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  June 1st, 2021 | Written by

Global Traders on the Move: May-June Edition

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Having spent the past 15 years of his 35-year career in the supply-chain industry at Nashville, Tennessee-based GEODIS Americas, Anthony Jordan was recently promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the region. 

Trish Skoglund has filled the newly created role of Corporate Director of Mergers and Acquisitions at Crowley Maritime Corp., a Jacksonville, Florida-based logistics, government, marine and energy solutions company. 

Jolie Cosman is now Senior Business Development Manager at deugro USA, the Woodlands, Texas-based logistics and freight-forwarding company that is a division of German family-owned deugro. 

TrueCommerce, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based provider of trading partner connectivity, integration and unified commerce solutions, recently appointed Todd Johnson as President and Chief Operating Officer; Peter Spellman as Chief Technology Officer; and Andrew Porter as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. 

Logistics technology platform Web Integrated Network (WIN) has a new executive leadership team as part of its formal spinoff from global logistics and tech company Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corp.: Glenn Riggs, President; Lindsey Shellman, Chief Commercial Officer; and Xavier Amella, Chief Technology Officer, are leading Danbury, Connecticut-based WIN as an individual brand and separate entity. 

Michael Hanes is the new Senior Vice President of Sales at GoExpedi, a Houston-based e-commerce, supply chain and analytics company. 

Surgere, a Green, Ohio-based IoT supply chain management company, has named Robert “Rob” Fink its new Chief Growth Officer. 

Venu Vinjamaram is the new Senior Vice President of Technology and Innovation at Dayton, Ohio-based pharma transporter CSafe Global.

Merit Logistics, a San Juan Capistrano, California-based third-party warehouse services provider, recently promoted four employees to manage new client sites: Corey Hice, Oklahoma; Wayne Hubbard, Indiana; Josh Levings, Ohio; and Chris Walker, Nebraska. 

Eric Polzin is succeeding retiring Port Milwaukee Harbor Master Wayne Johnson

With the retirement of Richard Brough, the International Cargo Handling Coordination Association named Richard Steele as the new Head of ICHCA International. 

Liana Coyne, Coyne Airways; Bob Chi, SATS Ltd; Manel Galindo, WebCargo; and Hendrik Leyssens, Swissport, have joined the International Air Cargo Association Board of Directors.

Julie Kinnard, the Controller at Brentwood, Tennessee-based logistics management software company FreightWise, won in Startup/Private category of the Controllers Council’s recently announced 2020 Controller of the Year Awards.