Speakers

• Andrew Boyle

  Strategic Advisor & Board Director

  Boyle Transportation, an Andlauer Healthcare Group company

  • Economic and Government Update on the Trucking Industry

    Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 9:15—10:00 AM

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  Andrew Boyle

  Strategic Advisor & Board Director

  Boyle Transportation, an Andlauer Healthcare Group company

  • Economic and Government Update on the Trucking Industry

    Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 9:15—10:00 AM

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  Andrew Boyle was co-president and is now an advisor to Boyle Transportation, a firm that provides secure, validated transportation services to select clients in the biotech/pharmaceutical and government/defense sectors. Boyle is a subsidiary of Andlauer Healthcare Group, a Toronto Stock Exchange-listed provider of healthcare logistics services. Prior to returning to the company in 2003, Andrew was an investment banker with J.P. Morgan. He earned an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and an AB from Bowdoin College, where his academic performance was undistinguished and his athletic career was underwhelming.
  From 2023-2024, Andrew served as chairman of the American Trucking Associations. He’s on the boards of the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI), Northwestern University’s Transportation Center, and Eastern Bank. In 2024 he joined the board of Birdseye Security Solutions, a portfolio company of Greylion Capital.
  

   

• Michael W. Braddock

  Chief Business Officer

  Frontier Scientific Solutions

  • What is a “Free Trade Zone” and What Are the Benefits For Shippers?

    Tuesday, April 15, 2025 | 12:00—12:30 PM

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  Michael W. Braddock

  Chief Business Officer

  Frontier Scientific Solutions

  • What is a “Free Trade Zone” and What Are the Benefits For Shippers?

    Tuesday, April 15, 2025 | 12:00—12:30 PM

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  Michael Braddock II, Chief Business Officer, is a seasoned leader in the pharmaceutical industry, bringing a wealth of expertise in client acquisition, market expansion, and strategic partnerships to Frontier Scientific Solutions. Specializing in Foreign Trade Zones (FTZ) and end-to-end supply chain solutions, Michael has consistently optimized global logistics to enhance client efficiencies. He plays a critical role in identifying new market opportunities and driving revenue growth while maintaining strong industry partnerships that align with emerging trends and foster innovation. Known for his client-centric approach, Michael excels in building long-term partnerships and delivering customized solutions that meet the evolving needs of pharmaceutical organizations.

• Scott Cornell

  2nd VP, Transportation, Crime, and Theft Specialist

  Travelers Insurance

  • TAPA’s New Freight Broker Security Standards

    Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 10:00—10:40 AM

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  Scott Cornell

  2nd VP, Transportation, Crime, and Theft Specialist

  Travelers Insurance

  • TAPA’s New Freight Broker Security Standards

    Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 10:00—10:40 AM

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  Scott Cornell, National Practice Lead, Transportation and Crime & Theft Specialist, has been with Travelers for 23 years and currently leads the Cargo/Transportation division. Prior to his current role, he conducted investigations for 29 years, specializing in cargo theft and transportation, internal theft, embezzlement, and corporate investigations.

   

  Scott lead the effort in creating a fully dedicated cargo theft unit for Travelers in [2005], known as the Special Investigations Group (SIG). He is also a co-inventor of multiple patented processes for methods and systems that provide customized risk mitigation and recovery solutions to insurance customers. He and the SIG team regularly partner with law enforcement and cargo task forces nationwide. Since 2009, the SIG team has recovered over $100 million in stolen cargo for Travelers clients.

   

  Scott currently serves as the Chairman of the Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA).

   

  He is a recognized expert in cargo theft and prevention, having been an instructor and speaker at numerous industry engagements, including the American Trucking Associations (ATA), International Association of Special Investigation Units (IASIU), Miami Dade PD Cargo, Midwest Cargo Summit, Texas Cargo Summit, Trucking Industry Defense Association (TIDA), Truckload Carriers Association (TCA), Transportation Loss Control (TLC), Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA), and the National Cargo Theft Law Enforcement Summit.

   

  Scott's expertise has been featured in prominent media outlets such as CNBC, CBS MoneyWatch, Vice TV, NBC News Now, Yahoo Finance and the New York Post. 

