Roadrunner Names William Goodgion President of Transportation Management Solutions

Roadrunner Transportation Systems, (NYSE: RRTS) has announced the hiring of William Goodgion as president of the company’s Transportation Management Solutions (TMS) segment.

Goodgion will be responsible for overseeing the entire TMS segment, which is comprised of leading Roadrunner companies including Group Transportation Services, Marisol International, and Unitrans International.

A seasoned transportation industry executive with over 25 years of experience in operations management and strategic development in global freight forwarding, Goodgion joins Roadrunner from FedEx Trade Networks Transport & Brokerage, Inc., where he was most recently Managing Director of Operations for the Central Region.

In this role, his responsibilities included overseeing financial performance and operational execution of all import/export air and ocean freight forwarding, gateway services, customs brokerage, distribution, and surface transportation. Goodgion joined FedEx Trade Networks in February 2000 through the acquisition of Tower Group International. He joined Tower Group in 1992.

Goodgion’s career at FedEx in global freight forwarding also includes serving as Managing Director of Global Distribution Services, as well as local operating and regional management positions related to international and domestic air, ocean, and distribution services.

Goodgion is a former board member of the National Industrial Transportation League and has been an active member of the Transportation Intermediaries Association, the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals and the Warehousing Education Research Council. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business, with a concentration in supply chain and operations management.

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