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Cleo and the eight-week handshake
Winning the customer is only the beginning. Cleo works on the awkward interval between a signed deal and two companies whose systems can finally talk.
20Cube Logistics
20Cube Logistics is a Singapore-based, software-enabled international supply chain orchestrator that moves freight from purchase order to proof of delivery. Founded in 2011 by ex-Agility Logistics executives, it pairs freight forwarding, warehousing, distribution and customs brokerage with MyHubPlus, a proprietary digital platform giving customers real-time shipment visibility, exception management and reporting across 12 countries and 85+ locations.
TraceLink
TraceLink runs the largest digital network for the pharmaceutical supply chain, connecting roughly 280,000 companies so drugs can be tracked from factory to pharmacy shelf. Born to fight counterfeit medicines, the Massachusetts company became the backbone for global serialization and DSCSA compliance, and is now pushing into no-code and agentic AI tools that let trading partners resolve shortages, recalls, and exceptions across the network.
Shabbir Dahod
Shabbir Dahod is the co-founder, President and CEO of TraceLink, the Massachusetts company that built the de-facto industry standard network for tracing pharmaceuticals from factory to patient. He started the company in 2009 out of ideas sparked at MIT, after earlier stints building multimedia and web products at Paul Allen's Asymetrix and Microsoft, and founding the serialization pioneer SupplyScape. Today he is pushing TraceLink's 291,000-entity digital network toward agentic AI and end-to-end supply chain orchestration, work that earned him a 2024 Pros to Know Lifetime Achievement Award.