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Dave Bedwell joined with China's national flag container carrier ‘COSCO Container Lines' 23 years ago on June 16th, 1994. At COSCO, Dave held the position of Executive Vice President, in charge of COSCO's Canadian headquarters located in downtown Vancouver with inland subsidiary offices in both Toronto and Montreal. Dave is very passionate about the current and future improvement of international trade moving through Canadian ports, particularly on BC's West Coast. He is a strong advocate of creating strategies to improve fluidity and velocity to Canada's Asia Pacific Gateway. Additionally, he is very well known in the local Vancouver's transportation community, having held positions in a variety of industry boards and committees.

David collaborates with industry colleagues on commercial and digital initiatives that can strengthen Canada’s container-based supply chain. And he continues to work with marine and intermodal clients after concluding a long career with the AP Moller-Maersk. He was President of Maersk Canada and previously worked for Maersk in the U.S., Denmark and Mexico. Career assignments were in sales and marketing, liner operations, network development and vessel deployment plans, and vessel-sharing agreements. While heading Maersk’s Mexican and Canadian organizations he expanded services and port coverage, managed partnerships and acquisitions in 3PL logistics, ran an intermodal rail service from Manzanillo to Mexico City, and started container trucking companies.

John has over 25 years of international experience in corporate finance, private equity and M&A. John was previously Vice President of Corporate Development at Brookfield Asset Management and is currently the principal of Windrock Associates where he advises boards, executive management teams and third party capital providers in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, restructuring and public listings. John holds an Engineering degree from University of Toronto, and an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business.

Peter Ladouceur worked at CN Rail over the course of three decades in Engineering, Operations, Sales and Marketing capacities wherein he learned the key principles of bulk, break-bulk and overseas container cargo segments. Based on Vancouver Island, BC, Peter follows international container trade  closely and acts as a logistics consultant to port authorities, most recently as a Member of the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority’s Active Vessel Traffic Management Panel. A lifelong learner, he holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering (McGill) and a M.B.A (University of Alberta) as well as various Transport Canada/Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary/Civil Air Search and Rescue Association emergency response qualifications.

Kathleen has over 25 years in the Ocean Transportation business. She started her career with Maersk in customer service and continued into trade management.  She transitioned into the role of product manager for ocean rating products for Descartes and then was recruited as a first hire for INTTRA, the first multi-carrier ocean portal.  Kathleen also has an extensive background in consulting for web-based logistics systems: including container depot management, chassis management, ocean & air cargo rating as well as the replacement of an Enterprise Management System.  Kathleen has an MBA with a concentration in International Business from Fairleigh Dickinson University.