When it comes to women in the supply chain space, one thing is clear: they are increasingly driving industry innovation; leading companies, divisions, markets and sectors; executing on all fronts to ensure compliance; and creating pathways for the next generation.
They're making a difference in the supply chain, both personally and professionally.
And, this year's list of winners from the 2026 Women in Supply Chain Forum™ Award, presented by Food Logistics and Supply & Demand Chain Executive, are no exception.
They're the rule.
About the Women in Supply Chain Forum™ Award:
This award honors female supply chain professionals whose accomplishments, mentorship and examples set a foundation for women in all levels of a company’s supply chain network
Of the 300-plus submissions received, 70 of them were self-submissions, the highest number of self-nominated applications ever in the 6-year history of this award. And, 44 of the submissions received were from male counterparts, also the highest number of male-submitted applications to date.
Nearly 28% of the submissions came from nominees in the transportation space, followed by software and technology (21%), and warehousing (14%).
This year's award was broken down into four distinct categories:
--> Rising Stars -- Recognizes young or newer professionals (39 and under) whose achievements, hard work and vision have shaped the supply chain network.
--> Trailblazers -- Honors female leaders who continue to pave the way for future females in logistics. Must have at least 10 years’ documented experience in supply chain and logistics.
--> DEI Pioneer – Celebrates female leaders who continue to create and execute diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. DEI does not need to be in the nominee’s title to apply; but must be able to showcase clear examples of DEI efforts in the submission.
--> Workforce Innovator – Pays tribute to those female leaders whose efforts in supply chain education and workforce development help build a better workforce.
There is one overall winner in each category, in addition to the remainder of the award recipients. The four overall winners will take the stage at this year's Women in Supply Chain Forum™ to share their experiences, their journeys, their visions and advice for the future. CLICK HERE to learn more about this year’s Women in Supply Chain Forum™, Nov. 17-19 in Charleston, S.C.
CLICK HERE for a full list of all of this year's winners.
Let's meet the overall winners:
RISING STARS --> Marina Ivanov, Co-Founder & CEO, Apex Transit Solutions
As CEO of Apex Transit Solutions, Marina Ivanov remains deeply involved in the day-to-day operations of the business while also leading the company’s long-term strategy, growth, and culture initiatives. Unlike many executives in transportation, Ivanov operates with a hands-on leadership style and stays directly connected to customers, drivers, dispatch operations, recruiting, safety, and financial oversight. Her daily responsibilities include overseeing fleet operations, customer relationships, strategic account growth, recruiting and driver retention initiatives, operational planning, and process improvement. She works closely with dispatch and operations teams to ensure freight is moving efficiently while maintaining strong service levels for customers and realistic expectations for drivers. Ivanov is also heavily involved in business development and relationship management, regularly communicating with shippers, brokers, insurance partners, financial institutions, and technology providers. She has played a major role in modernizing the company’s operational infrastructure, including implementation of new systems and operational workflows designed to improve visibility, efficiency, and scalability. She actively participates in recruiting initiatives, mentoring, leadership development, and industry events that promote opportunities for women in transportation and supply chain leadership. One of her most impactful advocacy efforts involved helping support North Carolina House Bill 472, legislation designed to ban predatory booting of commercial vehicles and ensure timely cargo release. After Apex Transit Solutions and several other carriers experienced costly and disruptive towing and booting practices, Ivanov used her platform to speak publicly about how these practices negatively impacted drivers, carriers, and the supply chain. Through collaboration with the North Carolina Trucking Association and legislative stakeholders, the bill ultimately passed the North Carolina House unanimously. CLICK HERE to read an exclusive interview with Ivanov on protecting carriers, supporting drivers and building people-first culture.
TRAILBLAZERS --> Hannah Kain, President & CEO, ALOM
It was 1997 when Hannah Kain pitched 23 banks with her business plan for a small business loan to start ALOM. It's this perseverance and resilience that to this day, dubs Kain as an engaged and inspiring business leader. Fast forward to today, and ALOM operates out of 20 global locations, and can fulfill orders to 85% of U.S. zip codes in 48 hours or less by ground delivery. Kain's business management and supply chain career began in her childhood growing up in Denmark. She took a more than casual interest in her father’s business, where he would explain processes and methods of business operation. After college, Kain held various management and executive positions in Europe, with a wide range of experience in the packaging industry dating back to 1990. After emigrating to the United States, she became frustrated by the one-size-fits-all manufacturing mentality prevalent at that time. That's why she developed what is dubbed as the first B2B e-commerce order management portal. Within 2 years of opening ALOM, Kain made her vision a reality: orders received by noon could ship out same day and be delivered to the end user within 48 hours. Also under Kain's leadership, ALOM holds ISO 9001, ISO 13485, ISO 14001, SOC 2 Type 2, EcoVadis Silver, NABP certifications and all ALOM facilities are FDA registered. In 2017, she implemented a supplier nearsourcing initiative to mitigate global trade uncertainty, lower carbon footprint, and ensure on-time, full order delivery of materials. ALOM also maintains a 10-plus-year average diverse supplier spend of over 21%. CLICK HERE to read an exclusive interview on why discuss why perseverance, determination, and doing the right thing are key ingredients to success.
