Hani S. Mahmassani - Patterson Transportation Chair / Director, NUTC Bret Johnson - Senior Associate Director, NUTC / Director, CCITT
The Northwestern University Transportation Center (NUTC) is one of the world’s leading interdisciplinary education and research institutions, serving industry, government and the public sectors. Founded in 1954 to generate substantive and enduring contributions for the better movement of materials, people, energy, and information, NUTC stands at the forefront of transportation research and education. NUTC brings together academic and international transportation policy, management and technological developments with the goal of making transportation and supply chain
The Center for the Commercialization of Innovative Transportation Technology (CCITT) fosters the implementation of innovative technologies for all modes of surface transportation, including but not limited to railways, mass transit, highways and waterways.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Kellogg Global Hub , Evanston, IL
Hani Mahmassani | Director | NUTC
Bret Johnson | Senior Associate Director | NUTC 2:10
Fabrizio (Fab) Brasca
Industry and Market Strategy | FourKites
Bart De Muynck
Bill Driegert | Head of Operations & Co-founder| Uber Freight
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Fabrizio (Fab) Brasca
FourKites Bart De Muynck project44 Bill Driegert
Head of Operations & Co-founder Uber Freight
Bret Johnson
Senior Associate Director, Transportation Center, Northwestern University
Hani S. Mahmassani
William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation Director, Transportation Center Northwestern University
Danesha Marasinghe
Industry Consultant – Supply Chain Teradata Peeter Kivestu Principal Oplytix, LLC
Jonathan Shaver Founder and CEO StrategIQ Commerce
Omar Singh CEO
Surge Transportation
Strategy at FourKites. In this role, he leads his organization to drive and partner ecosystem.
Previously, Fab was GVP of Solution Strategy at Blue Yonder, responsible for developing innovative strategies across all industry verticals, prospects, and advising companies on best practices to become acquisition in January 2010, after spending more than 10 years at i2 serving in transportation-focused senior management positions. In these roles, he helped lead i2’s global transportation practice, including marketing, presales, roadmap development and services functions.
Fab holds an Honours Bachelor of Mathematics, with a specialization in business and information systems, from the University of Waterloo in Canada.
project44 engagement and to inform product and services strategies. De Muynck previously worked the last eight years as a vice president and analyst at Gartner. While at Gartner, his research focused on delivery processes,
Prior to Gartner, he spent 20 years working in supply chain, logistics and technology across North America and Europe, at companies including PepsiCo, Elemica, Penske, GE and more.
Head of Operations & Co-founder Uber Freight spent time at Amazon as Director of Planning and Innovation with was a founding team member of Coyote Logistics (acquired by UPS) and career in logistics. Bill lives in Tiburon, CA with his wife and 2 children old cars and motorcycles.
Senior Associate Director, Transportation Center Northwestern University
Bret Johnson is the Associate Director of the Northwestern University Transportation Center (NUTC), and the Director of the Center for the Commercialization of Innovative Transportation Technology at Northwestern. Bret manages corporate relations and engagement for education programs with and for industry and public sector partners. In this role, he also helps nurture, grow, and develop programming for the Transportation Center’s Business Advisory Council. Bret also conducts management positions at 3COM, Grayhill, Northrop-Grumman, and GE Astrospace. He received an M.A. in Science, Technology and Public Policy from The George Washington University, an M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Principal Oplytix, LLC advisory services and solutions in travel, transportation, smart cities,
and related urban services. For some 15 years, he developed
transportation solution strategies for Teradata, a data analytics company, meeting the challenges of their private/public sector clients all over
technology at American Airlines, Canadian Airlines International, and Northwest Airlines, including roles as VP of Advanced Programs, VP Materials Management (aircraft parts & logistics), and VP B2B Sales. Peeter holds an Engineering degree from Brown University and a Master’s degree in Aeronautics from MIT.
Industry Consultant – Supply Chain Teradata
procurement professional who believes in the transformative power
supply chain and operations consulting engagements. Prior to PwC he led a value chain team at Amway responsible for a $2 B USD business line, where they transformed the supply chain by developing and implementing an integrated supply chain strategy. Prior to this he was part of DELL’s global supply chain nerve center. In addition to supply technologies.
HANI S. MAHMASSANIWilliam A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation Director, Transportation Center Northwestern University
Hani S. Mahmassani is Director of the Transportation Center, and the William A. Patterson Distinguished Professor in Transportation at
Kellogg School of Management. He previously served in endowed faculty
scholar and professional in the transportation and logistics area. Mahmassani is recognized nationally and internationally for a broad
array of transportation research achievements; his applications span both passenger and freight, and he has been especially effective at connecting advanced models to emerging policy issues. He has pioneered the use of novel data sources and real-time data streams in transportation modeling and decision-making, including sensor data
from intelligent transportation systems deployments, probe data from GPS and smartphones, transaction records from payment systems, and vehicle-based tracking systems. His current research is focused emerging mobility service models.
JONATHAN SHAVER Founder and CEOStrategIQ Commerce largest e-commerce and retail brands assisting in design, oversight, and measurement of their shipping networks. He has built the company to 100 + employees who process and analyze billions of shipping and commerce transactions for their clients. Jonathan established
Management with an emphasis in Transportation and is a supporter and advocate of Entrepreneurship and Diversity initiatives at Kellogg. Jonathan is resides in Chicago IL with his wife and two sons. His family circular activities for Chicago’s underserved youth.
OMAR SINGH CEOSurge Transportation
Omar Singh is the President of Surge Transportation. He has more than company owner, and broker. He sits on the Board of Directors of TIA, speaks publicly, and writes about industry topics. He has spearheaded Surge Transportation’s notable rise as a leading player in API Real-time pricing and manages initiative integrations with BluJay Solutions, Blue Oracle.
