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Brian Runnels

Reliance Partners

Brian is a transportation professional with almost 30 years in the trucking industry. For 19 years Brian drove over 2 million safe miles and spent eight years as a driver trainer. In 2017, the opportunity to move to the trucking insurance industry arose, where Brian gained experience in Loss Control and Sales. In July 2021, Brian was promoted to VP of Safety for Reliance Partners and now leads a team of transportation professionals in building a comprehensive Loss Control and Safety department for Reliance Partners. 

Doug Marcello

Bluewire

Doug Marcello, Chief Legal Officer of Bluewire, is a trucking defense attorney with a CDL. He had represented trucking clients across the country, having been specially admitted for cases in 35 states. Doug received the 2018 Leadership Award of the ATA Safety Council. He has served on the advisory board of the American Trucking Research Institute. Doug is a member of numerous trucking organizations, including a board member of the PA Motor Truck Association and member of the American Trucking Association Safety Council as well as trucking law organizations.

Wendy Greenland

Openforce

Wendy Greenland brings nearly 30 years of experience and leadership to Openforce, focused on developing and delivering technology-driven business services and solutions, providing outstanding client service, and driving profitable revenue growth. Through the transparent and collaborative leadership of CEO Wendy Greenland, Openforce is well-positioned at the forefront of where technology and the shifting modern labor markets converge. Within Openforce, she drives the mission of the organization and creates a standard of quality in order to provide best-in-class products and services to our contractors and clients.

Doug Grawe

The Grawe Group

Doug Grawe has been serving trucking and logistics companies for over 15 years. From general counsel matters to executive leadership support, Doug brings practical solutions to clients because he has been in the executive chair at large trucking and logistics companies. Doug has supported the rights of drivers to choose independence in the trucking industry with many industry articles and briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court explaining the history and pride independent owner operators have in the trucking industry.

Jeremy Reymer

DriverReach

As Founder and CEO of DriverReach, Jeremy Reymer is passionate and innovative in addressing today’s challenges with recruiting CDL drivers. Reymer brings nearly 20 years of experience in the trucking industry as both a carrier and a vendor, having led a small truckload operation as well as a regional CDL driver staffing company. In 2016, Reymer founded DriverReach, a modern driver recruiting management solution, to address the ongoing driver shortage.

Hayden Cardiff

Idelic

Hayden Cardiff graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with his Master of Business Administration and is deeply immersed in the world of data and trucking technology. Hayden’s journey led him to Pitt Ohio in 2015 where he served as a consultant and witnessed the real-life challenges that fleet safety teams face every day. After seeing and understanding these hardships, he founded Idelic, the team behind the Idelic Safety Suite®, where he currently serves as Founder and Chief Innovation Officer.

Andrew Ladebauche

Reliance Partners

Andrew grew up around the transportation industry, earning an appreciation for its culture, challenges and hard work required to succeed. He earned his bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. After starting his career in the insurance industry, he realized the value a company could bring to the trucking and freight brokerage business by specializing in their needs. That idea became Reliance Partners, which he helped found in 2009. He assembled a team and built the foundation of the company with an eye on the fast-changing marketplace.

Bobby Humphrey

Argos Connected Solutions

Bobby Humphrey is a telematics and safety expert who helps fleets realize that data is one of the greatest assets at their disposal. For Bobby, data is more than numbers that fleets produce daily: they offer valuable insights into areas of improvement that have real-world applications. His 15 years of experience go beyond the sales side of technology, aiding his partners through the implementation process. Bobby’s deep understanding of the importance of integration has propelled his career and helped to launch his own successful company as an authorized Geotab partner. Today, Bobby serves as the President and Founder of Argos Connected Solutions, an Indianapolis-based technology provider that focuses on the optimization of fleet management and safety.

Kristen Johnson

Taylor Johnson PL

Kristen M.J. Johnson is a partner at the transportation law firm of Taylor Johnson PL, heading up the firm’s litigation group. In 2020, Kristen was the only private practice attorney selected as a Top Woman to Watch in Transportation by the Women In Trucking Association. She practices a full range of business litigation and arbitration, including freight claims, contract and tort disputes, appeals, and government investigations. She advises clients on risk management, case and witness preparation, regulatory response, compliance programs, and critical strategy.

Craig Helmreich

Helmreich Law, LLC

Craig has practiced as a transportation attorney for 22 years, focusing on cargo claims, freight charge issues, transportation contracts, collections, risk mitigation in bankruptcy (customer bankruptcies), and more. In 2021, Craig started Helmreich Law LLC, a virtual firm, now with 3 attorneys, focused on providing good value to its transportation clients.

Adam Kahn

Netradyne

Adam Kahn brings over 25 years of transportation experience to lead Netradyne’s Fleet Business. Adam draws from years with leading technology companies as well as his generational trucking heritage to focus on delivering technology that continuously improves the safety environment for drivers, working as their advocate to ensure that they are successful at work and get home to their family at night.

