Agenda

Wolfe Trahan & Co. Global Transportation Conference

Wednesday, May 25 & Thursday, May 26, 2011

Fordham University, School of Law at Lincoln Center, 140 W. 62nd Street, New York, New York

 

Tuesday, May 24

Individual Company Dinners (for confirmed clients only)                                                                                                                                                       

6:00 – 7:30 pm: Canadian National Railway Co., Luc Jobin, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

6:00 – 7:30 pm: Delta Air Lines Inc., Ed Bastian, President and Halter, Chief Financial Officer 

6:00 – 7:30 pm: Knight Transportation Inc., & Swift Transportation Company, Kevin Knight, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer and Jerry Moyes, Chief Executive Officer

 

Wednesday, May 25

Time

Track 1: McNally Amphitheater

Track 2: Room 205

7:00am

Registration

7:15 – 7:30

Opening Remarks: Ed Wolfe, Wolfe Trahan & Co.

7:30 – 8:10

Breakfast Keynote: Surface Transportation Board, Daniel Elliott, Chairman

8:10 – 8:35

Reflections on Rail Regulatory Direction

Covington & Burling LLP, Linda Morgan, Chair of the Transportation Practice Group (former STB Chairwoman)

Van Ness Feldman, Michael McBride, Esquire

 

8:40 – 9:35

Network Airline Panel

American Airlines, Beverly Goulet, Vice President of Corporate Development & Treasurer

United Continental Holdings Inc., John Gebo, Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis

U.S. Airways Group Inc., Scott Kirby, President

 

Fresh Faced Growth Companies

Coyote Logistics LLC, Jeff Silver, Chief Executive Officer

Echo Global Logistics Inc., Douglas Waggoner, Chief Executive Officer

Evans Delivery Company, Bert Evans, President

GENCO Supply Chain Solutions, Herb Shear, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

 

9:40 – 10:35

Transportation Leasing Panel

Air Transport Services Group Inc., Joe Hete, President & Chief Executive Officer

Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Inc., William Flynn, President & Chief Executive Officer

Ryder System Inc., Art Garcia, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

 

Airline Policy & Labor Panel

Air Line Pilots Association, Captain Lee Moak, President

Air Transport Association, Sharon Pinkerton, Senior Vice President Legislative & Regulatory Policy

Allied Pilots Association, Captain David Bates, President

MIT International Center for Air Transportation, William Swelbar, Research Engineer

 

10:40 – 11:35

Short-Line Rail Panel

Florida East Coast Railway, James Hertwig, President & Chief Executive Officer

Indiana Rail Road Company, Thomas Hoback, President & Chief Executive Officer

Patriot Rail Corp., Stan Wlotko, Senior Vice President of Operations

RailAmerica  Inc., John Giles, President & Chief Executive Officer

Watco Companies, Rick Webb, Chief Executive Officer

Private LTL Panel

Estes Express Lines, Billy Hupp, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President

New England Motor Freight, Thomas Connery, Chief Operating Officer & Executive Vice President

SJ Consulting Group, Satish Jindel, President

Tranzact Technologies, Michael Regan, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

 

11:40 – 12:40

Keynote Lunch – Outlook for the World Economy and What it Means for Financial Markets

Asianomics, Dr. Jim Walker, Managing Director

Wolfe Trahan & Co., François Trahan, Vice-Chairman, Chief Investment Strategist

 

12:45-1:40

Public LTL Panel

Arkansas Best Corp., Judy McReynolds, President & Chief Executive Officer

Con-way Inc., Stephen Bruffett, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

Old Dominion Freight Line Inc., Wes Frye, Senior Vice President of Finance & Chief Financial Officer

Saia Inc., Jim Darby, Chief Financial Officer

 

Shippers Panel

Ansell Healthcare Products, Andrew Gillespie, Director of Global Logistics & Transportation

Armada Supply Chain Solutions, Paul Newbourne, Senior Vice President, Operations

MillerCoors, LLC, Eduard Jimenez, Manager Logistics Strategy & Controls, Customer Supply Chain

Owens Corning, Mike Cramer, Director of Logistics & Customer Service

TTS LLC, Jeff Brashares, Senior Vice President of Sales & National Accounts

 

1:45 - 2:40

Truck Equipment Panel

Cummins Inc., Ed Pence, Vice President & General Manager, Heavy Duty Engine Business

Freightliner Trucks, Brian Cota, Vice President of Sales

Wabash National Corp., Richard Giromini, President & Chief Executive Officer

 

Truckload  Capacity Panel

American Trucking Associations, Governor Bill Graves, President & Chief Executive Officer

Covenant Transportation Group Inc., David Parker, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

CRST International Inc., John Smith, President & Chief Executive Officer

Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, Todd Spencer, Executive Vice President

Walmart Stores, Inc., Kelly Abney - Vice President of International Logistics

 

