Laurent Foloppe, Martin Stoekenbroek and Matthew Harding have new roles.
Laurent Foloppe has been appointed as the commercial and marketing director for HAROPA.
Foloppe will lead the marketing, liner shipping, international development, container and ro-ro trades department. He also will have responsibility for the interim management of the transport networks division.
HAROPA, the fifth-largest port complex in northern Europe, is a joint venture among the ports of Le Havre, Rouen and Paris.
During his tenure with the Bolloré Group, Foloppe served as director of supply chain for the European business and managed subsidiaries in the Indian Ocean at Reunion and Mayotte islands. He later managed the Bolloré Logistics agency in Le Havre and then the Normandy region for Bolloré Logistics. He most recently was the director of the implementation and solutions department for Europe.
Kerry Logistics Network Limited has named Martin Stoekenbroek (pictured above) as its managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Stoekenbroek will lead Kerry Logistics’ international freight forwarding business in the EMEA region and be in charge of its strategic development, focusing particularly on strengthening the company’s foothold and business portfolio.
Stoekenbroek has more than 30 years of industry experience. He was the senior vice president of global air freight for Geodis prior to joining Kerry Logistics. He previously worked for Wilson Logistics and TNT Freight Management.
Mathieu Biron, managing director of global freight forwarding for Kerry Logistics, said Stoekenbroek “will be a vital part of our ongoing global expansion, providing visionary guidance as we realize our long-term strategy.”
Transplace has hired Matthew Harding as senior vice president of data science.
Transplace said Harding will lead its data insights and analytics team “to derive useful and actionable insights out of internal network data as well as support partnership and collaboration with companies with deep artificial intelligence and machine learning expertise.”
Harding, who has more than 20 years of supply chain and transportation industry experience, joins Transplace from Chainalytics, for which he served as vice president of freight market intelligence consortiums and developed transportation market intelligence products for shippers and 3PLs.
Prior to Chainalytics, he served as vice president of consulting at Transplace. Harding also held leadership positions with Manhattan Associations, Logistics.com Inc. and The Sabre Group.
“Transplace continues to invest in our use of data science to enable our customers to make more strategic decisions driven by analytics,” said CTO Jim French. “Bringing Matthew on board supports that commitment, allowing us to further extract meaningful insights from the 20 million shipments and $8 billion worth of freight going through Transplace’s system — all with the goal to help our customers increase efficiency, reduce costs and improve service.”
