• TPM25
  • March 2-5, 2025 | Long Beach Convention Center

Lori Ann LaRocco

CNBC

Senior Editor of Guests and Global Supply Chain Reporter

Lori Ann LaRocco is senior editor of guests and global supply chain reporter for CNBC Business News. She coordinates high profile interviews and special multimillion-dollar on-location productions for all shows on the network. Her specialty is in politics, working with titans of industry. LaRocco is the author of: Embracing Your Past to Empower Your Future: Four Families Descended from Slaves Reflect on Stories of Strength, Love & Gratitude; Trade War: Containers Don’t Lie, Navigating the Bluster; Dynasties of the Sea: The Untold Stories of the Postwar Shipping Pioneers; Opportunity Knocking; Dynasties of the Sea: The Ships and Entrepreneurs Who Ushered in the Era of Free Trade; and Thriving in the New Economy: Lessons from Today’s Top Business Minds. LaRocco’s nonprofit Embracing Your Past to Empower Your Future, INC. has partnered with DHL Group to establish the Pollee and Rose Allen School of Logistics and Trade to offer education and upskilling in supply chain, logistics and trade to support disadvantaged young Americans. Based near historic Africatown, Alabama the school provides free bi-monthly seminars, offering students aged 16 and up actionable knowledge about job opportunities in the world of trade and logistics.

Sessions With Lori Ann LaRocco

Monday, 3 March

  • 09:30am - 10:15am (PST) / 03/mar/2025 05:30 pm - 03/mar/2025 06:15 pm

    TPM25 CEO Series: A Conversation With MSC's Soren Toft

    We are pleased to announce Soren Toft, CEO of MSC, the world's largest container line, will participate at TPM25 in a session moderated by CNBC producer and well-known container shipping journalist Lori Ann LaRocco. Soren has been chief executive officer of MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company since December 2020. He oversees all of MSC’s global cargo businesses including the ocean line MSC, the logistics activities of MEDLOG, the MSC Air Cargo planes, through to the towage activities of MedTug and Log-in Logistica, among others. He is also a member of the board of directors of the World Shipping Council, and Terminal Investment Ltd., the terminals business majority-owned by MSC. Before joining MSC, he was chief operating officer and a member of the executive board at Maersk. During his time at Maersk from 1994, he held various leadership positions in Europe and Asia. Soren was also chairman of Hamburg Süd, Maersk Oil Trading and Maersk Container Industry. Soren holds an executive MBA from IMD (International Institute for Management Development) in Lausanne, Switzerland. 

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