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Matt Godfrey
President
ABF Freight
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Matt Godfrey is president of ABF Freight®, an ArcBest® company and one of the nation’s largest, most trusted less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers. With a deep knowledge of freight operations gained from 20 years at the company, a focus on innovative technology and a dedication to customer experience, Matt is advancing ABF’s growth and profitability. As President of ABF Freight, Matt champions ABF’s Quality Process, promoting a commitment to excellence and a culture of safety for our people, facilities, equipment and customers’ freight. Matt joined the company in 2004 as an ABF Management Trainee. Since that time, he has gained extensive knowledge and experience serving in various pivotal roles, including operations supervisor, account manager, service center manager and regional vice president, before being promoted to Vice President of Engineering in 2021. In August 2024, Matt was appointed President of ABF Freight. Under Matt’s guidance, ABF’s optimization efforts have significantly improved capacity and delivered customer value. His vision for continuous improvement and commitment to excellence have driven strategic initiatives such as ABF City Route Optimization, which optimizes how shipments are routed in our ABF network to increase capacity and enhance efficiency in our city operation. Matt’s leadership has also been instrumental in ABF’s facility enhancement and growth roadmap — building efficiencies and creating better experiences for ABF employees and customers. Since 2021, ABF has added over 550 doors. Matt also champions ABF’s sustainability initiatives, prioritizing the environmental sustainability of ABF’s equipment, operations and facilities. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business logistics from Penn State. Outside the OfficeFeed the Children Transportation |
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Steven Leonard
Chief Commercial Officer and President, Asset-Light Logistics
ArcBest
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Steven Leonard is the Chief Commercial Officer and President of Asset-Light Logistics at ArcBest®. With over 20 years of experience, his focus is on supporting our customers’ supply chain needs through our extensive capacity network. Steven has a deep understanding of ArcBest’s full suite of shipping and logistics solutions and is tuned in to our customers’ supply chain challenges. His teams work to leverage our expertise and scalability to ensure customers receive best-in-class service, which includes getting the right solution at the right time at a rate that makes sense. In his career at ArcBest, Steven served as one of the driving forces behind the company’s coordinated efforts in 2020 to better align sales and marketing operations. The company utilized data, analytics and improved processes to make better decisions, with the goal of identifying customer needs and continuously meeting and exceeding their expectations. In 2005, he led the redevelopment of ArcBest’s time-critical business, which allowed the company to focus on customers’ time-sensitive shipping challenges. This transformative initiative helped grow time-critical business by more than 400 percent and set in motion the company’s ability to meet a variety of customer needs that still exist today. Steven was named Chief Commercial Officer and President of Asset-Light Logistics in March 2023 after serving as Chief Sales and Customer Engagement Officer since April 2020. In this role, he led the company’s sales and customer solutions teams, coordinating and aligning the ArcBest sales and customer support initiatives. From November 2014 to December 2016, he served as Vice President – Global Forwarding for Panther Premium Logistics®. Steven joined the company in 2001 as a quotation analyst for U-Pack®, and in his tenure with the company has held positions that include Manager of Quotation Services, Manager of TimeKeeper Pricing, Director of Strategic Planning and Divisional Vice President. Steven holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Arkansas. In the Media:Check Call with ArcBest’s Steven Leonard: No charges for LTL Outside the Office:Youth Little League Football and Baseball Coach |
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Michael E. Newcity
Chief Innovation Officer and President, ArcBest Technologies
ArcBest
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Michael Newcity is the Chief Innovation Officer of ArcBest and President of ArcBest Technologies. With nearly 30 years of technology, finance, and strategy experience, Michael champions the advancement of ArcBest’s culture of innovation. His teams of highly engaged and creative technologists listen to our customers’ challenges and develop leading-edge solutions that enable more sustainable supply chains and drive the logistics industry forward. Michael’s leadership has also been instrumental in driving several enterprise-wide initiatives, including advancements in business intelligence, strategy management, and e-commerce. With a strong emphasis on disruptive technology, also significant in Michael’s career includes his role in steering the development of Vaux. Vaux is a ground-breaking patented system that completely transforms how freight is loaded, unloaded and worked in warehouses and distribution centers. It employs a deep technology stack, including custom mechanical engineering, edge computing, IoT, proprietary cloud software and advanced analytics. Michael began his career with the company in 1993, serving in several management and director roles before being named ArcBest’s Chief Financial Officer in 2010. In 2013, his responsibilities expanded to oversee corporate information technology and economic analysis as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, where he served through the end of 2014 when he transitioned into his current role as Chief Innovation Officer and President of ArcBest Technologies. Michael holds a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems from the University of Arkansas and an M.B.A. from the Walton College at the University of Arkansas. He also completed executive education programs at Chicago Booth, Columbia, Harvard, and the London Business School. Awards and Accolades Phantom Auto |
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