Webb leaves FFEX for Fenway Partners
Dallas-based Frozen Food Express Industries Inc. said Thursday that Bill Webb, senior vice president for marketing operations and stakeholder value, has resigned to join Fenway Partners Inc., a New York City-based private equity firm, as an operating partner.
FFEX said in a release that Webb's marketing and sales responsibilities will be assumed by John T. Hickerson, who joined FFEX in January as president of American Eagle Lines, its 500-truck non-refrigerated truck division, and as president of FFE Logistics Inc., the FFEX freight brokerage operation. Hickerson will also take on the additional title of senior vice president and chief marketing officer for FFEX's primary operating subsidiary, FFE Transportation Services Inc.
Hickerson formerly served as chairman and chief executive officer of Pacer Transport, a division of Pacer International Inc. He previously served as vice president of domestic intermodal service at Fort Worth, Texas-based Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway and president of Roadway Next Day Corp. in Akron, Ohio. Before joining Roadway, Hickerson spent 22 years in the San Mateo, Calif.-based CF-Con-Way family of companies, where he was founding president and CEO of Con-Way Southern Express.