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John G. Callan - Connecticut. Based on early entrepreneurial successes, John has applied his intuitive inclination toward the creation and execution of innovative growth strategies to corporations and clients for more than thirty years. As senior operating executive and consultant for small and large companies alike, John has led innovative strategic business development initiatives in the mail and parcel logistics and digital imaging fields. He founded and grew pioneer global courier service, Calico Air Courier, merged it into DHL Worldwide Express and served DHL as VP Marketing. He served TNT Skypak as President and Purolator Courier as SVP Marketing and Sales. He served Polaroid Corporation as Director of New Business Development. He led start-ups in the fields of international re-mail and desktop shipping and served PricewaterhouseCoopers' postal practice as "thought-leader" on strategy projects for USPS. John co-founded logistics consultancy Ursa Major Associates and advised ventures in online shipping, postage payment, hybrid mail, postal software, USPS work-sharing, parcel consolidation and delivery. His private sector clients have included industry leaders, Pitney Bowes, FedEx and Triangle Management and he most recently served DHL Global Mail - Americas as VP Strategy and Business Development and member of the Executive Committee, responsible for non-organic growth initiatives, M & A and postal relations. John is a recognized postal industry expert, has served on industry boards and also sits on the Board of Directors of biometric industry leader, Imageware Systems. He earned a BA in Russian at the University of North Carolina where he was a Morehead Scholar and he has completed executive programs in World Trade, Marketing, Finance, Strategy and Transformation at College of NSW and Victoria, (Aus), UCLA, Wharton and MIT.

Jonathan T. Pavloff - Cleveland. Jon’s successful logistics career spans Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurial ventures and consulting. His experience at Roadway Express and Roadway Services included 16 years as a corporate officer. As President of Roadway Services’ Information Technology operating unit, Summit Information Systems, he created an organization recognized for providing the best set of information technology support services in the motor carrier industry. As VP of Corporate Planning, Jon managed business planning and development activity, culminating in the spin-off of Roadway Express from Roadway Services and the creation of Caliber System. Jon has advised a number of clients in many industries on strategic planning and information technology issues and served as VP for an information services consulting company recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S.

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