Jeff Hunt

Frost Brown Todd

Jeff has worked with transportation and logistics providers on their regulatory, risk, legal and operational challenges, including insurance, risk management, real estate, compliance, safety, employment and litigation matters. He helped establish insurance programs and manage associated risks for insureds during his time in the insurance industry. His experience includes claims management, contracts, safety and compliance with an emphasis on primary & excess auto liability, non-trucking liability, cargo, workers’ compensation, occupational accident and contingent liability.

Nathan Potter

Katz, Sapper & Miller

Nathan Potter is a director in Katz, Sapper & Miller’s Business Advisory Group. Nathan advises clients on corporate structure and strategic tax planning, identifying opportunities to optimize their tax position while ensuring compliance with reporting requirements. Nathan services a wide variety of industries with his main area of focus in transportation.

Brandon Wiseman

Trucksafe Consulting, LLC

Brandon Wiseman is the owner and President of Trucksafe Consulting and a partner with Childress Law. As a transportation attorney, Brandon has assisted some the nation’s leading motor carriers in developing and maintaining compliant and cutting-edge safety programs, and he has also represented carriers of all types and sizes before the FMCSA on matters such as safety rating upgrades and civil penalty proceedings. Through his consulting company, Brandon now offers carriers state of the art compliance resources and regulatory training materials, covering a wide range of safety-related topics. 

Eric Baker

Frost Brown Todd

Eric understands the business, regulatory, environmental and economic challenges facing companies today; he spent 18 years serving as general counsel in the transportation industry, during which time he was also president of an international transportation operating division. Eric's focus as a member of FBT's Mobility & Transportation industry team is on mergers and acquisitions, corporate transactions and general corporate and regulatory matters. Eric also assists in defending clients in commercial litigation, employment issues, personal injury matters and liability issues.  Eric is also President of Transaction Expeditors (TE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Frost Brown Todd. TE is a strategic technology & innovation company with deep experience in the insurance, transportation and mergers & acquisition verticals. TE offers AI-enabled contract review and redlining solutions that help companies do more with less. TE makes contract review easier and helps companies close deals faster utilizing people, process & technology.

Craig Decker

CMD Advisory LLC

Craig Decker is an investment banker in the transportation, logistics and supply chain sectors. Craig founded CMD Advisory after serving as Head of Investment Banking at Wolfe Capital Markets & Advisory; Co-Head of Morgan Keegan & Company’s Transportation Group; and founding Principal at Legacy Partners Group. Craig began his career in the M&A group at Credit Suisse, then moving to the Transportation & Logistics Group. Craig has completed over $50 billion of transactions in the trucking, e-Commerce/final mile, 3PL, rail, inland marine, energy logistics and supply chain technologies sectors.

George Thellman

RAN Transportation Solutions, LLC

With over 10 years in the transportation industry, George prides himself on being a champion of small and medium-sized businesses and providing them the same access to technology that larger companies have been afforded. Whether launching new products as the Senior Director-Transportation Management Solutions for EOX Vantage, or Trimble Transportation, or as an author and speaker on the topic of safety, George’s experience brings value to the supply chain industry.

Jerad Childress

Childress Law, PLLC

Jerad Childress is a transportation attorney and Managing Partner of Childress Law, PLLC. Jerad represents transportation and manufacturing clients, including some of the nation’s largest motor carriers, on various regulatory compliance matters and before the many DOT agencies, including the FMCSA, NHTSA, and FAA. Jerad regularly counsels carriers and manufacturers on technological advances in the industry, including Electronic Logging Devices, and has conducted numerous third-party reviews of ELD platforms. 

Christa Peterson

The Paladin Group

Christa Peterson has been a leader on the front lines for successful trucking companies by managing and mitigating complex claims, navigating insurance programs and addressing compliance matters. Her leadership extends to TIDA as Chair of the Young Professionals Committee, and she received their 2021 Emerging Leader award. Christa provides consultation and advocacy for clients to reduce their total cost of risk. She strives to find innovative Risk Management solutions to ensure successful resolutions that positively affect the bottom line for motor carriers.

Lizzie Kolkowski

Canal Insurance

Lizzie created the Innovation team at Canal Insurance in 2020 with a focus on creating commercial trucking insurance products that allow trucking companies to derive value from the technology they are already using. She has been with Canal for 6 years, using analytics to understand risks and discover opportunities. Prior to joining Canal, she worked for Northrop Grumman on data analysis and management for the Department of Defense. She has an MS in Analytics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a BS in Statistics and Psychology from the University of Georgia.

Steve Vaughn

PrePass

Steve Vaughn served nearly three decades with the California Highway Patrol where he was responsible for providing oversight for commercial vehicle regulation, inspection and enforcement. This experience, plus being a past president of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, gives Steve unique insight into how trucking and law enforcement can work together to improve truck safety. As vice president of field operations at PrePass Safety Alliance, the provider of PrePass weigh station bypass and toll-payment services, Steve oversees all liaison efforts with state agencies.