2024 — Heather Sheehan, Owner & Managing Director of Crispy Concepts
2023 — Theodore P. Stank, Bruce Chair & Professor of Supply Chain Management, University of Tennessee
2022 — Masao Nishi, Principal of M. Nishi Strategic Advisory
2021 — Dale Rogers, ON Semiconductor Professor of Business, Arizona State University
2020 — Matthew A. Waller, Ph.D., Dean, Sam M. Walton College of Business
2019 — Kathy Wengel, EVP & Chief Global Supply Chain Officer, Johnson & Johnson
2018 — Dr. John Gattorna, Author, Academic & Principal, Gattorna Alignment
2017 — Dr. Nancy Nix, Executive Director, AWESOME
2016 — Dr. Chris Caplice, Executive Director, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics
2015 — Robert Martichenko, CEO, LeanCor Supply Chain Group
2014 — Mike Regan, Chief of Relationship Development, TranzAct Technologies, Inc.
2013 — Abré Pienaar, CEO, iPlan
2012 — Ann Drake, Chairman & CEO, DSC Logistics
2011 — Dr. James R. Stock, Frank Harvey Endowed Professor of Marketing, University of South Florida
2010 — Charles L. Taylor, Founder & Principal, Awake! Consulting
2009 — Joel L. Sutherland, Managing Director, Center for Value Chain Research, Lehigh University
2008 — Arthur Mesher, CEO, The Descartes Systems Group Inc.
2007 — Thomas W. Speh, Distinguished Professor of Distribution, Miami University
2006 — Herbert S. Shear, CEO, GENCO
2005 — Martin G. Christopher, Professor of Marketing & Logistics, Cranfield University (UK)
2004 — John Thomas Mentzer, Distinguished Professor of Logistics, University of Tennessee
2003 — H. Lee Scott, Jr., Chairman, Wal-Mart Corporation
2002 — Donald J. Schneider, Chairman, Schneider Logistics, Inc.
2001 — Ralph W. Drayer, VP Customer Service & Logistics, Procter & Gamble
1999 — Richard F. Powers, President, Insight, Inc.
1998 — William C. Copacino, Managing Partner, Andersen Consulting Strategic Services
1997 — Yossi Sheffi, Professor, MIT
1996 — Larry S. Mulkey, President, Ryder Integrated Logistics
1995 — Joseph C. Andraski, VP Integrated Logistics, Nabisco Inc.
1994 — Roger W. Carlson, EVP, Exel Logistics–North America
1993 — C. John Langley, John H. Dove Distinguished Professor, University of Tennessee
1992 — Howard S. Gochberg, Vice President (retired), Land O’Lakes, Inc.
1991 — John J. Coyle, Exec. Director, Center for Logistics Research, Penn State University
1990 — Roger W. Kallock, Chairman, Cleveland Consulting Associates
1989 — Frederick W. Smith, CEO/Chairman, Federal Express Corporation
1988 — George A. Gecowets, Executive Vice President, Council of Logistics Management
1987 — Ronald E. Seger, Vice President, A.T. Kearney, Inc.
1986 — Douglas M. Lambert, Professor of Marketing, University of South Florida
1985 — Arthur W. Todd, Director of Purchasing, Lincoln Electric Company
1984 — Bob Packwood, United States Senate
1983 — Bernard J. Hale, Vice President, Distribution Services, Bergen Brunswig Corporation
1982 — Jerome D. Krassenstein, Vice President, Chessie System
1981 — Robert V. Delaney, Manager of Distribution, International Paper Company
1980 — Clifford F. Lynch, VP of Distribution, Quaker Oats Company
1979 — Wendell M. Stewart, Vice President, A.T. Kearney, Inc.
1978 — Robert J. Franco, Vice Chairman, Spector Industries
1977 — Kenneth B. Ackerman, Chairman, Distribution Centers, Inc.
1976 — Bernard J. LaLonde, Professor of Marketing & Logistics, The Ohio State University
1975 — Burr W. Hupp, Managing Director, Drake Sheahan/Stewart Dougall
1974 — James L. Heskett, Professor of Business Logistics, Harvard University
1973 — Robert E. Schellberg, VP Distribution, Eastman Kodak Company
1972 — Warren Blanding, EVP, Marketing Publications, Inc.
1971 — Mark Egan, Tourism Advisor for Turkey
1970 — Gayton E. Germane, Professor of Logistics, Stanford University
1969 — Bruce J. Riggs, General Traffic Manager, Norton Company
1968 — Edward W. Smykay, Professor, Michigan State University
1967 — E. Grosvenor Plowman, VP Traffic, US Steel
1966 — Donald J. Bowersox, VP/General Manager, E.F. MacDonald Stamp Company
1965 — Will Gribble, Director, Customer Service, Pillsbury Company