Executive Officers

Benjamin Gordon, 40
Chief Executive Officer, Secretary, Treasurer and Director

Mr. Gordon founded BG Strategic Advisors in 2002 and has served as its managing director since. BGSA is a leading investment bank in the supply chain industry. Clients include firms in trucking, warehousing, logistics, freight forwarding, truck brokerage, distribution, and other supply chain segments. Mr. Gordon has also been the chief executive officer of Cambridge Capital LLC since its founding in 2009. Cambridge Capital is the merchant banking investment partner of BGSA. In 1999, Mr. Gordon founded and ran 3PLex, a web-based transportation management systems company that was sold to Maersk in 2002. From 1995 to 1998, Mr. Gordon led strategic projects in transportation and technology at Mercer Management Consulting, where he developed one of the first e-marketplace strategies for a logistics client. Mr. Gordon is a recognized expert on the supply chain sector, and has been quoted extensively by national media including CNBC, The New York Times, Business Week, ABC, Lehrer News Hour, Journal of Commerce, Transport Topics, Supply Chain Management Quarterly, and Traffic World. Mr. Gordon has been a featured speaker at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), NASSTRAC, the Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA), AMB, the International Warehousing and Logistics Association (IWLA), and other industry events. Mr. Gordon is also an active civic leader, serving as a board member of the Palm Beach United Way, the Palm Beach Federation, the Joint Distribution Committee, and other community organizations. Mr. Gordon also serves as chairman of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) of Palm Beach.

Mitchell Gordon, 56
President, Chief Financial Officer and Director

Mr. Gordon has served as a partner of BGSA and Cambridge Capital LLC since November 2013. From 2003 to November 2013, Mr. Gordon was the president of Morpheus Capital Advisors, an investment firm serving middle market and growth companies. From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Gordon served as executive vice president and chief financial officer and member of the Office of the President of Interpool, one of the world’s largest marine container and chassis leasing companies which was listed on the NYSE. Before joining Interpool, he was the founder and president of Atlas Capital, a private equity firm focused on acquiring transportation companies, from 1998 to 2000. Prior to that, he served as co-head of the Transportation Investment Banking Group at Salomon Smith Barney (now Citi Investment Banking) and head of the Transportation and Automotive Investment Banking Groups at Furman Selz. Mr. Gordon serves on the board of directors of Mesa Air Group, Inc. and has served on the public company board of Indigo Aviation AB, a leading aircraft leasing company and on the board of Almedica Corporation, a health care logistics company. He also served on the global advisory board of Nedship Bank, NV, a Rotterdam-based bank focused on the shipping, logistics and energy sectors. He is a board member of the Best-Shot Foundation and is chairman of the Hunter College (CUNY) neighborhood Advisory Committee. He is a co-founder and past president of the Olin Club of New York.

Board of Directors

Michael Durham, 62
Director

Mr. Durham is currently a director of Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. and its primary subsidiary, The Hertz Corporation. Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. is principally engaged in the global car rental industry and in the equipment rental industry through The Hertz Corporation. Previously, Mr. Durham served as director, president and chief executive officer of Sabre, Inc. (“Sabre”), then a NYSE-listed company providing information technology services to the travel industry, from October 1996, the date of Sabre’s initial public offering, to October 1999. From March 1995 to July 1996, when Sabre was a subsidiary of AMR Corporation, he served as Sabre’s president. Prior to joining Sabre, Mr. Durham spent approximately 16 years with American Airlines, serving as the senior vice president and treasurer of AMR Corporation and senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer of American Airlines from October 1989 until he assumed the position of president of Sabre in March 1995. From its formation in 2000 until 2012, Mr. Durham had been the president of Cognizant Associates, Inc., an independent consulting company he formed. During this time, Mr. Durham also served on the boards of directors of numerous private and publicly listed companies, including Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. (where for part of his tenure he served as the non-executive chairman of the board), Acxiom Corporation (where he was also non-executive chair for part of his tenure), NWA Corp. (the parent company of Northwest Airlines) and AGL Resources, Inc. Mr. Durham has also served on the board of directors of Bombardier, Inc., a publicly-traded Canadian corporation.

Nathan Gantcher, 73
Director

Mr. Gantcher is the managing member of EXOP Capital LLC, an investment firm he founded in 2005. From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Gantcher served as a member of the board of directors of Refco, Inc. and a member of the board of directors of Neuberger Berman, a NYSE-listed company, and served as a member of its audit and compensation committees, from 2001 until 2003. Mr. Gantcher also served as the co-chairman, president and chief executive officer of Alpha Investment Management L.L.C. from 2001 until July 2004. Prior to joining Alpha Investment Management L.L.C., Mr. Gantcher was a private investor from 1999 to 2001. Mr. Gantcher served as vice chairman of CIBC Oppenheimer Corp. from 1997 to 1999. Prior to becoming vice chairman of CIBC Oppenheimer Corp., Mr. Gantcher served as co-chief executive officer and chief operating officer of Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. Mr. Gantcher currently serves as member of the board of directors of Mack-Cali Realty Corporation and is a member of its audit committee, nominating and corporate governance committee and executive committee. Previously, Mr. Gantcher served as a member of the board of directors of NDS Group Ltd. from 2004 to February 2009, and was a member of the compensation committee and the audit committee of the board of directors of NDS Group Ltd. Mr. Gantcher also served as a member of the board of directors of Centerline Holding Company from 2003 to 2008, and as a member of its nominating and governance, compensation and capital markets committees. Mr. Gantcher also served as a member of the board of directors of Liberty Acquisition Holdings Corp., a blank check company that completed a business combination with Promotora de Informaciones, S.A. in November 2010, and as a member of its audit, compensation and governance, and nominating committees.

Scott Laurans, 66
Director

Mr. Laurans has served as a managing director in the Rhode Island and Florida offices of The Bank of New York Mellon, a leading investment management and investment services company, since 2005. He has also been affiliated with the Lifespan Health System, Rhode Island’s first health system, since its establishment in 1994, serving as chair of the finance committee, and most recently becoming its chairman of the board in December 2011. From 1991 to 2005, he was a managing director and partner of The Providence Group Investment Advisory Company of Providence, Rhode Island, which was sold to The Bank of New York Mellon in 2005. From 1988 to 1991, he served as president of the New England division of Wetterau of St. Louis. From 1971 to 1988, he held various positions eventually becoming president, chief executive officer and owner of Roger Williams Foods of Providence, Rhode Island, a full-line distributor of food products to the retail and wholesale food industry throughout New England, which was sold to Wetterau of St. Louis. Mr. Laurans has served as a director or advisor for a number of companies including Giant Food, Inc. (formerly an American Stock Exchange-listed company) and C&S Wholesale Grocery Company.