilena and Operations and Logistic Manager of Green Andes Chile, the Sales and Logistics office of Evergreen Line.

Since 2015 he is Manager of container depots in the central zone of Chile (Valparaiso, San Antonio and Santiago) for DYC Group, which also involves Logistic activities.

Christos comes with experience from 8 nations, 4 continents and over 25 years at the global air cargo and forwarding industry, during his professional Journey he was exposed to many different markets and cultures of doing airfreight business.

He is specialized in various airfreight sectors such as: advanced air freight consolidation management, neutral airfreight wholesale, ULDs utilization and equalization, gateway planning, airfreight product design to implementation, networking, and to effective selling & sourcing for the professional airfreight forwarder.

Having risen by a family from the air cargo industry, he has a passion for the world of airfreight, logistics and its people.

Christos founded the Air Cargo Group in Shanghai on 2003 – a global association of leading neutral airfreight wholesalers and consolidators.

He was also the former founder and managing partner of “China Cargo Alliance “( 2001) a network of local and independent Chinese airfreight forwarders, as well founder and CEO of NAC Consolidators Limited ( Hong Kong ,Shanghai 2004) a neutral airfreight wholesale consolidator , that was later merged ( 2010 ) to a leading global NVOCC.

During his early days in Europe with his family business, he established airfreight organizations across eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans, and he has represented various global freight forwarders at the region, as well several airlines as a GSA. He also has a vast experience in mega and sports events logistics, and he was appointed as an airfreight adviser for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.

He studied in the UK airfreight forwarding and logistics management, holds IATA,BIFA,ASM,DGR certificates ,and he was privileged to work as an intern with AEI – Air Express International in Europe and USA.

Christos lives in China for the last decade, offering corporate air cargo logistic advisory solutions and training to major global logistics organizations through his consulting firm Air Cargo Plus Limited.

He is heavily involved in networking activities being the founder and CEO of Neutral Air Partner and co-founder and managing partner of the Air Cargo summit.

Christos comes with experience from 8 nations, 4 continents and over 25 years at the global air cargo and forwarding industry, during his professional Journey he was exposed to many different markets and cultures of doing airfreight business.

He is specialized in various airfreight sectors such as: advanced air freight consolidation management, neutral airfreight wholesale, ULDs utilization and equalization, gateway planning, airfreight product design to implementation, networking, and to effective selling & sourcing for the professional airfreight forwarder.

Having risen by a family from the air cargo industry, he has a passion for the world of airfreight, logistics and its people.

Christos founded the Air Cargo Group in Shanghai on 2003 – a global association of leading neutral airfreight wholesalers and consolidators.

He was also the former founder and managing partner of “China Cargo Alliance “( 2001) a network of local and independent Chinese airfreight forwarders, as well founder and CEO of NAC Consolidators Limited ( Hong Kong ,Shanghai 2004) a neutral airfreight wholesale consolidator , that was later merged ( 2010 ) to a leading global NVOCC.

During his early days in Europe with his family business, he established airfreight organizations across eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans, and he has represented various global freight forwarders at the region, as well several airlines as a GSA. He also has a vast experience in mega and sports events logistics, and he was appointed as an airfreight adviser for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.

He studied in the UK airfreight forwarding and logistics management, holds IATA,BIFA,ASM,DGR certificates ,and he was privileged to work as an intern with AEI – Air Express International in Europe and USA.

Christos lives in China for the last decade, offering corporate air cargo logistic advisory solutions and training to major global logistics organizations through his consulting firm Air Cargo Plus Limited.

He is heavily involved in networking activities being the founder and CEO of Neutral Air Partner and co-founder and managing partner of the Air Cargo summit.

Leslie started his career in COSCO Container line in Qingdao in 1995, then one year later he joined Evergreen Line’s agency office and took over varied roles in position of West bound, Vessel Planner, Import department and East bound department.

In 2001 he joined TMT, the Joint Venture between Maersk and China Railway, to support the block train operation for Maersk Line and other shipping lines with presence in China inland markets.

