Senior Advisors
Keith Dierkx
Keith recently retired as Global Rail, Freight and Logistics Leader at IBM where he established a Rail Innovation Center in Beijing, China. Prior to IBM, he was SVP of IT for one of the largest maritime terminal operators, where his team led the digital transformation and automation of terminal operations. Keith is deeply linked to the start-up and innovation communities and currently advises and mentors a number of companies. He has been a frequent speaker on the digitalization of the supply chain and the use of transformational technologies to enable improved business outcomes.
Jack Levis
Jack helps organizations with supply chain, advanced analytics, and process improvement. He worked at UPS for more than 42 years, where he was responsible for creating and executing a vision for operations planning, control, and monitoring processes and systems for Pickup, Delivery, and Transportation. In addition, Jack was responsible for the Operations Research and Advanced Analytics groups. Two major projects he led resulted in a reduction of 185M miles driven per year. Jack has been a TED speaker.
Dean Wise
Dean has 40 years of railroad (SP, CR, BNSF) and consulting experience (TBS, Mercer/Oliver Wyman, and Norbridge). He is currently a solo consultant, advising clients on transformational technology trends and adoption strategies in the rail and motor carrier environment.