What Happened?
Chicago, IL-based Echo Global Logistics Appointed Tim Kutz as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Echo Global Logistics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ECHO) is a leading provider of technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management services. Headquartered in Chicago with more than 30 offices around the country, Echo offers freight brokerage and Managed Transportation solutions for all major modes, including truckload, partial truckload, LTL, intermodal, and expedited. Echo maintains a proprietary, web-based technology platform that compiles and analyzes data from its network of over 40,000 transportation providers to serve clients across a wide range of industries and simplify the critical tasks involved in transportation management.
About the Person
Tim Kutz comes to Echo from Veritiv, where he led Unisource, a $4B distributor formerly owned by Bain Capital, through the pre- and post-merger integration with xpedx, a $5B distributor formerly part of International Paper, to form Veritiv. A unique member of the Unisource executive team, Kutz held roles in strategy, marketing and IT. As Executive Vice President of Global Strategy & Marketing Creation, he led a team that transformed Unisource`s operating model and delivered a business strategy that resulted in the company`s first sustainable growth. Kutz was originally hired as Unisource`s CIO, and in that position he developed and executed an IT transformation strategy that increased operational excellence and required significantly less expense. Prior to his work at Unisource, Kutz was a partner at Accenture, where he developed and led the implementation of IT transformation and supply chain strategies for multibillion-dollar manufacturing and distribution businesses. Kutz began his career at Union Camp Corporation implementing supply chain technologies to support the $1.2B fine paper division. Kutz graduated magna cum laude from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, earning a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research.
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