RADIANT NAMES INDUSTRY VETERAN LAURENT GROUSSEAU AS ITS NEW CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
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Radiant Logistics (NYSE American: RLGT) has appointed Laurent Grousseau as its new Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO). With over 30 years of experience in the transportation and logistics industry, Grousseau will lead the company's information systems enhancement and support the migration of acquired companies to common applications, including the deployment of Navegate, Radiant's proprietary global trade management platform.
Grousseau, 56, previously served as CIO of Pilot Freight Services and held senior roles at CEVA Logistics and Kuehne + Nagel. He will report to Founder and CEO Bohn Crain, who praised Grousseau's technical, interpersonal, and managerial skills. Grousseau expressed interest in advancing the Navegate platform and exploring emerging technologies to scale Radiant's operations and deliver customer value.
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- Appointment of experienced industry veteran Laurent Grousseau as CTO
- Focus on enhancing information systems and migrating acquired companies to common applications
- Continued deployment of proprietary Navegate global trade management platform
- Potential for improved technology integration and scalability
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- None.
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Mr. Grousseau most recently served as Chief Information Officer of Pilot Freight Services, Inc, (acquired by Maersk in 2022), a
"Laurent has a broad range of technical, interpersonal, and managerial skills from working at various companies within our industry, where he has been instrumental in providing the technology vision, strategy, and leadership to run and scale tech-forward transportation and logistics organizations," said Crain. "We have found a leader who not only understands the complexities of delivering technology to support an acquisitive third-party logistics company such as ourselves, but also shares our commitment to customer success and product innovation as we continue to grow and deliver new tech-enabled solutions to help provide our customers competitive advantage."
"I have been impressed by Radiant's disciplined growth over the years and their commitment to technology as a competitive differentiator," said Grousseau. "I am particularly interested in working with the leadership team to advance the Navegate global trade management and collaboration platform across Radiant's broader forwarding network, as well as exploring how we can deploy emerging technologies that will accelerate our ability to scale and continuously deliver customer value." Mr. Grousseau holds a M.S. in Computer Science Engineering, Industrial Network and Development, ESAIP Engineer School,
Mr. Grousseau is stepping into the role of CTO in connection with the planned retirement of Mark Rowe, who has led Radiant's technology team since joining the company in 2013.
About Radiant Logistics (NYSE American: RLGT)
Radiant Logistics, Inc. (www.radiantdelivers.com) operates as a third-party logistics company, providing technology-enabled global transportation and value-added logistics services primarily to customers in
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