IRTA elects 2017-2018 officers, directors
New officers and directors of the International Refrigerated Transportation Association (IRTA) were announced during a board of directors meeting, which took place at the Global Cold Chain Expo in Chicago.
Robert Fay (president, Florida Freezer, Fort Myers, Florida) was elected as the 2017-2018 chairman of IRTA. Debbie McDowell (director of business development and customer service, Seaonus, Jacksonville, Florida) was elected as vice chairman and Todd Lanter (director of transportation, Henningsen Transportation Services, Scranton, Pennsylvania) was elected treasurer.
New board members elected to three-year terms include: Scott McIntosh (senior vice president and general manager, VersaCold – North America Transportation Solutions, Surrey, British Columbia), Richard Patenaude (director of logistics, Congebec Logistics, Mississauga, Ontario), Ned Runser (operations manager, Hall’s Warehouse Corp., South Plainfield, New Jersey), Brian Webb (senior vice president, business development, JB Hunt, Lowell, Arizona), and Brandon Woods (vice president, Refrigerated Transport, Fort Worth, Texas).
Greg Bryan (senior vice president, transportation, Lineage Logistics, Irvine, California), Barbara Pratt (director, Maersk Line, Florham Park, New Jersey), Chris Mnichowski (president, CTI Freight Systems, Bucyrus, Kansas), Keith Mowery (vice president, transportation & logistics, United States Cold Storage, Voorhees, New Jersey), and Eric Olafson (associate director for global trade, Port Miami, Miami, Florida) were reelected to three-year terms.
Established in 1994, IRTA is an international, nonprofit organization serving the refrigerated transportation industry. The association is a Core Partner of the Global Cold Chain Alliance, which represents all major industries engaged in temperature-controlled logistics.
