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Katie Wild Wants Marketing to Work Like a Shipping System: Visible, Connected, Measurable
The FreightWise CMO has spent 15 years turning complicated logistics into useful stories. Her latest assignment began with a one-person team, 510 URLs and a stubborn belief that marketing systems should actually talk to one another.
Chris Oliver Is Marketing to the Person Behind the Windshield
At Trucker Path, the chief marketing officer’s brief stretches from brand to product to truck parking. His method is simple enough to fit on a dashboard: ask drivers what gets in the way, then build around the answer.
Brian Doud Built His Career Where Marketing Meets the Scoreboard
From Coca-Cola sponsorships to trucking software, Brian Doud has spent more than 25 years translating complicated businesses into stories people can use. His clearest lessons, however, may have been learned on a Birmingham lacrosse field.
Chris Silver Has Spent a Career Making Complicated Technology Feel Useful
From in-cab computers to fundraising software and back to the highway, the PrePass CMO has built a career around one stubborn question: does the technology make life clearer for the person using it?
Armir Harris Is Turning the Humble Bus Into a Software Business
A frantic request for 60 buses showed Armir Harris what the industry lacked. He has spent the years since turning phone calls, paper schedules and idle vehicles into a real-time transportation network.
Joe Salemme Built a Travel Business Around the Miles Nobody Wanted
Before LUXY Ride, Joe Salemme learned to notice trucks returning empty. He turned that stubborn operating waste into a second career spanning chauffeur software, corporate travel, and Connecticut development.
Guillermo Garcia
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.
Jozsef Kovacs
Jozsef Kovacs was the co-founder and CEO of Commsignia, the world's largest company fully dedicated to Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication technology. Born in Hungary and trained as a computer scientist and PhD researcher in cooperative intelligent transportation systems, he co-founded Commsignia in 2012 alongside fellow researchers from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Under his leadership, Commsignia deployed V2X technology across 130+ intersections in Las Vegas, secured partnerships with Volkswagen, Audi, Ford, and major OEMs, raised $26M+ in venture funding, and expanded to 20+ countries. Kovacs passed away in late 2021, leaving behind a company that continues to lead the global V2X industry.
Marty Beard
Marty Beard is the CEO and Board Member of Hayden AI, the largest provider of mobile automated bus zone and bike lane enforcement systems in the United States. A serial enterprise technology executive with a track record spanning Oracle, Sybase, LiveOps, BlackBerry, and alwaysAI, Beard brings deep expertise in scaling AI and computer vision platforms. At Hayden AI, he leads a 190-person company backed by $246M+ in funding - including a $90M Series C - to deploy vision AI on city transit vehicles that detect lane violations in real time, improving bus speeds, reducing collisions, and making urban transit safer and more reliable across cities in the US and Europe.