Lecture Series
Event Date

April 19, 2012 at 7:30AM - April 19, 2012 at 9:00AM

Location

LocationE51-315
Tang Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Complimentary lunch served at 11:30 am

Woody Richardson
Vice President of Engineering and Business Transformation for Schneider National, Inc.

Topic: Challenges in the Truckload Trucking Market

Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012

Location:  E51-315
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Time: 11:30 am – Complimentary lunch updated
12:00 pm – Lecture begins

Bio:
Woody Richardson is Vice President of Engineering and Business Transformation for Schneider National, Inc. Schneider National is a provider of truckload, intermodal, brokerage and logistics services having revenues in 2011 of 3.4 billion dollars. In his 30 years at Schneider National Woody has served in a number of positions, including; the start-up and leadership of Schneider National’s Intermodal service, the leadership responsibility for over 1.5 billion dollars in Logistics, Intermodal, and Brokerage purchasing, leadership of the Marketing and Pricing functions, National Account Sales and Sales Administration responsibilities, and for the past five years has been actively engage in the Information Systems transformation of all Schneider processes.

Prior to working at Schneider National Woody worked as an Operations Research Analyst for the Burlington Northern Railroad.

Mr. Richardson has S.M. in Civil Engineering/Transportation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

More information on the Speaker Series can be found on the Distinguished Speaker Series webpage.