Luca Bussani has been employed by Zurich Insurance since 2008 as Risk Engineer managing marine and goods in transit risks. His involvement includes hazard analysis, risk assessments and post-loss investigations.  More

Steve Cameron trained as a deck officer in reefer vessels, transferring ashore to the cargo division of Cunard Steam Ship. He was then part of a founding management team that over 20 years developed a specialist operator into one of the leading players in West Africa.  More

Ulises J. Carrillo is the Vice President, Global Logistics for Dole Food Company, headquartered in Westlake Village, California. He is responsible for defining, establishing, and articulating the corporate vision to maximize Dole’s logistics services and assets around the world. Additionally, Mr. Carillo manages the procurement of logistics-related capital assets and capital approvals.  More

Alfred has extensive experience in container transportation, port developments, logistics planning, IT applications, human resources and cold-chain management throughout his affiliation with the shipping industry for the past 3 decades. Currently, he is a council member serving both The Japan Society of Hong Kong and The Japan Hong Kong Society in Tokyo.  More

Dermott Crombie was appointed Vice President, Global Marine Solutions in 2004 and is responsible for overseeing Thermo King’s activities and long-term growth in both the container and the genset business globally. Dr. Crombie joined Thermo King in 1987, and has more than 20 years’ experience in the transport temperature control industry.  More

Michael Dempsey is a Senior Vice President for IDENTEC SOLUTIONS, a leading global supplier of active RFID and GPS based systems in the maritime sector. Mr. Dempsey has more than 15 years of experience in process automation technologies and is an industry thought leader in the automation in container terminal and port operations.  More

Malcom Dodd is Programme Manager of the Post Harvest Innovation Programme, a public/private partnership in South Africa which has the vision: 'To develop an innovative and globally competitive fresh fruit industry which grows the economy, jobs, skills and support services'.  More

Eric Eng was recently appointed Vice President, Global Reefer Trade, APL Co and is responsible for overseeing the company’s global reefer activities and long-term growth. Mr Eng is based at their Head Office in Singapore, heading a team of reefer specialists offering advanced CA & CT technologies to their global customers for their shipment of fresh fruits.  More

Claus Ellemann-Jensen joined CMA CGM in March 2007 and has held his current position as Vice President Reefer Trades since January 2009.
Previously, he worked for 20 years at A.P.Moller-Maersk in various positions, including reefer projects across Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the French West Indies.  More

Frank Franke is a journalist and author and the Founder of Wings of Help/ Luftfahrt ohne Grenzen e. V. He is also the founder of the organization "Journalists and Friends". He has many years of experience in aid projects worldwide, including Pakistan (earthquake and current flooding disaster), Haiti, Banda Ache, Tschernobyl, Turkey, South Africa and Peru.  More

Peter Friedmann plays a key role in developing U.S. and international ocean and waterborne transportation policy. 
He serves as Executive Director of the Agriculture Transportation Coalition, the organization which the Journal of Commerce has identified as the “principle voice of agriculture exporters in US transportation policy.” The AgTC is the means by which agriculture exporters and importers pursue favorable transportation policy in truck, rail, port and ocean carrier practices.  More

Otto de Groot has founded his company Expertisebureau Harmsen & de Groot B.V. together with his former business partner in 1981; since 2004 he is the sole owner. The company currently has more than 30 staff members and a subsidiary for international claim handling in Portugal. Harmsen & de Groot also has a joint venture with a Spanish business conducting quality controls.  More

After a career at sea, Harm de Haan started working as marine/cargo surveyor in 1974 and became partner of    P. de Beer & Co b.v. (in 1980) and later director of BMT de Beer b.v., Rotterdam (2002). His specialisation is the transport of perishable cargo. Over more than 25 years, he has been investigating claims and was consultant on the subject to a number of major container operators and carriers of conventional reefer cargo.  More

As Regional Director of HPL for Europe & Africa at Hellmann Worldwide Logistics since October 2008, Ralf Heske is in charge of two of the most competitive markets in the reefer/ perishable logistics world.  More

Palle Jørgensen is director and general manager of the Johnson Controls Global Container Efficiency organization, and is responsible for overseeing the company’s global activities in reefer container temperature control, tracking and condition monitoring.
Johnson Controls is the market leader in reefer container communications with a full range of products, systems and services aimed at improving the efficiency in container operation through tracking, remote monitoring and control.  More

Deon Joubert was born and educated in South Africa. He studied at the University of Stellenbosch and graduated with a BSc Agric, then a Post Graduate MSc in Applied Economics.
He worked as an Economist for the Dept Agriculture for 8 years and played rugby for the Bellville Rugby Club First team. He is member of both the SA Agricultural Economic Society and the SA Society for Agricultural Extension.   More

Hans-Rüdiger Kasper joined the company April 1st 2010 to start airfreight operations for perishable products in Frankfurt airport in Germany for K+N and to build up international traffic to and from the already existing perishable network of K+N and to help expand the network internationally. He has more than 32 years experience in perishable airfreight logistics.  More

Ken Kinscher is Manager in the Corporate Finance / Merger & Acquisitions Department of M.M.Warburg & CO, and is responsible for the logistic sector as well as maritime equity.
M.M.Warburg & CO is the largest private owned bank in Germany. The focus of the Corporate Finance Department is on mid sized deals especially of family owned companies. Beside services regarding Mergers & Acquisition, M.M.Warburg Corporate Finance provides all services regarding Equity Capital Markets as well as Debt Advisory.   More