In 2002 he joined Maersk Logistics (now Damco) in Qingdao, responsible for FNG unit (NVOCC business by branding of DSL Star Express). In 2003 he was promoted to North China ITM head, overall responsible for NVOCC and Airfreight business as PNL owner. In 2006 he relocated to Tianjin as Tianjin/Beijing branch manager. The key success was to build up Beijing as airfreight hub in North China. In 2007 Leslie returned to Qingdao as Maersk Logistics North China operation manager, managing all suppliers’ procurement , commercial relationship and performance.

In 2008 he transferred to Brigantine Group, the affiliate of Maersk Group, as North China General Manager, to manage three joint ventures of Brigantine Group with local leading depot operators in Qingdao, Tianjin, Dalian.

After fifteen years successful experience in shipping/logistics industry, in 2011 Leslie started his own business to provide executive search service to a number of global logistics and shipping lines, e-commerce Logistics companies in China with expansion to Asia Pacific area upon customers’ assignment. Leslie establish broad people connection across shipping, freight forwarder, 3PL in Greater China Area.

Leslie received MBA (2001) and bachelor degree (1995) from Shanghai Maritime University and now he lives in Qingdao, China.

Alvaro started his career as Foreign Trade Manager for the agent of Intertrans in Bogota and right after two years he joined Panalpina Welttransport Gmbh in Frankfurt as group manager for Latin America.

After four years’ experience in Germany he was expatriated to Mexico to assume the exports management responsibilities at Panalpina in Mexico and after three years promoted to Executive director for Panalpina Mexico based in Guadalajara.

In 2000 he joined DanzasAEI in Venezuela as Country Manager and during that time DanzasAEI was rebranded as DHL Global Forwarding the Freight Forwarding division for the Deutsche Post group.

From 2005 until 2008 Alvaro was nominated Country Manager for DHL GF Colombia and in 2009 promoted to Vice-president for the Andean region that includes Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.

From 2012 until 2013 he cooperated with  Senator International to open their own Colombian operation and position the company in the local market.
From 2014  and up to now Alvaro is a consultant for the Foreign Trade and Forwarding industry in Latin America and an active representative of WCL network in the region.

Tad Harada  graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University in 1976.

Worked for MOL Logistics from 1976 to 1986 including assignments in LAX and ORD for 6 years.

He joined Emery worldwide from 1987 to 1999 and worked at the headquarter in Redwood City in California in USA for 7years(1990-1997) as the global sales director.

After working as Eastern Division Manager of Emery worldwide Japan(1997-1999), He joined Circle International Japan Inc as the president.

Circle was bought by EGL in 2000 and EGL was merged by CEVA in 2007.

Tad served as the president of Circle/EGL/CEVA for 21 years until the end of 2020.

He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University and got the Bachelor degree of Law in 1976.

He  has   customs brokerage license in Japan.

He  has had the license of executive search officially permitted by the ministry of Labor.

Reto is a senior Logistics- and Supply chain executive.

His career took him through 10 countries on 3 continents. For 36 years in Kuehne + Nagel originally he focused on Ocean freight operations and development reaching the regional Ocean freight position for the Middle East and East Med. In a later phase dedicated to general management successfully leading the Mexican organization for 9 years and the South- and Central America Region for 6 years.

Besides the operational, organizational and development tasks Reto was confronted with M&A as well as restructuring processes during his extensive career.

People and cultural questions, development and coaching of talents as well as aligning global goals and standards with local customs and culture has always been of particular interest to him during all his years in Logistics Management.

Hans has started his career in the international freight forwarding industry in 1974.

His main focus has been Intercontinental Logistics, incl. Airfreight and Oceanfreight as well as Project/Heavy Lift Transport and Supply Chain Solutions.

During his career Hans has also spent 3 years in Asia, 4 years in the USA and 2 years in France.

Hans held senior positions at:

• Kuehne + Nagel – 20 years
• Danzas (today DHL) – 4 years
• REWICO Group – 3 years
• Geodis – 2 years

In 1999 Hans founded his own consulting company in Hamburg (WCL WilConLog e.K. – See www.wilconlog.com).

