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The MercuryGate executive team

MercuryGate’s executive team has extensive expertise in transportation management and is dedicated to empowering customers with the efficient automation needed to excel in today’s marketplace. With deep experience in virtually every aspect of freight transportation, they are helping to lead the industry towards more relevant, streamlined, and powerful automation answers.

Founders Circle

Joe Juliano​
President / CEO
Steve Blough​
Chief Innovation Officer / CIO / Co-Founder
Pete Celestina

Co-Founder TSI

Don Mabry

Co-Founder ClearTrack

Jeffrey Varon​
Chief Strategy Officer / CSO

Executive Leadership

Micky Abhold

EVP, Professional Services

Traci Bakke

Chief People Officer / CPO

Simon Fahie​
Managing Director, EMEA

As Managing Director of Operations for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, Simon is responsible for launching sales, support and service operations for current and future MercuryGate customers.

Simon is a 20-year veteran in the international supply chain and technology industry, starting, building and operating teams in EMEA, Asia pacific and North America. With a deep understanding of the requirements in products, services and markets, he has a proven track record for growing successful teams and international sales and service operations.

Prior to MercuryGate, Simon restructured and grew IQNavigator’s European-based operations. Before that he built and launched commercial teams for RedPrairie EMEA, EMEA TMS and ByBox North America. He holds a Master of Science degree in Logistics and Supply Chain Management from Cranfield University.

Ken Germain

VP, Global Sales

As CTO at MercuryGate, Beth is responsible for MercuryGate’s technology infrastructure and driving the product roadmap with a focus on efficiency and throughput.

Hendriks joined MercuryGate after a successful career at Oracle as a cloud strategist and business architect. Before that, she was SVP and Chief Technology Officer at SciQuest/JAGGAER where was given the Supply and Demand Chain Executives’ Pro to Know award.

In addition, she collaborated in driving a product strategy at NetApp which resulted in movement in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant from visionary to leader’s quadrant over a 3-year period.

Beth has a BS of Computer Science and Mathematics from McNeese State University and an MBA with a concentration on Project Management from Jones International University.
Beth Hendriks

Chief Technology Officer / CTO

Chad Hicks

Chief Information Security Officer

Mark Huebeler​

Chief Financial Officer / CFO

Brittney Keller
VP, Global Marketing
Dan Willmer is MercuryGate’s Chief Procurement Officer (CPO). He has more than 20 years of experience in the supply chain field. In 2020, Dan was promoted to CPO and will oversee and direct global sourcing, establish and manage a contract repository and deploy repeatable processes, systems, and practices that employees across the enterprise will support to create a well-managed procurement operation. Dan is also responsible for growing and scaling the professional services function and enhancing customer focus and efficiency within MercuryGate. Prior to joining MercuryGate, Dan was at JAGGAER, a Spend Management SaaS platform that manages end to end procurement activities as the SVP of Global Customer Operations. Prior to JAGGAER, Willmer worked at Accenture as a Managing Director of Procurement Services and Ariba as Vice President of On-Demand & Supplier Network Services. Additionally, he has extensive experience with growing and scaling large globally dispersed professional services teams. Dan earned his BA in Marketing & Computer Science from the University of Akron.
Carrie Liebentritt
VP, Global Talent Acquisition

Angela Malley is MercuryGate’s General Counsel responsible for worldwide legal affairs and compliance. She has extensive experience representing technology companies in commercial, compliance, litigation, IP, securities and international law matters.

In her last position, Angela was Executive Director of Legal Affairs & Head of Legal at Logi Analytics. Prior to Logi Analytics, Angela held positions at BroadSoft, OPNET Technologies (acquired by Riverbed Technology), and Pace Global Energy. She has a law degree from American University, Washington College of Law, where she served as the Senior Recent Developments Editor for the Administrative Law review, and a BS in Cellular Biology with a minor in Chemistry.

Jason Liner

VP, Finance & Accounting

Angela Malley

General Counsel

Karen Oxenford-Melcher​

VP, Global Pre-Sales & Sales Operations

Jim Nortz

VP, Global Support

Alejandro Jose Phillips
VP, Global Business Development
Jennifer Saunders​

EVP, Customer Success

Vicki Warker

VP, Global Product Management

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