158. How drayage carriers handle the industry challenges
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Guest Name: Toni Ann Careccio , Director of Marketing at PortPro, Language: English, Publication date: Oct 15. 2021

Toni Ann Careccio is the Director of Marketing at PortPro - a technology company building a supply chain operating system starting with their first product, a drayage operating system and network - drayOS.

Toni is on the Board of Advisors for two investor-backed companies, Torch (https://torch3pl.com/) and Aloe Attiva (https://aloeattiva.com/). She is also a Co-Organizer of the New York Supply Chain meetup group (meetup.com/The-NewYork-SupplyChain-Meetup/).

Prior to PortPro, Toni was on the investment team at Edison partners, a 34-year-old growth equity firm based out of Princeton, NJ where most of her time was spent developing an investment thesis around Supply Chain and Logistics technology.

Toni started her career on Wall Street, working her way up from a Marketing intern to a VP on the electronic trading desk at Convergex - an institutional brokerage owned by the Bank of New York.  After almost 4 years at the firm, Toni resigned and received angel funding from two of her bosses to start and co-found her first trucking tech startup, Axle.

Some of the highlights of questions from the podcast including:

  • What is drayage and why is it so important in the supply chain?
  • What are the biggest obstacles and challenges facing drayage companies?
  • What are your other struggles when handling the industry challenges? Particularly in the U.S, how do you see the development of drayage carriers in the next five years from now?
  • Could you please share a little bit more about the possible improvement around drayage management? And what’s your thought on the role of technology in improving the process & efficiency of drayage management?
  • Some other key takeaways.

Connect with Toni on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toni-ann-careccio-33211b46/

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