Chazz Sims is the CEO and co-founder of Wise Systems, a Boston-area company that uses machine learning to plan and continuously re-plan last-mile delivery routes in real time. Born in Irmo, South Carolina, he studied computer science at MIT and turned a Media Lab class project into a logistics platform now used by fleets like Anheuser-Busch and Lyft. He was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Enterprise Technology in 2021 for the company's role keeping supply chains moving during the pandemic.
Guillermo Garcia is the co-founder and CEO of SmartHop, a Miami-based platform that acts as an autonomous dispatcher and 'business-in-a-box' for small trucking companies and owner-operators. A Venezuelan industrial engineer who started out delivering pet food, he built a bootstrapped ~500-employee logistics company back home before political and economic instability pushed him to the U.S. After studying at Columbia and running an over-the-road fleet in Miami, he founded SmartHop in 2017-2018 to give independent truckers the software, load recommendations, and financial tools that big carriers take for granted. SmartHop has raised over $56M, including a $30M+ Series B in 2022.