DEI PIONEER --> Sheri Hinish, Founder, Supply Chain Queen, Supply Chain Revolution Global
Sheri Hinish is the founder and CEO of Supply Chain Revolution Global LLC, which operates under the Supply Chain Queen brand, where she advises Fortune 500 companies and governments on supply chain transformation, AI-enabled operations, circular economy strategy, and just-transition planning. She leads strategic advisory engagements that help global organizations embed sustainability and equity into their operating models. And, she hosts and produces The Supply Chain Revolution podcast, which elevates underrepresented voices, including women, leaders from the Global South, and innovators working outside traditional power structures. In 2026, Hinish launched Women of the Revolution, which honored 65 women across six continents and three tiers. Hinish also created and manages the SCQ Fellowship, a hands-on professional development program for early-career women entering supply chain, media, and sustainability. The program intentionally recruits women who might not otherwise have access to senior-level mentorship or the professional networks that accelerate careers. Previously, she spent nearly two decades in the most demanding operating environments in global professional services, rising to senior partner and VP at IBM, where she served as global leader for sustainability services and led teams of more than 3,000 professionals. She then joined EY as a senior partner, where she helped lead the Open AI and Data Science Challenge, which democratized access to emerging technology skills across a wide talent base, and served on COP Executive Committees from COP26 through COP30, bringing equity and climate-finance perspectives into the highest-level global sustainability governance conversations. CLICK HERE to read an exclusive interview with Hinish to discuss the importance of mentorship, sustainability and embracing emerging technologies.
WORKFORCE INNOVATOR --> Abbi Failla, Chief Administrative Officer & Chief of Staff to the CEO, EASE Logistics
Abbi Failla serves as chief administrative officer and chief of staff to the CEO at EASE Logistics, supporting day-to-day priorities, leading key projects, and ensuring the leadership team stays aligned and on track. On any given day, that can mean managing employee relations, overseeing policy implementation and benefits administration, tracking commissions, handling financial reporting and budget planning, or managing the build-out of EASE’s new headquarters. She also owns the company’s 2026 strategy and goal planning process, working directly with leadership to set direction and keep execution on course. Failla joined EASE Logistics in April 2021, where she founded the company's first Strategy and Innovation Department, establishing programs, systems and structure. She also championed the integration of AMMI, EASE's proprietary platform that executes more than 40,000 AI-driven tasks per week, to ensure the workers running those workflows were prepared and comfortable. Over the next four years, she steadily expanded her scope, from director of strategy and innovation to VP of business operations, then EVP, and most recently, her current role. Failla also serves as a founding board member and chairs the Workforce and Education Committee of the Ohio Supply Chain Academic Network (O-SCAN), designed to grow and diversify Ohio's supply chain talent pipeline through cross-sector collaboration between employers, educators, and workforce leaders. She spent the first two decades of her career in human performance and business transformation across government, finance, insurance, healthcare, and automotive sectors, initially serving as event director for the State of Ohio Office of the Governor, and then at organizations such as Huntington National Bank, One10 Marketing, and Nationwide Insurance. CLICK HERE to read an exclusive interview on detail why championing human connection is important when training employees to embrace robotics.
CLICK HERE for a full list of all of this year's winners.
Below are a couple of additional standouts (in alpha order by company name).
