Less than a week after he left the role of CEO of Amazon Worldwide, Dave Clark says he is taking on the same position at logistics firm Flexport beginning in September.
“The supply chain has entered everyday national discourse for all the wrong reasons,” Clark wrote on LinkedIn Wednesday (June 8). “Put simply, the United States supply chain suffers from a significant fragmentation of technology and process.”
Flexport, he argues, has tried to address the problem by “tackling the most complicated piece of the supply chain: the global cross-border movement of goods.”
Clark says it’s an area few technology companies won’t touch because of an array of regulations, long geographic distance and a siloed provider network.
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“Flexport has not flinched,” he wrote. “They have built a technology platform that solves for this challenging integration of technology and the physical world by connecting the entire ecosystem of global trade. This monumental accomplishment is empowering buyers, sellers, and logistics providers of all sizes to grow and scale.”
Amazon announced last week that Clark would step down from his role as chief executive of Amazon Worldwide Consumer as of July 1, after 23 years with the company.
A former music teacher, Clark joined Amazon’s Operations Pathways program in 1999 after earning his MBA. He held the position of operations manager in Kentucky and general manager for the Northeast and before moving to Amazon’s Worldwide operations.
Based in San Francisco, Flexport offers services in transportation, trade management and logistics management.
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Last year, the company partnered with digital freight provider Convoy to launch a centralized platform for supply chains.
The companies said it is a central shared-data platform that works to integrate shipments across both platforms, attempting to address the issue that shippers face when tracking shipments across different logistics providers and digital solutions while freight moves from international to domestic destinations.
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