Bill Shea

Semiramis Paliou

Chief Executive Officer DCLI

One would be challenged to name an executive working in the US transportation industry who has a longer, more impactful track record than Bill Shea. Mr. Shea has been the Chief Executive Officer of DCLI and an investor in the company since March 2012. In this role, Mr. Shea is instrumental in shaping the company’s strategic vision and facilitating the acquisition of major legacy chassis fleets while maintaining oversight of the company’s growth and financial performance.

Mr. Shea began his career in the transportation leasing Industry in 1979 with Itel Rail Corporation leasing railcars to short line and Class 1 railroads. In 1984, Mr. Shea co-founded Kelley Transportation Services marketing intermodal equipment manufactured by Stoughton Trailers. Mr. Shea also co-founded Bay Cities Leasing, creating a pool of 15,000 piggyback trailers servicing the rail industry. In 1994, Bay Cities was selected to manage the first domestic container and chassis pool, called EMP, for Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern with Mr. Shea serving as the pool’s Program Manager. The EMP Program, through its affiliation with REZ-1 (now Blume Global), developed the first reservation and billing systems for intermodal equipment and continues to manage domestic 53’ containers and chassis for Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern and CSX rail networks today.

Mr. Shea oversaw the creation of DCLI, formerly the chassis leasing division of Maersk. He was the thoughtleader behind the creation of the Pool of Pools, the gray daily-use chassis pool that operates in the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Mr. Shea engineered DCLI’s acquisition of REZ-1 and IAS to provide asset management and logistics software services to railroads, ocean carriers, logistics companies, motor carriers and BCOs.

Mr. Shea serves on the Board of Directors of DCLI and is Chairman of the Blume Global Board. He served on JB Hunt’s Board in 2009-2010 and on the Board of the IICL. He combined his passions for wine and charities founding three charity wine auctions, which have raised over $40M for children’s causes. He currently sits on the San Francisco Family House board, an 80-unit facility that houses families whose children are undergoing treatment for life-threatening illnesses at UCSF Hospital in Mission Bay.

Mr. Shea graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, with a degree in Economics. He lives in San Francisco with his wife of 35 years, Elizabeth. They are the proud parents of two adult children, Allyson and Austin.

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