Natalia Golenkova, Marketing Director, Jay Group
Category: Trailblazers
As marketing director at Jay Group, Natalia Golenkova leads all digital and traditional marketing functions with a strong focus on lead generation, marketing technology infrastructure, and data-driven decision-making. Her day-to-day operates across three layers simultaneously: strategic (where she develops and presents marketing strategy to senior leadership, aligns marketing goals with sales and business development targets, evaluates market trends and competitive positioning, and makes budget allocation decisions based on real-time attribution data across all channels); tactical (where she manages the full marketing technology stack, including CRM automation, AI-powered visitor de-anonymization, automated outreach, meeting intelligence, and analytics platforms); and operational (where she debugs tracking pixels, reviews CRM workflows for misrouted leads, checks website page speed after new deploys, verifies ADA compliance, monitors backlink quality and spam scores, and builds landing pages with proper UTM parameters and attribution tagging). A former practicing civil lawyer (Russian equivalent of a Juris Doctor, Summa Cum Laude), she evaluates every marketing initiative through a legal and regulatory lens: GDPR and privacy regulation, ADA website accessibility and copyright/IP protection. She manages a hybrid team model combining in-house talent, remote specialists, fractional consultants, and international third-party partners across the United States and Europe. Golenkova arrived to the United States in 2015 with no American network, no U.S. credentials, and no safety net. Rather than spend years requalifying as a lawyer in the United States, she pivoted into digital marketing and management. Previous to her current role, she worked at DCS as an SEO/PPC specialist, and later was promoted to marketing specialist, then account manager and eventually to senior account manager, managing the digital presence of 30-plus clients with strong focus on logistics and supply chain companies. There, she increased website traffic by 65% through SEO and content strategies, boosted ROI by 30% with high-performing campaigns, and drove revenue growth by onboarding major clients. She was also recruited as senior marketing manager at Bergen Logistics, a subsidiary of Elanders Group, where she increased digital marketing's revenue share from 34% to 46% despite economic headwinds; brought PPC campaign management in-house (saving 15% on budget while improving agility); grew Domain Authority from 26 to 31; and ensured compliance with GDPR, Privacy, and ADA standards across all digital properties.
Brenda Knepper
VP, Human Resources, Kase (a WSI company)
Category: Workforce Innovator
Brenda Knepper is VP, human resources at WSI, where she leads the charge in the goal to be the "employer of choice," creating a psychologically safe environment for the 800-plus employees she manages. Knepper operates on the belief that how a company treats its employees is inseparable from how well it performs. Knepper joined the senior leadership team in 2019, where she improved the employee retention process to give an employee who is being terminated an avenue to contest the turnover. The result has produced fewer submissions in the employee retention process as employees understand the reason for termination. Knepper also led the rollout of a new training platform; supported the training team in adopting Open Sesame, which improved access to regularly updated, professionally developed content without adding significant cost and administrative burden to operations leaders; and is currently leading the implementation of an HR data warehouse that connects to WSI’s human resource information system and puts workforce data in the hands of leaders on-demand, with role-based access controls to protect sensitive information. Knepper is WSI's first female in a VP position, and is an advocate for responsible and fair labor practices and for creating paths for advancement for all employees hungry for growth.
Nyssa Gardebrecht, Senior Business Analyst, Kase (a WSI company)
Category: Rising Stars
Nyssa Gardebrecht serves as senior business analyst, where she analyzes complex challenges, identifies broader opportunities, and designs scalable solutions. Each day, Gardebrecht collaborates with customers, operations leaders, compliance teams, developers, and technology partners to translate business needs into practical solutions. Rather than just addressing the problems presented, she considers their place within WSI’s ecosystem and seeks reusable frameworks, standardized processes, and scalable capabilities for broader organizational benefit. Much of her work focuses on maximizing the ProActive features of Manhattan Active WM, where she promotes configurable tools, extensible frameworks, and scalable patterns to foster self-sufficiency for WSI and its customers. Her first corporate role was at Pitney Bowes, where she developed a customer-facing support team, demonstrated technical aptitude and troubleshooting skills, and quickly moved into internal technical support, where she assisted field service technicians who maintained and repaired mailing equipment nationwide. She later joined an exclusive support team for one of the company's first technology-forward mailing systems. In 2011, Gardebrecht joined WSI as a help desk analyst, where she supported business operations across the organization, deployed software, managed user access, troubleshot hardware, and provided operational support. After briefly leaving WSI, she implemented anti-fraud software in financial services, improving her expertise in deployment, adoption, customer training, and process improvement. Nearly 18 months later, she returned to WSI's help desk, where she oversaw daily support operations, initiated training programs, launched monthly knowledge-sharing communications, and pioneered measures to reduce recurring support issues. Additionally, she was instrumental in deploying a new ticketing platform and managing critical business systems. In February 2020, she joined WSI's Manhattan implementation team during one of the company's most significant technology transformations. Then, in 2023, she was promoted to her current role, where she leads strategic solution design, architecting systems, and optimizing processes. Her journey from dairy farm worker to senior supply chain technology leader demonstrates personal perseverance and reflects a deep commitment to innovation, improvement, and elevating those around her.
