Bio

As a leading visionary, strategy consultant, advisor and board member in the global postal-parcel-logistics-delivery space, John heads consultancy Ursa Major Associates, LLC. Based on early entrepreneurial instincts and successes , always keeping his eye on the horizon, John has applied his intuitive inclination toward the creation and execution of innovative growth strategies for more than forty years. As a start-up founder, CEO, senior marketing executive and consultant for public and private, large and small, domestic and global companies alike, John has led innovative strategic business development initiatives in the postal-parcel-delivery-logistics field. He founded and grew pioneer global courier service, Calico Air Courier, merged it into DHL Express and served DHL as its first VP Marketing. He served TNT Skypak as President, Purolator Courier as SVP Marketing and Sales and DHL Global Mail as VP Strategy and Business Development. He led start-ups in the fields of international re-mail and desktop shipping and served PwC's postal practice as “thought-leader” on strategy projects for USPS. John co-founded logistics consultancy Ursa Major Associates in 2001 and advises postal regulators, leading corporations and start-ups in strategy development. Since 2010 he has served on the U.S. Dept. of State International Postal and Delivery Services Advisory Council (IPODs). He launched the acclaimed, independent, PostalVision 2020 Initiative and Conference in 2010, designed to reinvent the postal ecosystem and is passed it on to Marketfoce - Leaders In Logistics in 2020. Serving his penchant for advising start-ups, since 2019, John serves as a Mentor for Plug And Play's Supply Chain Vertical. As a world-renowned postal - parcel - delivery industry expert, John is a frequent speaker at global industry conferences such as Post Expo, The World Postal Business Forum, World Mail and Express, the National Postal Forum, Leaders In Logistics and of course at PostalVision 2020. His astute observations and opinions on trends are often seen, heard and read on CNBC, NPR Marketplace, Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Kiplinger's, Postal Technology International, Parcel Magazine, and eCommerce Bytes.