Influential Black Women

Black History Month: CEO Hope White shares struggles and hope

Hope White shares her story for Black History Month.

Editor’s note: Hope White, founder and CEO at H.D. White Logistics, considers “every month Black History Month” but says it’s nice to set aside one month each year to celebrate people of color. As part of FreightWaves’ coverage of Black History Month, White shared her struggles to get promoted after entering the logistics world and discussed the challenges she still faces as a minority business owner. 

Hope White started her career in logistics in 2014 as a general office associate for inbound...

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Career Tracks: Former Freightquote COO tapped to lead VeriShip

VeriShip, an SaaS-based business optimization and spend management platform, has hired logistics industry veteran and former company adviser Shawn McCarrick as chief executive officer.

VeriShip said it has been controlling shipping expenses for small and midsize businesses for 15 years, with data and analysis on 70 million packages shipped annually through DHL, FedEx, UPS and Fulfillment by Amazon. 

McCarrick spent nearly a decade with freight services broker Freightquote. He joined the company...

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