Flavio Batista
Vice President, Sales, North America
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean
Brent Berg
Vice President, Business Development
Thorco Projects

Jeniffer Boukal
Supply Base Manager, Global Logistics
Deere & Company
Jeniffer Boukal is the supply base manager for Global Logistics in charge of Ocean, Drayage, Freight Forwarding, and Air at John Deere, a global agricultural, construction, forestry, and commercial equipment manufacturer. She is responsible for the Deere global sourcing functions for internal and external customers to their contracted ocean carriers, drayage carriers, and Freight Forwarding suppliers. Boukal joined Deere & Company in February 2007 and has held multiple positions within JDAS, WWL, and IM&S. Some of her experiences include Pilot, GIS, Engineering, IT, Metrics, North American Transportation, Drayage, International Transportation, Global Strategic Sourcing, and Leading Global Cross Functional Teams. Prior to working for Deere, Boukal worked for J2 Aviation and Walmart. Boukal graduated from Daniel Webster College with an MBA, Southern Illinois University with a BS and AS in Global Business Management and Aviation, University of Wisconsin Madison with a BS and AS in Audio and Electrical Engineering.
Peter Bouwhuis
CEO
Noelle Burke
Vice President, Project Management, Energy
Agility
Jim Burkhard
Vice President, Global Oil Markets, Scenarios, and Integrated Services
IHS Markit
Kathy Canaan
Director, Logistics and Export Compliance
Fluor
Brandy Christian
President and CEO
Port of New Orleans
Karen Clarke
Corporate Vice President, Oil and Gas
deugro (USA)
Adolpf Colacco
Founder and CEO
e2Log
Chris Doyle
Materials Manager
Shell
Robert Drew
General Manager, Logistics
Tata International
Amanda Eglinton
Associate Director, Economics and Country Risk
IHS Markit
W. Talon Felts
Logistics Manager
KBR
David Ferebee
Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Lone Star Transportation
Jeromy Hofmeister
Logistics Manager
Vogt Power International
Anders Hyrup
President
SAL Heavy Lift
Sara Johnson
Executive Director, Global Economics
IHS Markit
Merritt Lane
President and CEO
Canal Barge
Benjamin Liewald
Senior Vice President
Fracht FWO USA
Elizabeth Lowe
Counsel
Venable
Rafael McDonald
Director, Power, Gas, Coal, and Renewables
IHS Markit
Dennis Mottola
Global Logistics Consultant
Janet Nodar
Senior Editor, Project and Heavy-Lift Shipping, JOC, Maritime & Trade
IHS Markit
Susan Oatway
Senior Analyst, Multipurpose and Breakbulk Shipping
Drewry Maritime Research
Kyriacos Panayides
Managing Director
AAL Shipping
Charlie Papavizas
Partner
Winston & Strawn
Marco Poisler
Chief Operating Officer, Global Energy & Capital Projects
UTC Overseas
Yorck Niclas Prehm
Head of Research
Toepfer Transport
Brian Putallaz
Senior Commodity Manager
GE
Joye Runfola
Logistics Principle, Americas
Air Liquide USA
Frank Schroder
Director, Corporate Supply Chain and Compliance, CB&I Storage Tank Solutions
McDermott
Richard Seeg
CEO
Intermarine
Brittany Smith
Logistics Manager, Global Procurement Center Americas
Linde Engineering Americas
Stephen Spoljaric
Corporate Manager, Global Logistics
Bechtel
Will Terrill
President and CEO
US Ocean

Peter Tirschwell
Vice President, Maritime & Trade
IHS Markit
Peter Tirschwell is vice president of Maritime & Trade, IHS Markit, publisher of The Journal of Commerce, JOC.com, Dredging & Port Construction, Safety at Sea, PIERS maritime trade data, and JOC events such as TPM. In his expanded role within IHS Markit, he is responsible for all editorial content appearing in Maritime & Trade media and events. A career transportation journalist, Tirschwell has been a reporter, West Coast bureau chief, editor-in-chief, and publisher of The Journal of Commerce in his 20-plus-year career with the company, which began in 1992. He is the founder and chairman of the annual TPM Conference in Long Beach, California, one of the world's largest shipping events, and led the development of the JOC Port Productivity project, the first global database of port performance. He writes a regular column in The Journal of Commerc
Jeff Uecker
Global Supply Chain Manager
Goldwind Americas
Andrew Young
Manager, OG&C Functional Logistics
Bechtel