Robert Shagawat

President and CEO

Mr. Shagawat also serves as President of Shippers Commonwealth LLC, which he co-founded as leading Transportation Management Systems provider. He has over 20 years of P&L management experience as managing director of the leading information technology firms and information service providers in the logistics automation field. This includes executive experience as Managing Director for the global Supply Chain Systems (Decision Support integrated with Electronic Commerce) at Westinghouse (founder and General Manager of Westinghouse Sure Shipping), Weseley Software (acquired by McHugh/RedPrairie) as former COO and business architect of the original expanded RedPrairie/McHugh TMS offering, General Electric Information Services (GEIS), and BellSouth Wireless Data. He pioneered Collaborative Transportation and Multi-Shipper Trading Partner Networks beginning with ground breaking work on the first ever shipper consortium R&D program in 1992 - 1995. Mr. Shagawat served as Director of Strategic Investments & Mergers/Acquisitions at Westinghouse in his 15 year international management career with this firm, prior to serving as founding sponsor and managing director of the Westinghouse Sure Shipping venture in growing this business from 1990 - 1995, leading to its successful sale. Mr. Shagawat also directed Logistics Planning Center as a highly successful, full service logistics consultancy from 1995 through 2000. He holds a BS from Georgetown University, with advanced graduate studies, and is well known as frequent lecturer, instructor, and author in the logistics automation and e-Commerce community.