39th Annual William A. Patterson Lecture (Ann Drake)

39th William A. Patterson Transportation Lecture

Beyond Transportation Excellence: Lessons from the Pandemic

Ann Drake President and Founder, Lincoln Road Enterprises

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 / 7:30–9:00pm Central Kellogg Global Hub, White Auditorium, Northwestern University

About William A. Patterson

About Ann Drake

A central figure in the United States air transport industry for more than four

Ann Drake is President and Founder of Lincoln

decades, William A. “Pat” Patterson served as president and chairman of

Road Enterprises, a women’s leadership

United Airlines from 1934 until his retirement in 1966. He was a life trustee of

organization she started in 2019 to advance the

Northwestern University and was instrumental in the establishment and

influence and contributions of women in

strategic leadership of the Northwestern University Transportation Center (NUTC).

public/private enterprise, global supply chain, engineering/technology, infrastructure/design,

In his honor, Northwestern established the William A. Patterson Transportation

and space/astrophysics. She has been recognized

Endowment in 1978. More than 60 corporate contributions and 1,200

multiple times as one of the country’s leading

individual donors funded the Patterson endowment. The Endowment helps

women executives, honored for her vision and

support the activities of the Distinguished Patterson Chair in Transportation,

ability to engage others in meaningful dialogue

the annual Patterson Transportation Lecture and the aviation collection of the

and collaboration toward positive change.

Transportation Library.

The Patterson Chair serves as an intellectual focal point for transportation research and education at Northwestern, most of which is coordinated through NUTC. Professor Hani Mahmassani, Director of NUTC, holds the Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation.

Before starting Lincoln Road Enterprises, Ann was Chairman and CEO of DSC Logistics, a highly innovative and dynamic leader in supply chain and logistics management, business partner to some of the world’s leading companies and recognized industry-wide for advancing supply chain thinking and practices.

Under her guidance, DSC helped transform the business of supply chain management from a commodity service into a critical and creative business strategy based on collaborative partnerships.

About NUTC The Northwestern University Transportation Center (NUTC) is one of the world’s leading interdisciplinary education and research institutions, serving industry, government, and the public. Founded in 1954 to make substantive and enduring contributions to the movement of freight, goods, people, energy and information,

Recognizing and elevating the role of women has been a passion of Ann’s most of her life. “I’ve been interested in women in business for more than 30 years,” she says, “because I saw how often the gifts, insight and drive women possess weren’t getting utilized. I realized I wanted to throw my wholehearted support behind helping women succeed in areas that I think are crucial to shaping our future—and making that future better for everyone.”

the NUTC stands at the forefront of transportation research and education, bringing

Besides her ongoing roles in women’s leadership venues, Ann founded AWESOME

together academic researchers, students, and business affiliates in open

(Achieving Women’s Excellence in Supply Chain Operations, Management and

exploration of transportation and supply chain operations. In so doing, the Center

Education) in 2013, which is today the preeminent community for senior women

aims to influence national and international transportation policy, management,

in supply chain. AWESOME’s mission is to advance and transform the future of

operations, and technological developments, with the goal of making transportation and

supply chain leadership.

supply chain operations more productive, efficient, safe, secure, environmentally friendly, and socially beneficial.

Northwestern University Transportation Center 600 Foster Street, Evanston, IL 60208-4055

Lincoln Road Enterprises, in partnership with AWESOME, furthers Ann’s vision of the future—a world without barriers to excellence and accomplishment, and one in which women’s particular contributions are fully recognized, valued, and honored on the way to making the world a better place.

847.491.2280 / tcinfo@northwestern.edu

Ann is a graduate of the University of Iowa and received an MBA from the Kellogg

transportation.northwestern.edu

School of Management at Northwestern University.

Distinguished Patterson Lectures 2019 Lior Ron Uber Freight

2000 Frederick W. Smith FedEx Corporation

2018 Dennis Muilenburg The Boeing Company

1999 Robert Krebs Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway

2017 Lance Fritz Union Pacific Railway

1998 Lua Cheng Eng Neptune Orient Lines, Ltd.

2016 Jeff Silver Coyote, A UPS Company

1997 Herb Kelleher Southwest Airline Co.

2015 Doug Parker American Airlines

1996 John Welsby British Railways

2014 Chris Lofgren Schneider

1995 William “Gus” Pagonis Sears, Roebuck and Co.

2013 Irwin M. Jacobs, Ph.D. Qualcomm

1994 Karel Van Miert European Union

2012 Alan Mulally Ford Motor Company

1993 Robert Herman, Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin

2011 Jeff Smisek United Airlines

1992 J.B. Hunt J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc.

2010 Craig Philip, Ph.D. Ingram Barge Company

1991 Heinz Ruhnau Lufthansa German Airlines

2009 Scott McCallum Aidmatrix Foundation, Inc.

1990 Donald K. “Deke” Slayton Space Services Inc. of America

2008 Matthew K. Rose BNSF Railway

1989 Sir Colin Marshall British Airways

2007 Mark V. Rosenker National Transportation Safety Board

1988 William W. Winpisinger International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

2006 Peter D. McDonald United Airlines 2005 Lawrence D. Burns General Motors Corporation 2004 Michael L. Eskew United Parcel Service, Inc. 2003 David Neeleman JetBlue Airways 2002 Norman Y. Mineta U.S. Dept. of Transportation 2001 Donald Schneider Schneider National, Inc.

1987 Frank Lorenzo Texas Air Corporation 1986 Robert L. Crandall AMR Corporation, American Airlines 1985 Marvin L. Manheim Northwestern University 1984 Daryl Wyckoff, Ph.D. Harvard University 1982 Alfred E. Kahn Cornell University 1980 Richard J. Ferris United Airlines, Inc.