2022 Ground
Breakers

If the last few years revealed the vulnerabilities of the supply chain, it also showed us how interconnected its components are. As a result, we’re entering into a new era of innovation and collaboration. Our 14 Groundbreakers are leading the way in 2022 and beyond. For them and their companies, resilience—once the goal—is table stakes. They’re embracing the idea of transformation not only as a one-time event but as a permanent mode of operations and a business advantage. See how these leaders are forging new relationships between each other and, importantly, their customers to build a more efficient, cleaner supply chain of the future.

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01

Maia Benson

Forum Ventures Partner, Nifty Luxe President

Benson leverages vast entrepreneurial experience to help business leaders navigate digital transformation through advances in the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, artificial intelligence and more.

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02

Lesley Slaton Brown

Chief Diversity Officer, HP

Slaton Brown understands diverse voices fuel innovation, so she practices the art of listening to them in order to move fast and solve hard problems.

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03

Dave Clark

CEO, Flexport

At Flexport Clark uses technology to help every size company run the kind of sustainable, global supply chains that giant enterprises run.

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04

Adam Grosser

Chairman and Managing Partner, UP.Partners

Grosser funds companies that help people and products move faster and better, including a wearable lift-assist robot for warehouse workers.  

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05

Carl Haney

Executive Vice President, Research, Product and Innovation Officer, The Estée Lauder Companies

Under Haney and an all-female team, Estée Lauder's global innovation centers embrace the predictive power of big data to stay ahead of the competition.

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06

Ron Kyslinger

CEO and President, Kyslinger Consulting International

Kyslinger helps e-commerce startups, large retailers and private equity firms navigate the rapid evolution of automated systems.

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07

Juan Macias

CEO, AlphaStruxure

Macias is betting big on microgrids—tailored, self-contained systems—that offer all the benefits of energy transformation without the associated costs and risks.

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08

Kristi Montgomery

Vice President of Innovation, Research and Development, Kenco Innovation Labs

Montgomery is leading the digital transformation of logistics, using emerging technologies such as forklifts that can be controlled from thousands of miles away.

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09

Blain Newton

Chief Operations Officer, BETA Technologies

Newton's first challenge was delivering human organs fast and in an environmentally sustainable way. Now, BETA's zero-emissions aircraft could revolutionize e-commerce and personal travel.

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10

Samuel Reeves

Founder and CEO, FORT Robotics

Reeves first developed a robot that could detect and disarm land mines. Now FORT Robotics makes software and hardware to secure robots in warehousing, manufacturing, agriculture and more.

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11

Scott Ruffin

Founder and CEO, Pandion

Ruffin's Pandion uses machine learning to make faster, more precise decisions about a package’s journey in real time.

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12

Gianfranco Sgro

EVP of Contract Logistics, Kuehne+Nagel

Sgro's team at Kuehne+Nagel is building the largest carbon-neutral facility of its kind in Italy for Adidas.

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13

Akira Unno

Executive Officer, NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS, INC.

Unno's sustainability and digital transformation teams use internal and external data—such as weather and geopolitical trends—to eradicate waste like never before.

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14

Malcolm Wilson

CEO, GXO

Malcolm Wilson is on a quest to transform his industry with the latest robotics innovations, and GXO is reimagining warehouse technology to make work more enjoyable and safer for humans.

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