Effective Jan 1, 2017, Hans has been a founding partner of WCL – Worldwide Consultants in Logistics GmbH as majority shareholder and acting as Chairman to support the Managing Director. See company presentation at www.wcl.de.

Within WCL, Hans will continue to focus on Intercontinental Logistics and will cover

• Executive Search / Recruitment
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Strategic Management Consulting (incl. Logistics Consulting Projects)
• Implementation of NVOCC Projects
• Special focus on the Region Americas

Hans also held honorary positions as Chairman of the Maritime Committee of Freight Forward Europe (FFE) as well as Member of the Board of the Hamburg Freight Forwarders Association (VHSp).

After a Liner-Shipping apprenticeship and a Business Administration Diploma at the University of Hamburg Martin started his career at Hapag-Lloyd in Hamburg. Before changing from the carrier to the Global Logistics Service Provider industry (GLSP) he held various senior positions at Hapag-Lloyd in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and London.

Since 1998 Martin worked in regional and global positions for SDV-Geis (today Bollore Logistics), Damco and Rhenus Logistics. He left Rhenus where he was responsible for the European Air + Ocean Business in Jan 2016 and joined WCL as a partner.

Working in the Logistics Industry for more than 30 years Martin has gained comprehensive experience in Ocean- and Airfreight including complex supply chain solutions and he participated in various M&A projects. As WCL Partner Martin will strengthen our M&A sector and will also be a senior sparings partner for our clients when talking about executive search as well as strategic consultancy.

Mathias started his carrier in the wholesale and foreign trade business in 1975 as an apprentice at Biesterfeld & Co, Hamburg. He joined Kuehne & Nagel USA in New York in 1983 as Manager of Operational Controlling Airfreight.

From 1986 until 2003 Mathias worked for Olympus Optical, Hamburg in different senior management positions, including General Manager Logistics and Supply Chain.

In 2003 he joined Medion AG, Essen as Director and MD International After Sales Services. Followed by the merger with Lenovo in 2012 Mathias took additional responsibility as Director Service Europe Central for Lenovo Commercial/Consumer business.

His specialties during his professional life include:

• Reengineering of procurement and supply operations
• Logistics operational process flows
• IT process definition
• Set up of International teams and turn-around management

With effect from December 2017 Mathias joined WCL as Partner in order to serve logistics and wholesale companies in the field of supply chain processes, recruitment and other business related matters.

André started his career in Human Resources in 1991 at ALDI Nord. Throughout the following years he moved into more sophisticated HR-roles in different industries and finally joined P&O Nedlloyd in Germany in the beginning of 2004 and – subsequent to the acquisition by AP Moller-Maersk – entered Maersk Line in 2006 as deputy HR-Director for Germany. He was seconded to the Russian Maersk-Line organisation in 2008 as a Cluster HR-Manager (Russia, Baltics and Finland) and took over responsibility for the German Damco HR-Organisation upon his return from Moscow in 2009. At AP Moller-Maersk he became an externally certified PI Analyst in 2006 and used the Predictive Index (PI) and Logic Index (LI) assessment tools in any recruitment process. After he left Damco at the end of 2014, André took over country HR-leadership roles within the food distribution and manufacturing industry. André joined WCL as Partner in June 2019.

During his more than 25 years tenure in Human Resources, André gained substantial experience in a broad variety of HR subject matters like recruiting (including functional regional and country leadership roles) and driving and implementing various change initiatives which were mainly based on restructuring initiatives or M&A scenarios. André is a trained systemic business coach and systemic Change-Manager as well as a certified KTC®-practitioner (team-coaching-tool).

After having finalized the basic education at the Gymnasium in Lesum/Bremen with his Abitur, Günter started his commercial career in shipping business as an apprentice with Hapag-Lloyd AG in Bremen/Hamburg. Thereafter he moved for 4 years to London and in 1986 to Jakarta. In 1994 he joined UASC (S.A.G) in London and moved in 1998 to Singapore for more than 10 years. During his term in the shipping company he did serve in all shipping line fields from line management, administration and top management.

