Chief Executive Officer Echo Global Logistics 41 ANNUAL WILLIAM A. PATTERSON TRANSPORTATION LECTURE WEDNESDAY APRIL 26,2023 7:30 P.M. DOUG WAGGONER st
About William A. Patterson
About NUTC Northwestern University Transportation Center 600 Foster Street | Evanston, IL 60208-4055 847.491.2280 | tcinfo@northwestern.edu www.transportation.northwestern.edu
About Doug Waggoner
Doug Waggoner
of Echo Global Logistics since 2006 and has contributed to making Echo a leading provider of technology-enabled transportation management. Prior to Echo, he founded SelecTrans, LLC, a freight management software provider. From 2004 to 2005, he served as the CEO of USF Bestway. Prior to this, he was the senior vice president of strategic marketing for USF Corporation. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Supply-Chain Innovation Network of Chicago, a new organization emerging out of World Business Chicago’s Plan for Economic Growth and Jobs.
Waggoner holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from San Diego State University.
About Echo Global Logistics
Echo Global Logistics, Inc. is a leading, Fortune 1000 provider of technologyenabled transportation and supply chain management services. Headquartered brokerage and Managed Transportation solutions for all major modes, including truckload, partial truckload, LTL, intermodal, and expedited. Echo maintains a proprietary, web-based technology platform that compiles and analyzes data from its network of over 50,000 transportation providers to serve 35,000 clients across a wide range of industries and simplify the critical tasks involved in transportation management. For more information on Echo Global Logistics, visit: www.echo.com.
Distinguished Patterson Lectures
2022 Ed Bastian Delta Air Lines
2021 Ann Drake Lincoln Road Enterprises
2019 Lior Ron Uber Frieght
2018 Dennis Muilenburgg The Boeing Company
2017 Lance Fritz
2016 Jeff Silver Coyote, A UPS Company
2015 Doug Parker American Airlines
2014 Chris Lofgren Schneider
2013 Irwin M. Jacobs, Ph.D. Qualcomm
2012 Alan Mulally Ford Motor Company
2011 Jeff Smisek
United Airlines
2010 Craig Philip, Ph.D. Ingram Barge Company
2009 Scott McCallum Aidmatrix Foundation, Inc.
2008 Matthew K. Rose
2007 Mark V. Rosenker
National Transportation Safety Board
2006 Peter D. McDonald
United Airlines
2005 Lawrence D. Burns General Motors Corporation
2004 Michael L. Eskew
United Parcel Service, Inc.
2003 David Neeleman
2002 Norman Y. Mineta
U.S. Dept. of Transportation
2001 Donald Schneider
Schneider National, Inc.
2000 Frederick W. Smith FedEx Corporation
1999 Robert Krebs
1998 Lua Cheng Eng Neptune Orient Lines, Ltd.
1997 Herb Kelleher
1996 John Welsby
1995 William “Gus” Pagonis Sears, Roebuck and Co.
1994 Karel Van Miert European Union
1993 Robert Herman, Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
1992 J.B. Hunt J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc.
1991 Heinz Ruhnau
Lufthansa German Airlines
1990 Donald K. “Deke” Slayton Space Services Inc. of America
1989 Sir Colin Marshall
1988 William W. Winpisinger
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
1987 Frank Lorenzo Texas Air Corporation
1986 Robert L. Crandall
AMR Corporation, American Airlines
1985 Marvin L. Manheim
1984 Daryl Wyckoff, Ph.D.
Harvard University
1982 Alfred E. Kahn
Cornell University
1980 Richard J. Ferris United Airlines, Inc.