Drew McElroy – CEO – Transfix

Transfix’s new chief revenue officer wants to change digital brokerage’s business model – FreightWaves – John Paul Hampstead, Associate Editor

By / September 13, 2020

Transfix, the venture capital-backed digital freight marketplace based in New York City, announced that Ahmad El-Dardiry joined the company as its new chief revenue officer. El-Dardiry comes to Transfix from a 19-year stint at Intel Corporation, where most recently he managed cloud computing, memory and storage enterprise sales in the Americas, Asia and global industry …

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“Flywheel is turning faster and faster”: Transfix’s Drew McElroy at TIA – FreightWaves – John Paul Hampstead, Associate Editor

By / September 13, 2020

( Photo: Shutterstock ) FreightWaves is covering the Transportation Intermediaries Association’s 2019 Capital Ideas conference in Orlando, Florida. On the afternoon of April 11, Drew McElroy, chief executive officer of New York City-based digital freight brokerage Transfix, sat down for an interview. Transfix’s business is going well. McElroy said the company is posting positive gross …

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How Consolidation and Freight Networks Are Disrupting the Logistics Landscape – Transport Topics

By / September 13, 2020

Employees at C.H. Robinson. (Photo courtesy of Steven A. Smith) When financier Brad Jacobs launched his bid to consolidate the logistics industry in 2011, he set into motion a process that continues to reshape the industry today. But now there are other business strategies in play with the potential to disrupt the business and spur …

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18-Wheelers At App Speed: An $800M Startup Is Trying To Pull An Uber On The Trucking Business – Forbes – Amy Feldman Forbes Staff

By / October 7, 2020

At 12, Drew McElroy was in trucking. His parents ran a freight brokerage operation out of a spare bedroom in Milltown, New Jersey—connecting truck owners to companies that needed to move goods—and he helped out by working the phones. Fifteen years later, a light bulb went off. Weren’t truck brokers doing the same thing that …

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App-Enabled Freight Platforms Help Small Carriers Find Loads, Boost Efficiency – Transport Topics – Mindy Long

By / September 13, 2020

The Uber Freight app provides drivers with upfront load pricing and quick payment, the company says. (Uber Freight) Large fleets typically have been the first to benefit from the spread of technology in trucking, but digital freight brokers are working to extend some of the same advantages to smaller carriers and independent drivers. Companies such …

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Blockchain will work in trucking – but only if these three things happen – Tech Crunch – Jonathan Salama _ TRANSFIX

By / September 13, 2020

Sometimes a buzzword gets so overhyped that it deserves some light-hearted mockery. That seems to be the case with “blockchain.” While it’s true that not every industry can benefit from a distributed-ledger technology, the trucking industry most certainly can. In fact, a new consortium called the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) is working to apply blockchain to …

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