• Andrey Drotenko

  President of Strategic Relations

  Verified Carrier

  • Carrier Vetting Services Industry Update

    Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 11:55—12:30 PM

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  Andrey Drotenko

  President of Strategic Relations

  Verified Carrier

  • Carrier Vetting Services Industry Update

    Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 11:55—12:30 PM

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  Andrey Drotenko is Verified Carrier's President of Strategic Relations. With over 14 years of customer and relationship business development, he is passionate about driving the vision forward through strategic relationships, establishing
  Verified Carrier as the industry standard for carrier vetting in order to root out fraud in freight. Andrey leverages his diverse experience, which spans multiple industries and continents, to bring a global perspective and an innovative approach to problem solving.

• Nick Erdmann

  Director of Business Development

  Vectura Risk Management

  • Security Escorts – Panel Discussion

    Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 11:10—11:55 AM

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  Nick Erdmann

  Director of Business Development

  Vectura Risk Management

  • Security Escorts – Panel Discussion

    Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 11:10—11:55 AM

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  Nick Erdmann is Director of Business Development at Vectura Risk Management, where he specializes in ensuring the safe delivery of high-value and highly targeted shipments, including pharmaceuticals, through advanced cargo escort services. Drawing from over two decades in supply chain security, Nick brings deep expertise in cargo protection, regulatory compliance, and risk management to the pharmaceutical industry.
  
  Nick is actively involved in several transportation security associations, where he contributes to developing industry best practices for pharmaceutical supply chain protection. His mission is to advance supply chain security through innovative monitoring solutions and escort services.
  

• Charles H. Forsaith

  Vice President, PCSC

  Healthcare Distribution Alliance

  • Introduction/Welcome
  • Cargo Theft Legislation Update Tax Incentives/Relief Legislative Proposal Supply Chain Security Programs
  • New Supply Chain Security Products/Technology You May Not Be Aware Of
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  Charles H. Forsaith

  Vice President, PCSC

  Healthcare Distribution Alliance

  • Introduction/Welcome
  • Cargo Theft Legislation Update Tax Incentives/Relief Legislative Proposal Supply Chain Security Programs
  • New Supply Chain Security Products/Technology You May Not Be Aware Of

  Chuck Forsaith is the Vice President of the Healthcare Distribution Alliance’s Pharmaceutical Cargo Security Coalition (PCSC), which offers supply chain security intelligence; access to contacts from industry, government, and vendor trade disciplines; as well as education opportunities to its membership. The Coalition, which Forsaith formed in 2006, brings together professionals from a wide variety of disciplines, to monitor the security of pharmaceutical goods in transit and storage, all over the world. The PCSC became part of HDA in 2017.

  Forsaith has been involved in pharmaceutical supply chain security for more than 20 years, following a career as both a New Hampshire municipal and State Police officer. He also, directed security operations for a United States military intelligence gathering installation.

   

  He has lectured both domestically and internationally in the disciplines of supply chain and site security for such organizations as the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Food and Drug
  

  Administration, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Department of Homeland Security, the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Customs, the United States Merchant Marine Academy, the Partnership for Safe Medicines, ASIS and TAPA. He is an active member of the American Society of Industrial Security, the Transported Asset Protection Association, the Overseas Security Advisory Council and the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators.

   

  Forsaith has either authored articles for, or been featured in articles published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the UK's London Times, Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Financial Times, Business Week, American Shipper, Security Info Watch, Life Science Reader, Security Technology Executive, Cargo Security International and Homeland Security Today.
  

   

• Jeffrey Gale

  Vice President

  Garrison Security Group, LLC

  • Security Escorts – Panel Discussion

    Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 11:10—11:55 AM

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  Jeffrey Gale

  Vice President

  Garrison Security Group, LLC

  • Security Escorts – Panel Discussion

    Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 11:10—11:55 AM

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  Jeffrey Gale served with the New Jersey State Police for 26 years, retiring in 2011 at the rank of Captain. In addition to various assignments in uniform, he also served as a Detective, Firearms Instructor, Range Master, Field Training Liaison, and Adjunct Instructor at the New Jersey State Police Academy.