He held senior positions such as line manager, general manager, director, regional VP from 1980 until 2009. In 2009 he moved back to Germany and managed UASAC (NWE) GmbH – the interests of UASC (S.A.G) in Germany, Holland and Belgium – as the manging director until 2011.

He left UASC and set up his own consulting company under the name of GK-Consulting with effect from March, 2013 and entered partnership with WCL in order serve logistic and shipping companies in the field of management processes, recruitment and other business related matters.

Christian has a proven track record of 42 years in International Freight Forwarding and Logistics across Europe, USA and Asia.

He started his career 1980 in Hamburg as an apprentice with DB Schenker. Over the next 30 years , he worked in various positions in Los Angeles, Hong Kong and India, where he served as Managing Director until 2012.

From 2013 onwards , he held various senior positions with Multinational Logistics providers such as JAS ( Executive VP Asia ), Geodis ( Managing Director FF Germany ) , Fr Meyer`s Sohn ( CEO Asia ) and Agility ( CEO North Asia ) .

His area´s of expertise include :

• P&L Management
• Procurement
• Strategic, organisational and operational planning / execution
• Change Management Programs
• Commercial / Key Account Management
• Business Development
• HR Performance Management / Training
• Leading high performing teams

Christian relocated from Hong Kong to Hamburg in January 2022 and is looking forward to strengthen WCL`s  high performance team as a partner.

Thomas started his career in 1986 as IT Director at Union Air Transport, directly after successfully graduating in economic science from the University of applied science in Mainz.

Over a period of more than 25 years, he held several senior positions at Union Air Transport, UTI Worldwide, Schenker and Kuehne + Nagel.

His focus and expertise have been mainly in IT, organizational transformation and sales driven business development on a global scale.

For Schenker Thomas initiated and started the rollout of Schenker’s forwarding system PROCARS in Germany.

At UTi Worldwide, Thomas was a leading member of the global IT roadmap and “uTrac/eMpower” development team and part of the Enterprise IT Leadership Team.

In addition he held the regional VP and CIO position for EMENA, followed by global roles such as VP Enterprise IT and Client Facing IT Systems.

Since 2009 he was in charge of UTi’s global datacenter (NOC) located in Frankfurt.

In 2010, he joined Kuehne + Nagel in Hamburg as SVP for Customer Solutions with global responsibility for IT based client solutions and the transformation to a customer oriented philosophy with cross business unit alignment.

After a Sabbatical Year he founded  “Thomas Fuchs iBOSS – Consulting” in October 2013 and joined the WCL family as representing office Frankfurt effective November 1,  2013.

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Dr. Lynn Ribton-Turner holds a Doctorate in Industrial Psychology and has worked in talent management and search and selection for the past 20 years, specializing in the Global Freight Forwarding Industry. She has placed senior candidates in South Africa and the Sub-Saharan region.

Prior to that Dr. Lynn Ribton-Turner was employed in the shipping and Freight Forwarding Industry in South Africa in an Executive position, heading up sales teams.

After her university studies, she travelled abroad and lived in the USA, United Kingdom, Europe and Far East for ten years before returning to her native South Africa.

She is respected in South Africa within these industries for her professionalism, integrity and in-depth knowledge of all aspects of shipping and the freight forwarding market.

Ginés has several years´ experience as a Senior Recruiter, Headhunter and Executive Director for recruitment and executive search agencies worldwide.

He provides a deep understanding of transport & logistics global market that helps him to serve the most demanding transportation companies with top management and executive profiles around  the EMEA and LATAM regions.

Now leading Translead Executive Search and being also an active representative of the WCL network in Spain, he worked for leading multinational human resource companies as Adecco Group, Randstad Professionals and Hays Recruitment Experts Worldwide. He is currently using his broad knowledge in the Logistics market and Executive Search in order to provide to the end client the best candidate that will cover it´s needs.