After obtaining university degrees in vetinerary science and agronomy Horst Lang went into industry. Following a three year stint as registered controller for ecological products in Southern Germany he was appointed head of quality assurance at Globus SB Warenhaus GmbH & Co KG in 1996. Three years later he assumed responsibility for quality assurance and environment for both the Food and Non-Food section within the organisation.   More

Stephane Lemaire graduated from French epsci ESSEC group Business School. He joined Air France as Sales Manager Cargo in charge of Northern part of France based in Lille in 1986. In 1990 he joined the Air France Cargo Capacity Management as Asian Sector Manager. In 1994 he was part of the project group in charge of introducing Revenue Management System and then occupied several positions in this department, the  last one being Revenue Management Cargo Director.  More

Derk van Mackelenbergh was appointed as Managing Director of Eurofrigo, in October 2001, where his job entails the operation of two public refrigerated warehouses that contain 67’000 pallet places, being responsible for overseeing the company’s activities as well as its long term growth and future projects.  More

Sean Maguire is the founder and CEO of Port Solutions Inc., a provider of advanced wireless telemetry services to the asset management, container ports, and shipping industry. Sean is a seasoned technology professional with over 15 years of experience in hardware design, business development, IT application and product development in both established and start-up companies.  More

Sjaak Melissant, Managing Director of Coolboxx, specializing in intermodal transport solutions. With his knowledge of road transportation he is responsible for expanding their intermodal network by combining the strength of the Coolboxx shareholders: Samskip, Visbeen, Post-Kogeko with reliable partners, offering an alternative to road transport for temperature controlled transport across most of Europe.     More

Paul joined the Thomas Miller Group in 1981 after 5 years in shipping with Mitsui OSK Lines in London. He was seconded to the TT Club where he worked in a variety of claims management and underwriting roles before becoming the Club's first Chief Executive in 1999, a position he held for 10 years.  More

Mr Andrew Ngan has been recently appointed Assistant Vice President, Global Reefer Management in MOL Liner Ltd and is responsible for overseeing the company’s activities and long-term growth of reefer trade globally.  More

Ole Schack Petersen has been with Damco since 6 April 2009. Based in Copenhagen, he is Director and Head of the global reefer logistics activities of Damco.
Mr. Schack Petersen comes from a position as CEO of LCL AB, Sweden, the NYK Group reefer logistics company where he worked from 2004 to 2008.  More

 As International Program Manager for Sensitech’s Professional Services division, Jesus is responsible for coordinating and implementing programs and projects designed to assist companies, involved in the manufacture or distribution of temperature sensitive food and pharmaceutical products, improve their cold chains. Jesus delivers cold chain visibility solutions to Sensitech customers located worldwide with a special focus on Southern Hemisphere perishables.   More

Alan Robertson is the Director and Owner of Webster Robertson Ltd, based in Kent, UK. He specialises in providing consultancy and special services for the container sector of the maritime industry.
Mr. Robertson formed Webster Robertson Ltd in 2006 following a 5 year period as Senior Director, Container Supply at CP Ships, where he significantly improved the profitability of the business by developing logistics plans, and driving forward cost efficiencies in the container fleet operation.  More

Mrs. Claudia Roller was appointed as Chairwoman of Port of Hamburg Marketing in 2008 and is responsible for representing the interests of the Port of Hamburg and the companies that are the members of the Port of Hamburg Marketing registered association.
Prior to joining Port of Hamburg Marketing, Mrs. Roller has already gained 40 years of experience in this industry, working for such companies as Hapag Lloyd AG (1969-1981) and Hamburger Hafen and Logistik AG (HHLA) (1984-2008).  More

Mr. Sawai studied Mechanical Design & Heat-transfer Engineering at Osaka University. In 1981, he joined Daikin as designer for container refrigeration machinery. He was part of the design team that developed the best selling Scroll Compressor Reefer Unit, the LXE reefer series.  More

Martin Schlingensiepen was born in Düsseldorf on July 19, 1952. After completing his school education in Solingen and military service in 1971 and 1973 respectively, he started his career with Lufthansa as a Management Trainee in Frankfurt, Cologne and New York. In 1977 he joined the personnel department of Lufthansa in Frankfurt. In the same year he enrolled at the Academy for World Trade for evening studies.  More

Mr. Mathijs Slangen joined Seabury Group in 2009 as a Senior Analyst where he is involved in the development of the maritime branch of the Cargo Advisory Group. In his role he contributed to the development of the global ocean trade database as well as the ocean forecast models.  More

Andy Smith, vice president of products for Purfresh, joined the company in 2007. Under his direction, the company successfully introduced Intellipur®, the produce industry’s next generation informatics software. Mr. Smith is currently working with the USDA, University of California, Davis, and University of Florida on multiple projects, and recently served on the board of directors for the Center for Food Safety, University of Georgia.  More

Phillip graduated from St Andrews in 1997 having previously spent two years with Hertie AG in Germany. Hooked on retail Phillip then joined Marks and Spencer and has spent the last 13 years in a variety of commercial and project management roles.  More

James Taeckens is a senior product manager for Carrier Transicold Container Products Group, the global leader in container refrigeration systems and generator sets. Carrier Transicold is a division of Carrier Corp., a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX).   More