Odyssey Logistics names CCO
Odyssey Logistics, a provider of multimodal logistics solutions, has appointed Omar Shamsie to chief commercial officer. He will focus on driving strategic sales growth, vertical market development and cross-sell initiatives to deepen customer relationships and drive new business.
Before joining Odyssey, Shamsie worked at Maersk, an integrated logistics company. Rising through the ranks over three decades of service, he held several senior international leadership positions in ten different countries. Most recently, he was Maersk’s area managing director for Canada and prior to that president of Maersk Line’s North America region based in New Jersey.
Shamsie attended the advanced management programme at Duke University in North Carolina and the executive leadership programmme (SEP) at Stanford University in California. (cj)