Vice President for Maritime & Trade and supply chain within the Market Intelligence division of S&P Global; responsible for coverage, conference programs, and other independent editorial content produced by the leading team of journalists globally covering the container shipping supply chains, trade and logistics via the Journal of Commerce. A career business journalist, previously served as shipping and international trade reporter, bureau chief, assistant managing editor and editor in chief of the Journal of Commerce newspaper; head of the JOC publishing group; and Senior Vice President for strategy for the JOC business. Founder and chairman of the TPM conference, the world's largest container shipping event founded in 2001; columnist and regular speaker at industry events worldwide.