• TPM24
  • March 3-6, 2024 | Long Beach Convention Center

Gene Gander

WiseTech Global

General Manager, Global Sales

Gene leads the global sales team for WiseTech Global who’s business spans 174 countries, with 24 of the top 25 largest Freight Forwarders as customers.

Gene is focused on helping international logistics providers to harness digital technology to operate more efficiently, effectively and productively. He draws on more than 25 years of industry experience to help clients find solutions that support them through the ever-changing business cycles of the logistics industry, while driving ongoing digital innovation across the sector.

Having joined WiseTech more than 20 years ago, Gene helps clients adopt proven long-term resilient solutions, balanced with the expectation to continually raise the bar through innovation. This includes moving beyond mere visibility to provide actionable data and automation to add real value to their business and help the industry move to true end-to-end connectivity.

Gene holds a Bachelor of Science, Marketing and Management from the University of Northern Iowa.

Sessions With Gene Gander

Tuesday, 5 March

  • 02:45pm - 03:15pm (PST) / 05/mar/2024 10:45 pm - 05/mar/2024 11:15 pm

    TPMTech: Flight to Safety? Shippers Return to “Known Commodity” Platforms as Supply Chain Desperation Recedes

    The 2020-2021 pandemic years saw an explosion of new technology providers in the logistics industry, as well as heightened levels of desperation-driven investment by shippers and 3PLs into tools to manage the disruptive bottlenecks of that period. But the market has cooled noticeably since mid-2022. Gone are the short-lived days of breakneck decision-making, panicked experimentation, and multi-year, over-the-market contract costs. In short, the logistics industry has returned to its previous behavior: deliberate sales cycles, healthy skepticism, and an aversion to overpaying. This also means a reversion to platforms that feel more comfortable to buyers in the space, from order management and transportation management to transactional visibility. With the sharp edges of the pandemic supply chain crisis having eroded, buyers now are looking at platforms and software categories with a track record for delivering return on investment. This session will examine the extent to which buyers in the market are seeking out technology “security blankets” in a market where margins, demand, and desperation have all receded.