Velant Names John Martin Senior Vice President of Sales
ATLANTA--March 12, 2002--Velant, Inc., the leading provider of transportation planning solutions, today announced the appointment of John P. Martin as Senior Vice President of Sales.
Mr. Martin will lead the company's sales force and be responsible for growing the client base for Velant's Transportation Management Center (TMC) solution.
Prior to joining Velant, Mr. Martin served as Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Business Development for NTE, a leading Web-based logistics technology and execution company. In his first year at NTE, Mr. Martin generated a nearly five-fold improvement in company revenues and established partnerships with key supply chain companies including, SAP, i2 and Manugistics.
Dr. Don Ratliff, Velant's President and CEO, commented, "With his extensive transportation and logistics background as well as his proven record in building and leading successful sales teams, John is an excellent addition to our management team. His understanding of the market after 17 years of working with both young and established supply chain companies, will be instrumental in helping us increase our market penetration."
In addition to his experience at NTE, Mr. Martin served as Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain Management for BAX Global, Inc., where he led the group's sales team and developed ERP solution sets now deployed in over 45 countries. Mr. Martin has also held various positions with other major transportation companies including Skyway Freight Systems, North American Van Lines, and American Airlines.
Mr. Martin said, "Velant has an opportunity to vastly improve the efficiency of truck transportation with the company's next-generation optimization technology and fundamentally new approach to transportation planning. I'm joining Velant at a very exciting time and am looking forward to helping grow the company into a key player in the transportation management space."
Mr. Martin studied Transportation Economics at the University of Illinois and served in the United States Marine Corps.
About Velant(TM)
Velant provides premium transportation planning solutions to private and dedicated fleets, commercial carriers and shippers. The company's Transportation Management Center (TMC) solution is offered as a managed service, leveraging a combination of next-generation technology and logistics specialists to greatly improve the efficiency of truck transportation. Velant's TMC solution optimizes a wide range of logistics decisions, including vehicle routing and scheduling, load building, fleet backhaul coordination, and shipment planning. For more information on Atlanta-based Velant, visit www.velant.com.