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The Capacity Code: What Freight Forwarders Can Learn from Passenger Airlines
The Capacity Code: What Freight Forwarders Can Learn from Passenger Airlines In passenger aviation, a concept called code-sharing is so common we barely think about it. You can book a ticket with American Airlines, fly the first leg on a British Airways jet, connect...
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S03 E11: Tiffany Benjamin, CEO, The Humana Foundation
Meet Dan Florness Tiffany Benjamin is the CEO of the Humana Foundation, the philanthropic arm of one of the country’s largest healthcare companies. A Harvard-trained lawyer, she began her career at a major firm, served as senior investigative counsel for the U.S....
S03 E10: Dan Florness, CEO, Fastenal
Meet Dan Florness Dan Florness joined Fastenal as CFO when the company’s run rate was about $250 million. Thirty years later, with the last 11 as CEO, Fastenal does over $9 billion in revenue across 26 countries, and it takes about a week to match a full year of the...
S03 E9: Erica Baird, Executive Director of Global Sales and Service, Cummins
Meet Erica Baird Erica Baird's path into global industrial leadership is anything but typical. She grew up biracial in a city of 100,000 where there were only five kids like her. Her mother had been disowned for having her. Her father was Muhammad Ali's bodyguard. She...
S03 E8: Dan Seidel, Global COO, HelloFresh
Meet Dan Seidel Dan Seidel spent more than 15 years at Thomas and Betts (an ABB Group company) as a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt before moving to Amazon, then Target, and now HelloFresh — first as COO of North America, then Global COO. When he joined HelloFresh in...
S03 E7: Katie Stratton, Chief Growth & Strategy Officer, Shipt
Meet Katie Stratton Katie Stratton's career reads like a masterclass in taking smart risks. She joined Facebook as the 90th employee in the New York office before the IPO, spent nearly 12 years at Meta rising to lead U.S. sales for dining and delivery, and then made a...