Cecelia Pasos, Warehouse Manager, Kase (a WSI company)
Category: Trailblazers
Cecelia Pasos is a warehouse operations leader at WSI/Kase, responsible for driving performance across fulfillment operations while developing the people and processes that sustain it. Day to day, she oversees warehouse and fulfillment execution, managing teams, monitoring operational KPIs, and ensuring order accuracy and on-time shipping performance meet or exceed customer expectations. She is known for building accountability into operations through practical tools: visual KPI boards, productivity tracking, and performance management systems that give both associates and managers clear visibility into how the operation is performing and what's expected of them. She partners closely with customers to identify workflow improvements, and has a track record of stepping into underperforming operations and restoring both profitability and client confidence. She began her supply chain journey more than 30 years ago as a temporary data entry clerk supporting logistics operations for a major retailer. Quickly embracing the complexity and pace of the industry, she was hired full-time as a supervisor within her first year. Over the course of her career, Pasos has gained extensive experience across retail distribution, manufacturing, event logistics, and third-party logistics operations. While working with major retailers such as Ross Stores, she managed teams of more than 75 associates supporting a newly implemented put-to-light fulfillment system, where under her leadership, the operation consistently maintained a 95% effectiveness rate while regularly achieving weekly performance bonus targets. She later joined DSV as a supervisor, where she became known for her ability to drive operational performance through visual management, employee engagement, and accountability. She was later promoted into a director-level role, where she oversaw three facilities, including the startup of a new operation in Texas. Upon returning to California, she assumed responsibility for the H&M account at Whiplash, where she partnered with leadership teams to redesign workflows that improved productivity, operational performance, and inventory accuracy. Her expertise in operational turnarounds also led her to assist struggling facilities, helping implement SOPs, retrain teams, and restore profitability while retaining critical customer relationships. Today, she continues to build on that legacy through her leadership at WSI/Kase, where she's reduced staffing requirements by approximately 40% while improving the facility's handling margin from -8.% to 40%. She also played a key role in the startup and management of the VEKP account, where she enabled the operation to consistently maintain 99% inventory and order accuracy while achieving 95% on-time shipping performance. She also led the Fontana operation through the loss of a major customer while still increasing annual revenue by more than $100,000. And, she transformed the culture of the operation and built an environment where team members are encouraged to challenge the status quo, contribute ideas, and take ownership of results.
Shannon Curtis, Director of Product Marketing, The Raymond Corporation, a brand of Toyota Material Handling North America
Category: Trailblazers
Shannon Curtis is the director of product marketing for The Raymond Corporation, a brand of Toyota Material Handling North America, where she bridges product planning and marketing to ensure the full commercialization of products and solutions. Her role is part of a newer function built into Raymond’s business structure to provide greater support and alignment with customers evolving needs through product and solution innovation. She works holistically across departments and teams to ensure that products and solutions are designed and developed to fit customer needs. Curtis started her journey with The Raymond Corporation in 2014 as a product manager for hand pallet trucks, then moved into the product marketing manager role for Class III and Class II trucks. She's played a pivotal role in product development and product commercialization for Raymond’s iWAREHOUSE Integrated Tether and the Raymond High Capacity Orderpicker, and helped introduce iWAREHOUSE ObjectSense & Notification System (iW.ObjectSense) and the Raymond 4260 Stand-up Counterbalanced Truck, underscoring Curtis' ability to help bring to market products and solutions that meet customers' needs. In 2024, Curtis was named a Rock Star of the Supply Chain by Food Logistics and is a past recipient of the 2024 Women in Supply Chain™ Forum award. Looking ahead, Curtis plans to continue bringing innovative products and solutions to market, and fostering collaboration across teams to ensure customer insights remain at the center of every step of product development.