2:45 -3:40

Intermodal Panel

Hub Group Inc., David Yeager, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc., Paul Bergant, Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer & President of the Intermodal Division

Pacer International Inc., Dan Avramovich, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Schneider National, Inc., Christopher Lofgren, Chief Executive Officer

 

Bulk Transport Panel

BASF Corporation, Lynn Kuney, North America Rail & Intermodal

Kirby Corp., Joe Pyne, President & Chief Executive Officer

Lipo Chemicals, Al Giunchi, Transportation Manager

 

3:45 -  4:40

Public Truckload Panel

Celadon Group Inc., Stephen Russell, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Knight Transportation Inc., Kevin Knight, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Swift Transportation Company, Jerry Moyes, Chief Executive Officer

Werner Enterprises Inc., Derek Leathers, President & Chief Operating Officer

 

 

4:45 - 5:45

Cocktail Reception: Companies & Investors

 

 

 

Wednesday, May 25

                6:00 – 7:30pm:  Dinner (for confirmed clients only)

·       UPS, David Abney, Chief Operating Officer


Wolfe Trahan & Co. Global Transportation Conference

Wednesday, May 25 & Thursday, May 26, 2011

Fordham University, School of Law at Lincoln Center, 140 W. 62nd Street, New York, New York

 

        Thursday, May 26

Time

Track 1: McNally Amphitheater

Track 2: Room 205

7:15am

Breakfast & Registration

7:45 – 8:00

Opening Remarks: Ed Wolfe, Wolfe Trahan & Co.

8:00 – 8:55

Public Rail Panel

CSX Corp., Derrick Smith, Vice President of Finance 

Norfolk Southern Corp., Marta Stewart, Treasurer

 

Unique Domestic Transportation Panels

Forward Air Corp., Bruce Campbell, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer

Quality Distribution Inc., Gary Enzor, Chief Executive Officer

Roadrunner Transportation Systems Inc., Mark Diblasi, President & Chief Executive Officer

Universal Truckload Services Inc., Don Cochran, President & Chief Executive Officer

 

9:00 – 9:55

Global Forwarders Panel

CEVA Logistics, John Pattullo, Chief Executive Officer

Chassis Partners LLC, William Rooney, Partner

DSV A/S, Jens Bjorn Andersen, Chief Executive Officer

Panalpina World Transport Ltd., Marco Gadola, Chief Financial Officer

 

Rail Inside Freight Panel

Consumers United for Rail Equity, Robert Szabo, Executive Director & Counsel

Law Offices of Louis E. Gitomer, Louis Gitomer, Principal

Surface Transportation Board, Francis P. Mulvey, Commissioner

Thompson Hine LLP, Jeffrey Moreno, Partner

United Transportation Union, Frank Wilner, Economist & Director of Public Relations

 

10:00 - 10:45

Public Rail and OEM Panel

FreightCar America Inc., Mike MacMahon, Vice President of Business Development & Strategy

Union Pacific Corp., Robert Knight, Chief Financial Officer

 

Dry Bulk Panel

Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc., Alan Ginsberg, Chief Financial Officer

 

10:50 - 11:45

Shippers Inside Freight Panel

The Estee Lauder Companies Inc., Peter Goulding, Executive Director of Global Logistics

Johnson & Johnson Sales & Logistics Company LLC, George Harry, Director of Global Transportation

MillerCoors, LLC, Eduard Jimenez, Manager Logistics Strategy & Controls, Customer Supply Chain

Walmart Stores, Inc., Kelly Abney - Vice President of International Logistics

Liquid Tanker Panel

General Maritime Corp., Jeffrey Pribor, Chief Financial Officer

TORM, Sune Mikkelsen, Vice President, Corporate Finance & Investor Relations

 

11:50 – 1:00

Keynote Speaker – Insights from a Rail Legend

Hunter Harrison, Former Chief Executive Officer of CNI

1:05 – 2:00

Transport Views from Top PE Firms

Apollo Management, Stan Parker, Senior Partner

Fenway Partners, John Anderson, Managing Director

HCI Equity Partners, Scott Rued, Managing Partner

Warburg Pincus LLC, Alex Berzofsky, Managing Director

 

Express & Airfreight  Panel

AFMS, Mike Erickson, Chief Executive Officer

Boeing Commercial Planes, Tom Hoang, Regional Director of Cargo Marketing & Environmental Strategy

Tyco International, Chris Corrado, Senior Director of Global Logistics

United States Postal Service, Joseph Corbett, Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President

 

2:05 -  3:00

Truck OEM & Capacity Panel

ACT Research, Kenny Vieth, Senior Partner & Analyst

Navistar International Corp., Jim Hebe, Senior Vice President, North American Sales Operations

Rush Enterprises Inc., Rusty Rush, President & Chief Executive Officer