Week In Review : Corporate Appointments

Ahern Jayson Ahern, who retired in December as acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, has joined the Chertoff Group, a security-consulting group established last year by former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. Ahern's hiring has not been formally advertised through a press release, but the veteran law enforcement official is listed on the company's Web site...

Geodis, the logistics subsidiary of SNCF Group, has appointed Bruno Mandrin to director of its groupage and express division. Mandrin, who entered the transport and logistics industry in 1977, joined Geodis Calberson in 1994. He became deputy director of the groupage division in May 2009. The division comprises about 11,000 employees across 160 sites in five European countries. Gilles...

Harding The White House announced Monday that President Obama intends to nominate retired Army Major Gen. Robert A. Harding as administrator of the Transportation Security Administration. He is the second candidate for the job after Erroll Southers, a police chief with the Los Angeles World Airports, withdrew his name for consideration in January because of questions about how he handled a...

Jerry Ulm, global carrier relations leader at Owens Corning, died March 1 at his home in Perrysburg, Ohio, after a long illness. He is credited with putting in place innovative policies to improve relations with core trucking providers to reduce the burden of doing business with Owens Corning. The company made it a policy to help truckers by reducing delays getting in and out of their...

DSW Distribution Centers, a Southern California third-party logistics company, has promoted Liz Penrose to vice president of administration, and Janice Bowman to vice president of operations. DSW is a privately owned warehousing and transportation company specializing in temperature controlled distribution services for food and beverage and pharmaceutical shippers. ...

The Port of Seattle said Friday that Linda Styrk, director of seaport marketing, has been chosen to head its seaport division. Styrk came to the port in 2005, after serving as president of the office and warehouse operation for Universal Freight Forwarders in Seattle. Styrk also spent 12 years with APL. Tay Yoshitani, the port's chief executive officer, said Styrk "understands the com...

Swiss WorldCargo has appointed Omar Bragatto, head of flight optimization, to director of contribution management. Bragatto will report to Ashwin Bhat, managing director of transportation management. In this new position, Bragatto replaces Christian Wyss, who will serve as head of cargo procurement and will report to Oliver Evans, chief cargo officer for SWISS. On the product manageme...

Agility has appointed Hans Hickler as chief executive officer of its Asia-Pacific region. Hickler Hickler joins Agility from DHL, where he was CEO for global customer solutions, based in the United States. He was responsible for leading the development and sale of customer services for all DHL business units including DHL supply chain, warehousing and distribution, forwarding and express p...

Evergreen Marine Corp. (Taiwan) Ltd. has announced the promotion of several senior executives: • President Jack Yen will become vice chairman. • Capt. C.J. Wang, chief executive vice president, has been appointed president. • Anchor Chang, executive vice president of the international business division, to chief executive vice president. Yen joined Evergreen in 1978, serving in...

J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. said Douglas G. Duncan has joined its board of directors. Duncan, 59, recently retired as president and chief executive officer of the FedEx Freight, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. that provides regional and national less-than-truckload freight services. Duncan was founding CEO of FedEx Freight and held management positions in operations, sales and marke...