Alabama Economics Club Meeting ft. David Custred and Ben Barnes

100 Corporate Parkway,Hoover AL 35242

25 March, 2022

Description

Trucking and Transportation: Challenges and Innovation Supply chain snafus have dominated newscycles and caused issues for businesses and consumers since the pandemic began. Birmingham-based McLeod Software is a leading provider of transportation management and trucking software and has deep insight into the challenges and opportunities facing the industry. Join us at their corporate training facility to hear from two of their leaders and learn more. David Custred, CTB is the Vice President of Operations for McLeod Software. David joined McLeod in 1998 as a veteran of the software industry and has been instrumental in numerous phases of client services and product development. David has a passion for service and providing exceptional customer experiences through developing ownership and personal growth. His Teams serve McLeod customers for all aspects of service and delivery including Implementation, Training, Customer Care/Support, Customer Experience, EDI, Integration, Imaging, and Financial Software Services. David is also a teacher in his local church and serves the local businesses for development within the city/county and is currently the Board Chair for the Hoover Area Chamber of Commerce. Ben Barnes is the VP of IT Services and Chief Information Security Officer for McLeod Software. His leadership guides the company’s IT direction, IT initiatives, and cyber solutions. Ben has provided technical services and lead IT strategies in the transportation industry for over 20 years. He has a deep understanding of IT infrastructures, disaster recovery planning, IT security, and IT cloud provider solutions. Leading multiple IT teams, he is responsible for providing customers with an IT strategy solution, corporate IT solutions, McLeod dedicated customer cloud solutions, and a corporate cyber security framework. Ben has had many of his presentations published in industry periodicals and is a frequent presenter at transportation industry conferences on the subjects of IT initiative in the transportation industry and cybercrime.