| Michael Diaz - Principal |
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Michael Diaz has thirty-five years executive experience in domestic and international transportation and
logistics that spans all rail, highway and ocean disciplines. The majority of Mr. Diaz's career was with American President
Lines LTD. Mr. Diaz was responsible for the combined P&L of the corporation ($2.8 billion in sales), managed the domestic
transportation group, developed and grew the third party logistics entity and operated overseas as general manager and
later president of all offshore divisions. As President of the offshore divisions, Mr. Diaz opened the China market for
APL. He was COO of the domestic units and Chairman, American Consolidated Services.
Mr. Diaz was responsible for the
introduction of the first non-Panamax containerships in the industry to the transpacific trade. This introduction required
structural changes in pricing and marketing, deployments, port facilities and handling. He was also Managing Director for
APL's port operations at Los Angeles, Oakland and Taiwan. Most recently Mr. Diaz has worked with Manalytics/Transystems,
one of the country's largest transportation design firms in a contract consulting position. Mr. Diaz completed the Stanford
Graduate School of Business Executive Management Program and holds a Bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts from Dartmouth
College.
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