Traffic Club of Chicago Podcast

Mr. Keith Prather (MBA) is a Managing Director of Armada Corporate Intelligence and one of the companies’ co-founders. During his ten plus years as Armada’s primary strategist, he has worked with Fortune 500 companies on everything from merger and acquisition strategy to key account management, strategic planning and corporate marketing efforts. He has developed a number of proprietary analytical tools that have been used by companies of all sizes. These include tools designed to position a c...

Jeff develops Redwood's commercial strategies for their enterprise mode and service offerings, helping forge value between their customers, carriers and people. These strategies include Redwood's various modes, service lines, business units and technologies. Prior to his current commercial role, Jeff lead contract brokerage for Redwood Logistics, including their asset light intermodal division with North American coverage. The foundational knowledge & customers for Redwood's intermod...

Mr. Martin Lew is the CEO/Founder of Commtrex, the largest electronic Marketplace for rail shippers to directly connect with railcar owners, transloaders, storage facilities, rail services and industry data. Prior to Commtrex, Mr. Lew was the Head of Sales and Origination for Mabanaft Coal Trading (America and Europe), Vice President on the Coal and Environmental Markets Trading Desk within J.P. Morgan's Global Commodities Group, Associate for the North American Emissions and Coal Group at Be...

Ken Adamo is the Chief of Analytics at DAT Solutions, the largest truckload freight marketplace in North America. Adamo leads DAT’s analytics team and serves as the company's senior industry analyst.Prior to joining DAT, Adamo developed rate forecasting models and advanced pricing principles as Manager of Decision Science and Innovation at FedEx Custom Critical.

Mr. Regan co-founded TranzAct Technologies in 1984 and is extremely well known and active within the logistics industry.He serves or has served on the Board of numerous Supply Chain and Transportation industry groups and he is very active within other C-Level professional organizations such as YPO-WPO, CEO, L-3, and other professional executive associations. He has received numerous industry honors including CSCMP's Distinguished Service Award, the Natural Industrial Transportation League's M...

Tong Zhu oversees the organization’s commercial team, including the alliance’s cargo and real estate businesses, marketing and research.Zhu most recently served as the chief commercial officer at the Port of Tacoma since 2010. She joined the Port of Tacoma in 2007. As chief commercial officer, she managed the activities of the Port’s diversified business portfolio, including container, non‐container (breakbulk and RoRo), intermodal and real estate. She also oversaw the marketing, research and...

Bryan is an accomplished executive with diversified management experience in most aspects of sales, marketing strategy & service solutions related to the logistics and transportation industry. Before joining VTG Rail Leasing in 2016 as Regional Vice President of Sales, he’d held the role of Commercial Leader at GE Capital Rail Services for 10 years; where he was engaged in railcar leasing, financing and service solutions, in addition to 15 years of experience working with various Class I ...

Mark Montague’s career spans 37 years of transportation related activities starting as a dispatcher/analyst, moving into pricing and supply chain design.Prior to joining DAT Solutions, Mark worked in 3rd party logistics at Ozburn-Hessey Logistics, Hub Group Distribution, and DSC Logistics. His primary focus has been on truckload and LTL pricing and negotiation with additional experience in quoting rail intermodal, ocean and air freight shipments. He has also worked consulting assignment...

Mr. Keith Prather (MBA) is a Managing Director of Armada Corporate Intelligence and one of the companies’ co-founders. During his ten plus years as Armada’s primary strategist, he has worked with Fortune 500 companies on everything from merger and acquisition strategy to key account management, strategic planning and corporate marketing efforts. He has developed a number of proprietary analytical tools that have been used by companies of all sizes. These include tools designed to position a c...

Mr. Eriksen is the head of the IHS Markit's IEG Vantage Client Advisory and Development, and Energy and Transportation groups. In this capacity, he directs the group's efforts in client advisory and development, risk management, consulting and events.Since joining IEG in 2001, Mr. Eriksen led the Transportation, Industrial and Energy Services team and co-led the project consulting practiceMr. Eriksen regularly speaks on commodity, transportation and infrastructure issues and developments and ...

As Senior Vice President Supply Chain and Logistics at Walgreens, Randy Lewis bet his career that he could create an inclusive workplace at one of America’s biggest corporations where people with disabilities could not just succeed but thrive. Randy designed and opened the first distribution facility of its kind to employ a significant number of people with disabilities (more than 40% of the workforce has a cognitive or physical disability.) Drawing inspiration from his autistic son, Randy ha...