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Marine Log Employees
Fabio Brocca, chief product officer, Xeneta
Oslo-headquartered ocean and air freight price benchmarking and market analytics platform Xeneta has appointed Fabio Brocca as its chief product officer.
Brocca, who was beforehand head of product for world transportation know-how at Amazon, says that his expertise at Amazon confirmed him “the significance of working backwards from the shopper and the way a best-in-class tech firm is run.”
Brocca’s new function will see him additional develop Xeneta’s platform, which already calls upon greater than 400 million crowdsourced datapoints on ocean and air freight delivery charges to convey transparency to an in any other case opaque market.
Brocca has additionally held the place of director of enterprise transformation at MSC – the world’s largest ocean freight delivery firm.
“I’ve witnessed first-hand companies throughout the freight trade with sluggish and inefficient processes, tendering departments working time beyond regulation day-after-day for 3 months and nonetheless taking weeks to shut a young – then doing this time and again over a number of rounds,” says Brocca.“There’s a lack of visibility available in the market on how a lot companies needs to be paying for ocean and air freight.”
Xeneta is about to launch the subsequent technology of its platform in 2024 with previews being showcased on the upcoming TPM24 trade summit in Lengthy Seashore, Calif.
Brocca joins Xeneta following the appointments of Tonia Luykx as chief income officer and Hugo Grimston as chief finance officer up to now 12 months.
“I knew we wanted a world expertise who brings a novel understanding of the Xeneta platform, the issues we try to unravel for patrons and our imaginative and prescient for the longer term,” says Xeneta CEO Patrik Berglund. “Fabio has an especially related background having labored throughout the delivery and freight trade at MSC whereas additionally having been a product chief in a world, market-leading logistics firm like Amazon.”
