Breakout Panel Discussion - The Good, Bad and Ugly of Transportation

Gary Girotti

Mr. Girotti heads up the transportation practice at Chainalytics LLC, and joined the firm in 2003. He and his team have conducted over 100 transportation engagements in the areas of transportation procurement, operational modeling and transportation operations improvements. Prior to joining Chainalytics, Gary spent 6 years with i2 and was responsible for managing product development and marketing delivery of i2’s logistics solutions.  Before joining i2, Gary worked as a consultant with Bain and Company, in Canada. Gary holds an MBA from the University of Western Ontario and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Joseph Lombardo

Joe Lombardo is the Group Manager, Transportation Logistics for Nestle USA . He has been with Nestle for 14 years, moving through the transportation department. He was previously with Nabisco where he spent 11 years in the transportation department, as well. Joe has a BS in Marketing from St. Peter’s College of New Jersey. He is currently an adjunct instructor at Elmhurst College, Center for Business and Economics, Graduate program of Supply Chain Management.  

Kevin McCarthy

Kevin McCarthy has 20+ years in the transportation business, and has worked for major discount retailers, a small private label food shippers and C.H. Robinson. He is in a unique position of having both bought and sold TL transportation during his career and currently works with customers on how to best procure TL transportation. He is currently the Manager of Logistics Services for Robinson. Kevin holds a undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Business with an emphasis in Marketing. He also has an MBA from Carlson School of business with an emphasis in Management Information Systems.