Please feel free to contact him for a confidential conversation about how he can help to progress your career or indeed recruit a first class member to join your team.

Ginés has several years´ experience as a Senior Recruiter, Headhunter and Executive Director for recruitment and executive search agencies worldwide.

He provides a deep understanding of transport & logistics global market that helps him to serve the most demanding transportation companies with top management and executive profiles around  the EMEA and LATAM regions.

Now leading Translead Executive Search and being also an active representative of the WCL network in Spain, he worked for leading multinational human resource companies as Adecco Group, Randstad Professionals and Hays Recruitment Experts Worldwide. He is currently using his broad knowledge in the Logistics market and Executive Search in order to provide to the end client the best candidate that will cover it´s needs.

Please feel free to contact him for a confidential conversation about how he can help to progress your career or indeed recruit a first class member to join your team.

Cindy has more than 20 years of experience in Consultancy, Project and Program Management covering industries from Supply Chain, Logistic to Banking.

Cindy, a Malaysian, has lived and worked in Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany and Switzerland in both regional and global roles. A graduate with a Bachelor degree in Mathematical Science (double major in IT and Management ) from The University of Western Australia.

She started her career in IT software development in Supply Chain Industry before moving on to Consultancy and Project Management. During her career in Singapore & Hong Kong, she spend 6 years with DHL as Regional IT Manager responsible for all IT projects, Regional PMO Manager  first in establishing IT focus Project Management Methodologies then for the entire Organization and finally as Regional Implementation Manager responsible for Operations Setup for Regional Clients. She was selected to attend The Young Leader Training Program, a co-training program with the Executive MBA school of National University of Singapore and was awarded the Best Contributor Award.

With her strong IT and Project Management Background, Cindy landed a job in Citibank managing major regional strategic projects before being promoted to the Head of Premium Client Services for Asia Pacific.

Alfred born in Cologne/ Germany started his career in Freight Forwarding and Logistics in 1979 as apprentice. Since more than 20 years he now lives in South Africa.

Over the last 10 years he mainly worked in West Africa. ( Ghana, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Sierra Leone) and has travelled the continent extensively.

Alfred has excellent knowledge in Project Logistics, and in the past managed various Project Verticals in the region for international companies in   Mining, Power, Energy, and O + G. He is solution focused, and connected well throughout the SSA and WAF – region.

He strongly believes in ‘ local content ‘ in West Africa, and over the years was involved as Advisor to local small and medium sized transport and clearing companies.

Alfred joined the WCL team in March 2017 and services any customer and network requests concerning the Sub-Sahara & West Africa region.

Christa is a true “expatriate”: born in India, she lived in two different countries in Africa (7 years in Uganda and Kenya), in Europe (3 years in France, 14 in Germany), and in Asia (9 years in India, Taiwan and Hong Kong) before settling in Bangkok with her husband and two daughters in July 2001.

Very adaptable to multi-language and multi-cultural environments, Christa has developed a strong ability to understand and work with Asian and European professionals alike.

Graduated from Inchbald School of Design, Christa has worked as a designer in Taiwan, Germany, and Thailand and has also expanded her skills to run her own export business from Germany. This involved skills in international trading, as well as intercontinental logistics and transport services.

Kris started his career in the logistics industry in Belgium in 1983.

He moved to Miami, USA  in 1985 where he opened up Mercator Shipping / Flamingo Line operating as a local Miami based NVOCC.

From start up in Miami he grew this company, as owner and CEO,  into a leading regional organization with main focus on USA and Latin America / Caribbean representing multiple NVOCC’s around the world. In this function also developed the Latin American market for Vanguard Logistics and opened various Joint Ventures in the region together with Ecu Line.

Eventually Mercator Shipping / Flamingo Line fully merged with the Ecu Line group. Kris became an equity partner in Ecu Line and in cooperation with the two other founding shareholders, managed and expanded the company to a key global player in the NVOCC logistics field.

