Confirmed Speakers To Date Include. . .

Leslie Blakey

Executive Director

Coalition for America's Gateways and Trade Corridors

Leslie Blakey is a principal with Blakey & Agnew, LLC, which is a public affairs and communications firm based in Washington, DC and specializing in transportation.

She serves as executive director of the Coalition for America’s Gateways and Trade Corridors, which is dedicated to the expansion and modernization of America’s freight and goods movement infrastructure. Its members include leading transportation associations, MPOs, commercial property owners, major ports, trade corridors, state and local government agencies, and individual rail, trucking, and engineering companies. The success of this initiative resulted in a five-fold increase in federal funding for goods movement infrastructure in the surface transportation reauthorization bill, SAFETEA-LU.

Tim Feemster

Sr. Vice President & Director of
Global Logistics - Grubb & Ellis

Over 35 years of experience have provided Tim Feemster with a variety of hands-on problem solving situations in logistics, distribution, and marketing.  Before joining Grubb & Ellis Company, Feemster was a senior manager in three manufacturing companies, a general manager, a consultant, and an executive in two third-party logistics providers.  His responsibilities have included warehouse layout and design, logistics systems development, warehouse network analysis, strategic planning, quality management and private fleet management in the US and internationally.

John P. Lanigan, Jr.

Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer

BNSF Railway Company

Richard C. Longworth

Author "Caught in the Middle:  America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism"

Senior Fellow - Chicago Council on Global Affairs

For 20 years, Longworth was a foreign correspondent for the Tribune and United Press International and was the Tribune’s Chief European Correspondent. He has reported from 75 countries on five continents.  His new book, Caught in the Middle, describes the impact of globalization on the Midwest. He has been an adjunct professor in international relations at Northwestern University and a regular lecturer at Columbia University and is a mentor at the Harris School at the University of Chicago.

Curtis D. Spencer

President / CEO
IMS Worldwide, Inc.

For more information, please contact Nicole Puracchio at (815) 774-6069