Casey Hyde, VP, Marketing, Reveel
Category: Trailblazers
Casey Hyde serves as VP, marketing, where she leads global marketing strategy, demand generation, and brand positioning for a leading supply chain intelligence platform focused on parcel spend management. In this role, she is responsible for shaping how enterprise organizations understand and approach small parcel shipping. On a day-to-day basis, she oversees the development and execution of integrated marketing programs that educate the market, generate demand, and support revenue growth. She works cross-functionally with product, sales, and data teams to align go-to-market strategies with real-world customer challenges, ensuring that messaging and positioning reflect both operational realities and strategic priorities. A core part of her role involves translating complex logistics data into clear, actionable insights for supply chain leaders. She leads the creation of thought leadership content, benchmarking analyses, and industry narratives that help organizations better understand carrier pricing, identify inefficiencies, and make more informed decisions. Hyde also plays a key leadership role in building and mentoring high-performing teams, fostering collaboration across departments, and ensuring that customer feedback directly informs product innovation and business strategy. Hyde’s career spans more than 15 years, when she began her career in operational and management roles. She then transitioned into the supply chain technology space, where she built and led business development teams focused on driving growth and expanding market presence. Her move into marketing leadership was a natural evolution of her ability to connect business strategy with customer needs. One of her most significant contributions has been transforming the role of marketing within supply chain technology. Rather than functioning as a traditional support role, Hyde has elevated marketing into a strategic driver of education, innovation, and measurable business impact. Her work has helped shine a light on small parcel shipping as a critical, yet often overlooked, component of supply chain strategy. And, through mentorship, advocacy, and leadership by example, she's helped create pathways for other women to enter and grow within the industry. Over the next 12 months, Hyde is focused on further advancing how organizations leverage data and intelligence to transform their supply chain strategies.
Gabrielle Murabito, Senior Account Manager, Reveel
Category: Rising Stars
Gabrielle Murabito is a senior account manager who serves as a strategic advisor to enterprise shippers, helping them optimize parcel spend and improve supply chain performance through data-driven decision-making. In her role, she acts as the primary point of contact for customers, guiding them from onboarding through long-term optimization and value realization. On a day-to-day basis, she partners closely with logistics, finance, and operations teams to analyze shipping data, identify cost-saving opportunities, and develop actionable optimization strategies. She leads business reviews, presents insights on carrier performance and spend trends, and collaborates with internal analytics and product teams to deliver tailored recommendations. She also ensures that identified opportunities are implemented effectively, working alongside customers to translate complex data into practical actions. Prior to her current role, Murabito served as a supply chain manager at a major retail organization, where she was responsible for network strategy, logistics optimization, and large-scale operational initiatives across multiple brands. In that role, she managed the complexities of parcel shipping firsthand—navigating carrier contracts, balancing cost and service tradeoffs, and driving improvements across fulfillment and distribution operations. She led initiatives to enhance network efficiency, reduce costs, and improve delivery performance, gaining a deep understanding of the real-world challenges faced by high-volume shippers. This experience became the foundation for her transition into a strategic advisory role. One of her most significant contributions is her work helping enterprise shippers uncover hidden inefficiencies in parcel shipping. By analyzing carrier contracts, invoicing data, and operational workflows, Murabito identifies cost drivers that are frequently overlooked and develops strategies that deliver meaningful savings and performance improvements. Over the next 12 months, Murabito aims to deepen how organizations leverage data to drive end-to-end supply chain optimization.
Nicole Lee, Senior Director, Client Success, Saddle Creek Logistics Services
Category: Trailblazers
As senior director of client success for Saddle Creek Logistics Services, Nicole Lee is tasked with aligning Saddle Creek’s operations, technology, and account management strategies and translating clients' needs into operational, analytical and technology improvements to enhance the client experience. On a day-to-day basis, she leads strategy for key clients, working with account teams to understand each client’s business priorities, determine how Saddle Creek can contribute to those objectives, and keep account strategy organized around the next best opportunity to create value. A key part of her role involves managing and evolving Saddle Creek’s Voice of Client (VOC) program and client journey work, ensuring client feedback is captured and operationalized across the organization to inform decision-making and continuous improvement efforts. She also plays a critical role in enterprise technology and analytics initiatives, including contributing to the strategy and adoption of SCSnap Analytics, a strategic effort to standardize reporting, improve visibility, and enable better decision-making across the organization and clients. Additionally, she serves as a product owner for key platforms, where she helps prioritize system enhancements, translate business needs into technical requirements, and ensure alignment between operational priorities and long-term scalability. Lee joined Saddle Creek in 2010 as a management trainee, and over the past 16 years, has earned seven different promotions of increasing operational scope, leadership responsibility and strategic influence. A defining chapter was her leadership on a fast-growing subscription fulfillment account that required rapid system and process stabilization. Lee worked closely with systems teams to implement and improve warehouse technology, resolve operational pain points and support expansion across multiple locations, resulting in monthly fulfillment volume increasing from roughly 200,000 to approximately 3.5 million.