In 2007 Ecu Line was sold to and became a division of Allcargo Logistics, India.

Kris became group CEO and Group Managing Director of the company and further increased its global footprint to over 200 offices worldwide. Under his management the group increased its turn over to over US$ 700 million and increased its profitability over 400%.

In November 2015 he opened up DE WITTE Consulting LLC which joined WCL.

Areas of expertise:

• Strategic planning and execution
• Leadership development
• Management and structure of global NVOCC activities

Anita has worked in the international freight forwarding industry for almost 10 years and has a Bachelor Degree majoring in International Business and Trade.

In 2003 Anita started her career at Kuehne+Nagel’s Regional Headquarter in New York, where she has started to learn the Seafreight Industry and was responsible for Imports from Europe and Asia. She then moved on to become a Business Analyst and Integration Manager for Customer Solutions, managing projects for large Clients from various industries that improved their Supply Chain processes.

Before moving back to Germany in 2011, after living abroad for almost 8 years, Anita had started her own company in the U.S. working as a Logistics Consultant and representative for WCL since 2009.

Anita has joined the WCL Germany team in early 2011, while still holding a part-time position with Kuehne+Nagel’s Corporate Customer Solutions Team, working on new developments.

In 2016 Anita moved to Miami, FL where she became part of the WCL U.S.A. team.

Within WCL, Anita will concentrate on specific projects, incl. the administration of WCL’s website.

Rüdiger “Rudy” Mack has over 40 years of shipping experience – including 35 years with Germany’s major global container carrier Hapag-Lloyd.

Rudy Mack Associates belongs to an extensive global network of transportation-related companies, and has close relationships with its leaders and a comprehensive financial and market knowledge.

Rudy currently sits on the Board of Directors for various terminals and is a founding member of GLExperts.

Samuel Israël is an industry veteran with 35 years of global experience in Logistics and Supply Chain. Samuel, a French citizen, has acquired superior knowledge in the international trade environment having lived and worked in Europe,in the Americas and more recently in the Middle-East .

From 2000 to 2012 as Regional CEO for DHL Global Forwarding he has built the major logistics organization in Latin America with a revenue exceeding USD$1.5 billion in 2011. During his tenure, Samuel has driven mergers and acquisitions, integrations and massive organic growth.

In 2013 Samuel joined Damco,the logistic arm of the Maersk Group to first lead its Latin America region out of Panama and then the newly formed region of IMEA ( India,Middle East and Africa ) based out of Dubai .

Samuel is now back in the Americas to leverage his vast experience and support logistics organizations in their transformation and growth journeys.

Fluent in Spanish, English and French, Samuel holds a Master’s degree in Linguistics from the University of Provence in France and has completed the Senior Executive Program  from the IESE Business School.

Tom has started his career in the international freight forwarding and transportation industry in 1983.

His focus throughout his career has been in the intercontinental logistics with extensive experience in Sales, Ocean, Air and Supply Chain Solutions and has traveled extensively throughout the world implementing structures and procedures as well as sales. During Tom’s professional experience he has held senior positions with major forwarding companies including SVP Ocean Services and VP of Sales. Companies include

• Kuehne & Nagel
• Schenker
• Exel/DHL
• LEP International

His specialties during professional experience include

• Organizational structures and shipment processes of ocean shipments at the national and branch level
• Directing the roll out and training of operational systems
• Procurement of ocean freight nationally and globally
• Management and structure of ocean LCL gateways both inbound and outbound
• Managing national sales structures including both local and global sales

Since 2008 Tom has successfully run his own consulting company, TPD Associates in New Jersey with specialties in the following.

• Executive search and recruitment
• Management consulting
• Mergers and acquisitions

Chuck McDaniel manages a private consulting practice specializing in the field of Supply Chain Visibility. Having retired after 28 years in Supply Chain management with Procter and Gamble, Chuck has expertise in all aspects of logistics and planning.

Chuck has worked in Supply Chain digitalization, Inventory Optimization, Market Forecasting, and most recently, global visibility platform design and implementation.