   

  After retiring, Jeff and his business partner, James South, founded two companies; South and Associates LLC, a private investigations firm, and Garrison Security Group, which provides security services. Both continue to grow and conduct work nationally and internationally. Garrison Security Group has developed and operates executive protection teams for international corporations, provides armed and unarmed security services for corporate entities for high-risk terminations and asset protection, for high net-worth individuals, and security escort services for high-value cargo, including pharma product. Over the past 5 years alone, Garrison has safely escorted well in excess of $1 billion dollars in sensitive cargo across the US and Canada.
  

   

  Jeff was a member of the US Department of Homeland Security/US Secret Service National Threat and Evaluation Reporting (NTER) Working Group, is a Master Trainer for the NTER program, and has developed and provided training both nationally and internationally on a wide variety of safety and security related topics to over 100,000 law enforcement officers, members of the US military, school staff and administrators, and public and private sector employees and security professionals. Jeff is a member of both the Steering Committee and Operations Team of the NJ Statewide Threat Assessment Team (NJSTAT), and currently serves as an advisory board member to the National

  School Safety Alliance, as co-chair on the New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission - School/Justice Partnership and also on numerous national and statewide committees and working groups, including the NJ Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness Domestic Security Preparedness Task Force.

• Ronald Greene

  EVP, Intelligence and Risk

  Overhaul

  • Security Escorts – Panel Discussion

    Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 11:10—11:55 AM

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  Ronald Greene

  EVP, Intelligence and Risk

  Overhaul

  • Security Escorts – Panel Discussion

    Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 11:10—11:55 AM

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• Cynthia Hetherington

  President

  Hetherington Group

  • Tracking and Recovering Stolen Assets

    Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 2:30—3:30 PM

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  Cynthia Hetherington

  President

  Hetherington Group

  • Tracking and Recovering Stolen Assets

    Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 2:30—3:30 PM

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  Cynthia Hetherington, OSC, CFE is the Founder and CEO of Hetherington Group (Hg), a consulting, publishing, managed services, and training firm that leads in due diligence, corporate intelligence, and cyber investigations. She applies her expertise in library science and information systems to provide strategic insight into research and complex investigations. She has helped clients with thousands of cases involving internet investigations related to employees, intellectual property, and reputation management, uncovering relations between fraudulent associates and their assets using online sources and databases, and executing boots-on-the-ground operations. Her international investigations for Fortune 500 companies have honed her research skills in the Middle East, Europe, and Asia.
  

   

  She founded the OSINT Academy, a division of Hg, training thousands of investigators, security professionals, attorneys, accountants, auditors, military intelligence professionals, and federal, state, and local agencies on best practices. She leads a division of the OSINT Academy that is part of the National Cybersecurity Workforce Development Program funded by the NSA in collaboration with Dakota State University, the NSA, and Hetherington Group to provide comprehensive cyber intelligence instruction.

  She is an Adjunct Instructor in the College of Applied Science & Technology (CAST) at the University of Arizona and was a faculty member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).
  

   

  In 2024, Cynthia Hetherington will release "OSINT: The Authoritative Guide to Due Diligence," her fifth industry-leading reference book on cyber investigations. She is also the founder of OSMOSIS, the Association for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Professionals, which issues the industry's Open-Source Certification credential, the OSC.

   

  She mentors women and other underrepresented populations in the digital sphere, serves as a keynote speaker, and contributes at women-focused technology events and conferences across the U.S. She is a member of the Women in Security Forum and the Women’s Presidents Organization and serves on the Board of Advisors for Raven and the Board of Directors for Skull Games. She collaborates with The National Center for Women and Information Technology, CybHER.org, and RocketGirls at CyberSpace Camps at the Kennedy Space Center.

   

  She has been recognized as Women in IT USA’s 2022 Security Leader of the Year and the 2023 Advocate of the Year.

   

• Brent Hutto

  Chief Relationship Officer

  Truckstop

  • Shipment Load Boards – Bad Rap When It Comes To Security?