Whitney Ennis, VP, Marketing and Communications, Trailer Bridge, Inc.
Category: Trailblazers
As VP of marketing and communications for Trailer Bridge, Whitney Ennis leads the company's marketing, communications, brand, and public relations strategy. She is responsible for developing and executing integrated marketing initiatives that support the organization's overall business objectives, strengthen customer relationships, enhance brand visibility, and contribute to revenue growth across Trailer Bridge's portfolio of transportation and logistics services. On a day-to-day basis, she oversees a multifaceted marketing and communications strategy and serves as a brand ambassador for the organization, managing public relations efforts, media engagement, thought leadership initiatives, and corporate communications. Ennis also leads the company's content strategy, guiding the development of marketing campaigns, digital content, executive communications, customer-facing materials, and thought leadership programs that educate, inform, and engage key stakeholders. She also plays a key role in fostering employee engagement and organizational culture, champions internal communications, training, and development initiatives and serves as a strategic advisor on brand positioning, corporate messaging, organizational communications, and business growth opportunities. Throughout her career, Ennis has held leadership roles in both the public and private sectors, gaining experience in marketing, communications, public relations, stakeholder engagement, business development, and strategic planning. Ennis also exhibits crisis leadership, which was on display during the Brooklyn Bridge barge incident in the Bahamas, where she quickly assembled a team of internal and external partners, including a trusted crisis communications firm, to help guide the company's response. Throughout the incident, Ennis was responsible for developing and overseeing all communication efforts, including executive messaging, customer communications, employee updates, media relations, and stakeholder engagement. In addition to her crisis leadership, she serves as president of the Propeller Club of the United States, Port of Jacksonville, where she's worked alongside maritime, logistics, transportation, and trade leaders throughout Northeast Florida to help champion Northeast Florida's transportation and maritime community; and serves on the Education Committee of the Transportation Marketing & Sales Association (TMSA), where she helps develop educational programming, shares industry best practices, and supports professional development opportunities for transportation marketers and business leaders.
Kacy Swanson, VP, Employee Services, Trailer Bridge, Inc.
Category: Workforce Innovator
As VP of employee services at Trailer Bridge, Kacy Swanson is responsible for leading the company's people strategy and ensuring workforce initiatives support both employee success and business objectives. She oversees all aspects of human resources, including talent acquisition, employee relations, leadership development, performance management, workforce planning, compensation and benefits, compliance, organizational development, and employee engagement. On a day-to-day basis, Swanson serves as a strategic advisor to executive leadership, partnering closely with company leaders to address workforce challenges, organizational effectiveness, succession planning, talent retention, and change management initiatives. She also provides guidance on complex employee relations matters, supports leadership decision-making, and leads initiatives designed to strengthen the employee experience. Her work includes improving recruiting processes, developing leadership and manager training programs, supporting workforce planning efforts across multiple business units, evaluating emerging workplace technologies such as artificial intelligence, and creating resources that help leaders effectively manage and develop their teams. Swanson joined Trailer Bridge in 2022 as director of employee services, bringing more than a decade of HR and recruiting experience, and was later promoted to her current role in 2023. Previously, she served as talent acquisition partner with Astadia; HR generalist and recruiting manager at MoneySolver, and later as human resources director at Member Benefits, Inc., where she gained experience leading employee relations, performance management, talent development, compensation and benefits, workforce engagement, and organizational effectiveness initiatives.
IN MEMORIUM:
Dina Donnelly, Director, International Logistics, Actylis
Category: Trailblazers
For 45 years, Dina Donnelly ran the international logistics team at Actylis, responsible for managing all inbound logistics, exports, foreign to foreign and tariff management. She began her career right out of high school in an age when women were not in supply chain, let alone logistics. She grew from a basic outbound logistics person (managing shipments out of domestic warehouses) into imports management then warehouse and export management and eventually ran the entire team. A true MacGyver and problem solver, she created over 13 additional female managers, directors and vice presidents. On March 26, Donnelly passed away at her home surrounded by family.
*Please note, all winners underwent a vetting process, which included a review of confidential information submitted in the application process. This list is compiled of female supply chain professionals who actively submitted a digital application for this award. Not all applicants were named winners.
CLICK HERE for a full list of all of this year's winners.
CLICK HERE to register, sponsor and/or learn more about this year’s Women in Supply Chain Forum™, Nov. 17-19 in Charleston, S.C.
