I have spent the majority of my professional life thinking about solving problems at the intersection of technology and the physical world. That is what I did for most of my 23 years at Amazon. I worked with great teams to build technology enabling a more transparent, efficient delivery of goods to customers. The vital importance of fast, reliable delivery services for homes, small businesses, grocery stores, and more has become clearer over the past two years during the global pandemic. The supply chain has entered everyday national discourse for all the wrong reasons. Put simply, the United States supply chain suffers from a significant fragmentation of technology and process. Flexport founder, Ryan Petersen, and his team have thrown themselves at this problem by brilliantly tackling the most complicated piece of the supply chain: the global cross-border movement of goods. It is an area where few technology companies have dared to tread because of the vast array of regulatory rules, intimidating geographical distances, and siloed network of providers. Flexport has not flinched. They have built a technology platform that solves for this challenging integration of technology and the physical world by connecting the entire ecosystem of global trade. This monumental accomplishment is empowering buyers, sellers, and logistics providers of all sizes to grow and scale. Ryan and his team have grown the business to an impressive size and scale and customers love it. I firmly believe that the true potential and magnitude of Flexport’s innovations have only just started to be realized. It is for all the reasons above and countless more that I am looking forward to transitioning into the role of CEO at Flexport in September. I am fortunate to have the opportunity to partner with an incredible team who are building a customer-first, rocket ship of a company focused on architecting and building solutions for the most complicated supply chain problems through world class technology for the physical world. More to come, Dave #flexport
Welcome! Excited for what’s yet to come!
Kevin Crosby
1y
Congratulations Dave Clark this is a massive opportunity to fix global supply chain. Am excited for you in this journey
Steve Sellin
1y
Dave Clark the global supply chain has been going through a very challenging time during the darkest times of the Covid-19 pandemic and presently due to consistently changing government import regulations worldwide, the shutdown of ports, cities, and national boundaries, and shipping carriers being overwhelmed with freight. Look at what happened at the ports in both Los Angeles and Long Beach, it was a big mess where millions of dollars of freight was stalled because there was so much arriving all at the same time where many container ships had to wait sometimes up to 2 weeks to offload their freight costing the big shipping companies and businesses like Amazon a lot of money per day.
Luke Hendrix
1y
WDE! Keep going David.
Congrats Dave!
Congrats, Dave!
Dignified Procurement oracle, A Minimalist,stage-4 cancer fighter, arbitrator, M&A specialist, C-Suite Headhunter 1.Partner in O&G blocks 2.Managing overseas & Indian EPCs 3.Managing CEOs, CPOs, CMOs, CFOs
1yCongrats