Leadership built to reinvent the future of freight
Meet the industry veterans and business leaders working together to move freight and the logistics industry forward.
Industry Veterans. Business Leaders.
Loadsmart Leadership.
Loadsmart is a Chicago-based freight tech company founded in 2014. As the ‘nerds of logistics’, we seek intelligence in data to solve deep rooted inefficiencies in the industry. Pairing advanced technologies with deep-seated industry expertise, Loadsmart fuels growth, simplifies operational complexity and bolsters efficiency for carriers and shippers alike. We give our customers access to our data connections that link supply and demand in addition to a suite of award-winning solutions to strike the perfect balance of cost and service.
Meet our leadership team who believe in a more efficient and environmentally responsible way to move more with less.
Meet our leadership team
Ricardo Salgado
Executive Chairman & Co-founder
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Felipe Capella
CEO & Co-founder
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Marcello Mastioni
Chief Operating Officer
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Tish Whitcraft
Chief Customer Officer
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Ben Buchanan
SVP of Brokerage Sales
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Jim Nicholson
SVP of Operations
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Gustavo Barbosa
VP of Engineering
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Kathleen Kaag
SVP of Marketing
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Naren Shankar
SVP of Global Partnerships
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Giovanni Battistella
VP of Product Management
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Robb Porter
EVP Managed Transportation
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Alain Avakian
Chief Technology Officer
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Amir Mirza
Chief Financial Officer
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Industry Veterans
Jim Nicholson, SVP of Operations, and Ben Buchanan, SVP of Account Management, discuss what the opportunity at Loadsmart meant to them after years of sharpening their logistics skills at some of the country’s largest and longest-running institutions.