    Tuesday, April 15, 2025 | 3:30—4:15 PM

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  Brent Hutto

  Chief Relationship Officer

  Truckstop

  • Shipment Load Boards – Bad Rap When It Comes To Security?

    Tuesday, April 15, 2025 | 3:30—4:15 PM

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  Brent Hutto joined Truckstop.com 11 years ago and currently serves as the Chief Relationship Officer, which includes ensuring the health of all Truckstop.com’s external relationships with industry leaders and transportation technology companies. In his near three decades of experience in the freight transportation industry, he has developed experience of leadership in data analytics, marketing and media. Hutto speaks broadly within transportation including testifying to the Senate Transportation Committee. He is also published within supply chain media including the Harvard Business Review. Presently, he serves on the boards, committees, and has membership with TIA, CSCMP, NASSTRAC, SC&RA, ATA, TCA, NPTC, IANA, NITL and proudly serves on the board of the American Logistics Aide Network (ALAN) & Women in Trucking Foundation. He has been happily married to Teresa for 29 years and they have 6 children.

• Pete Mento

  Commercial Director, US Customs and Compliance

  DSV Air & Sea Inc.

  • Keynote: Current State of US-Based Tariffs

    Tuesday, April 15, 2025 | 8:40—9:40 AM

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  Pete Mento

  Commercial Director, US Customs and Compliance

  DSV Air & Sea Inc.

  • Keynote: Current State of US-Based Tariffs

    Tuesday, April 15, 2025 | 8:40—9:40 AM

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• Henry Moran

  Chief Operating Officer

  ASC Associates Ltd.

  • HDA Good Distribution Practice Program Update

    Tuesday, April 15, 2025 | 1:30—2:00 PM

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  Henry Moran

  Chief Operating Officer

  ASC Associates Ltd.

  • HDA Good Distribution Practice Program Update

    Tuesday, April 15, 2025 | 1:30—2:00 PM

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  Henry Moran has been involved in pharmaceutical logistics for more than 15 years. He joined ASC Associates in January 2016 as a Director and Chief Operating Officer. The role allows him to use his operational and academic experiences to support clients in all matters of Supply Chain Security and Good Distribution Practice compliance.

  Prior to joining ASC Associates, he worked for Mundipharma with responsibility for global supply & logistics, including performing risk evaluation and mitigation activities for pharmaceutical products in the Global Supply Chain.

  Prior to working at Mundipharma, Henry worked in numerous logistics roles in Hi-tech Electronics, Global Logistics and Freight Forwarding. Henry is a Six Sigma Black Belt and qualified Lead Auditor, he studied in the UK at the University of Plymouth and at University College Dublin and holds a Master’s in Business Studies specialising in Manufacturing and Logistics.

• Tony Pelli

  Practice Director, Security and Resilience

  BSI's Consulting Services

  • Global Supply Chain Disruption Summary

    Tuesday, April 15, 2025 | 9:40—10:30 AM

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  Tony Pelli

  Practice Director, Security and Resilience

  BSI's Consulting Services

  • Global Supply Chain Disruption Summary

    Tuesday, April 15, 2025 | 9:40—10:30 AM

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  Mr. Pelli has extensive experience conducting enterprise-level supply chain and security risk assessments for clients and their business partners. As the director of BSI’s Security and Resilience consulting team, he helps clients design, implement, and refine their risk mitigation programs and reduce risk in their supply chains, including the theft or diversion of product, intellectual property, and trade secrets. Mr. Pelli has also designed continuity, security, and inventory assessments, and mapped, assessed, and managed vendor risk in supply chains for Fortune 500 companies and US government agency supply chains. He has assisted in the successful implementation of risk and supplier management plans, policies, and procedures. He has performed supply chain work in over 30 countries and has spoken at industry events and universities in addition to being quoted in New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Telegraph, Business Insider, and numerous industry publications. Mr. Pelli has a degree in History and International Affairs from the University of Georgia.

