Outgoing Amazon worldwide consumer chief Dave Clark is joining supply chain unicorn Flexport as co-CEO. Grant HindsleyFormer Amazon consumer chief Dave Clark has a new job: co-CEO, and eventually sole CEO, of $8 billion-valued supply chain software startup Flexport. After discussions with Clark, Petersen says the decision to phase the veteran executive into running all of Flexport, and not just some teams, was his own decision. “Mine are much more creative, zero-to-one founder time, and Dave is the supreme executor and a legend in the supply chain world.”Ryan Petersen on the cover of Forbes in January 2022. “If in five years, when you say, ‘What’s the most important company in global supply chain, and in technology across global supply chain,’ if Flexport isn’t the answer, then we messed this up,” says Clark (using a more colorful word than “mess”).

Source: Forbes June 08, 2022 18:04 UTC