Program Advisory Board

Andrew Young

Corporate Manager of Logistics and Manager BGL Bechtel Global Logistics

Andrew Young is the Corporate Manager of Logistics and Manager of Bechtel Global Logistics, responsible for developing a coordinated logistic strategy across all business units. His focus is on; advancing and integrating logistics across the full spectrum of projects – from feasibility studies to project execution, supporting ‘EPC’ integration, and delivering optimized solutions to projects and clients based on cost, schedule and risk mitigation. He provides leadership and guidance to logistics
staff deployed on projects globally, and a centralized core team responsible for maintaining a functional logistics support structure that provides direct assistance to individual projects, optimizes synergies across projects, and institutes processes and procedures that standardize best practice across the company. 

Andy’s Bechtel experience includes three years as the Transport Assurance Manager – where he was recognized as a ‘Bechtel Distinguished Technical Specialist’ [BDTS], three years as the OG&C Functional Logistics Manager, two years as the Chartering Supervisor for the Wheatstone LNG Project and two years in the field as the In-Country Logistics Manager for the Curtis Islands LNG projects in Australia.  Prior to Bechtel, Andy worked as a Technical Project Logistics Manager for Alstom Power in Switzerland and prior to that he was a Commercial Manager (Sales, Tendering and Project Management) for Abnormal Load Engineering in the UK.  


 

Bill Keyes

Director of Logistics Fluor

Bill is an experienced and proven leader with over 25 years of logistics and supply chain experience. He has spent much of his career in the field and has traveled extensively throughout the United States, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, North and East Africa, and Asia. This experience has given him a comprehensive perspective of the importance of early planning and setting a logistics strategy for the successful execution of capital projects. He has a wealth of expertise in the project sector, supporting Fluor's Energy, Urban, and Mission Solutions business lines. 
 
He is currently the Fluor Logistics Lead on a net-zero carbon emissions integrated ethylene cracker and derivatives project. His previous professional experience is as a Director of Construction Logistics for NEOM and Fluor's Global Director for Logistics Operations. He retired from the US Army in 2012. 

 

Dennis Devlin

Project Logistics Business Development Director Maersk Project Logistics

Dennis Devlin is Head of Growth, North America with Maersk Project Logistics.   He has spent most of his career in various roles in the field of project logistics.

Prior to his current role with Maersk, he held various positions of increasing responsibility for BDP International in Philadelphia at BDP’s corporate headquarters, in Shanghai where he had regional responsibility for project logistics in Asia, and later in Houston.  He also worked previously in the Panprojects Division of Panalpina, and for DB Schenker and GEODIS.  

He also serves on the Editorial Board of Breakbulk Magazine and on the Advisory Board for the Breakbulk Americas Conference.  He has been a past speaker at various Breakbulk Americas Conferences since the early 2000s.

Dennis is a native of Wilmington, Delaware, and a 1987 honors graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, with degrees in Economics and Political Science.  He also pursued studies in Glasgow, Scotland, where he struggled to understand Glaswegian English; in Paris, France where he studied (and learned) French; and in Taipei, Taiwan and Shanghai, China, where he studied Mandarin Chinese.  

 

Dominic Sun

Director, Trade Development Port Houston

Dominic Sun was named Director of Trade Development in January 2019. He has 34+ years of professional experience with ocean carriers, domestic and international freight forwarders, and global 3PLs in the US. His most recent position prior to joining the port was as Director of Strategic Accounts with CMA CGM, the world’s third largest ocean carriers, where he had a 11-year tenure and held expanding roles in the US West and Gulf Coasts.

Sun earned his bachelor’s degree in Finance with concentration in Real Estate from University of Southern California.
 

Ed Bastian

Global Sales Director BBC Chartering USA

Edwin Bastian joined BBC Chartering  in August 0f 2007. He currently serves as Global Sales Director and leads the strategic sales initiative for the largest global breakbulk and project chartering fleet in the world.  

During Ed’s 40 year career, he has held management positions with following companies, NYK North America, Evergreen Marine, Port of Long Beach, Jones Stevedoring and Nautilus Leasing, UBS and Morgan Stanley.

Ed is an active member of various industry organizations including International Transportation Management Association of Houston, Railway Industrial Clearance Association, Editorial Advisory Board for Breakbulk Magazine, Breakbulk Americas Program Advisory Board and serves on the board of Maritime Workers Emergency Medical Fund, a Texas 501©(3). Ed also is frequently invited as a guest speaker and panelist at trade luncheons and events both inside and outside the Houston area.
 

Iker Domingo

Vice President of Chartering & Projects SAL Heavy Lift, Inc

Iker Domingo is the VP of Chartering & Projects for SAL Heavy Lift, member of the JSI Alliance.
He has worked in the transportation and logistics industry for over 20 years, holding different positions in operations, chartering and business development. 
Since 2014, Iker works for SAL Heavy Lift in Houston in several chartering and project development roles.

In 2008, he graduated from the University of Houston with a Bachelor in Business administration and holds a MBA from Mccombs University of Texas.
 

Jake Swanson

Regional Vice President, Head of Americas Region, Industrial Projects DHL Industrial Projects

Jake Swanson is the Regional Head of the Americas Region for DHL Industrial Projects. He has worked with DHL for 5 years in various capacities within the Industrial Projects group.  He has worked in the transportation and logistics industry for over 20 years, and has experience on the EPC, Project ocean carrier and freight forwarder sides of the industry. He graduated from the United States Merchant Marine Academy with a Bachelor of Science in Logistics and Intermodal Transportation and then spent a year sailing on container vessels. Swanson holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Houston.


 

Jessica Brown

Senior Tender Manager Deugro

John Amos

Consultant Amos Logistics

John Amos is an international logistics and transportation consultant specializing in issues related to planning, operations and regulatory issues. His experience encompasses the fields of ocean, air and surface transportation. For more than 45 years he has had international and North American positions in the fields of logistics, procurement and construction management.

Kasey Eckstein

President Eckstein Trade & Transport

Kasey Eckstein is the current executive director of Women in Maritime Operations and was the founder of the organization in 2017. She is also the founder and president of Eckstein Trade & Transport “ET&T”, a certified woman-owned small business specializing in marine transportation services and recruitment services specializing in female placement. Kasey is also the owner of Eckstein Fleeting Services. Kasey graduated from the College of Charleston with a bachelor's degree in corporate communications with a concentration in marketing. She has over a decade of experience in the maritime industry with expertise in transporting liquid and dry cargoes via barge along the entire U.S. Inland Waterway System. Kasey has previously served as the youngest board member in the history of the Mississippi Valley Trade and Transport Council, was the youngest recipient of the Inland Marine Expos 40 Under 40 Award in 2018 and was a Marine Log Magazine Top Woman in Maritime in 2021. Kasey also currently sits on the board of Breakbulk Americas.

Leandro Brusque

Supply Chain Manager, Subsea Construction Ocyan Oil & Gas

Mac Bruton

Vice President, Business Development Intermarine

Marco Poisler

COO – Global Energy & Capital Projects UTC Overseas

Payne A. Fischer

Regional Manager - Industrial Projects NAM Kuehne + Nagel Inc.

Stephen Spoljaric

Corporate Manager of Global Logistics Bechtel Corporation