• Curtis Salisbury

  Investigator North & Latin America

  Transit Risk Management

  • Cargo Theft in Mexico/LATAM

    Tuesday, April 15, 2025 | 11:15—12:00 PM

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  Curtis Salisbury

  Investigator North & Latin America

  Transit Risk Management

  • Cargo Theft in Mexico/LATAM

    Tuesday, April 15, 2025 | 11:15—12:00 PM

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  Curtis Salisbury serves as a senior investigator for North and Latin America at Transit Risk Management, a comprehensive risk assessment and management firm. With nearly 15 years with TRM, he has extensive experience in both straight and strategic cargo theft investigations.

   

  Mr. Salisbury has over 30 years experience working in Latin America as a consultant for several corporations. While working on various cases/claims in the U.S., his main role involves direct field investigations and coordination with law enforcement associates in Latin America.

   

  His fluency in Spanish and Portuguese leverages his ability to coordinate effectively with federal and state law enforcement agencies, as well as industry associates. The majority of his assignments are within Mexico, as well as U.S. border cities.

   

  Mr. Salisbury’s speaking engagements often focus on sharing insights, strategies and case studies for cargo security and risk management within the transportation /logistics industry.

• Jeffrey Short

  Vice President

  American Transportation Research Institute

  • Economic and Government Update on the Trucking Industry

    Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 9:15—10:00 AM

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  Jeffrey Short

  Vice President

  American Transportation Research Institute

  • Economic and Government Update on the Trucking Industry

    Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 9:15—10:00 AM

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  Jeffrey Short is Vice President of the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) and is based in Atlanta, GA.  His areas of expertise include transportation data management and analysis, trucking industry regulations, and alternative transportation fuels. Mr. Short is lead researcher for ATRI’s zero-emission truck and electric truck infrastructure research initiatives. He holds a BA from Emory University and an MS from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

• Gerard F. Smith

  Managing Partner

  Pezold, Smith, Hirschmann & Selvaggio LLC

  • Freight Loss/Damage Insurance Claims

    Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 1:30—2:30 PM

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  Gerard F. Smith

  Managing Partner

  Pezold, Smith, Hirschmann & Selvaggio LLC

  • Freight Loss/Damage Insurance Claims

    Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 1:30—2:30 PM

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  Gerard F. Smith is the managing partner for the New Jersey office of Pezold, Smith, Hirschmann &, and Selvaggio LLC. The New Jersey office of Pezold Smith Hirschmann & Selvaggio, LLC is located at One Broadway, Denville, New Jersey  Mr. Smith represents shippers, carriers, freight forwarders, freight brokers, and intermediaries in transportation matters and warehouses throughout the country. In addition to his extensive litigation background, he lectures on transportation subjects. He also assists his clients in the preparation of ocean contracts, NVOCC service contracts, motor carrier contracts, and freight forwarder contracts. Additionally, he teaches the course “Freight Claims in Plain English” modeled after the book authored by his partner George Pezold for the Transportation Logistics Council and the Transportation Intermediaries Association.  Mr. Smith is also the Municipal Court Judge in the Towns of Denville, Mine Hill, Mt. Arlington, Mountain Lakes, Rockaway Borough, Rockaway Township and Wharton.
  

• Tabatha Ward

  EVP of Growth - Surface Transportation Information Sharing & Analysis Center (ST-ISAC)

  Rogerco

  • Safeguarding Supply Chains From Business Email Compromise, Phishing, Smishing and Quishing

    Tuesday, April 15, 2025 | 2:00—3:00 PM

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  Tabatha Ward

  EVP of Growth - Surface Transportation Information Sharing & Analysis Center (ST-ISAC)

  Rogerco

  • Safeguarding Supply Chains From Business Email Compromise, Phishing, Smishing and Quishing

    Tuesday, April 15, 2025 | 2:00—3:00 PM

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  Tabatha Ward is an executive with nearly 20 years of experience across federal and commercial sectors, with a special interest in intersectional IT/OT threat vectors and surface transportation. As EVP of Growth at the Surface  Transportation Information Sharing Analysis Center | ST-ISAC, powered by ROGERCO), she excels in cultivating partnerships and building agile communities to achieve big goals. Tabatha holds a BBA in Business Law, and an MBA in Project Management. She is based in Peachtree City, GA with her children.