Senior Management

Brad McEachern - President and Chief Operating Officer

Brad McEachern is currently President and Chief Operating Officer of Global Net Logistics, LLC in Flower Mound, Texas and is one of the principal partners of the company. He has over 28 years of transportation industry experience. Prior to Global Net Logistics acquiring the assets and goodwill of FFE Logistics, Brad was serving as Vice President and General Manager for FFE Logistics. Brad joined FFE Logistics in 2007 as Vice President of Sales before becoming the Vice President and General Manager in 2009.

Prior to joining FFE, Brad served as Vice President of Sales for Blue Wing Global Logistics and later became Vice President and General Manager of Blue Wing. Brad started his transportation career with the CF / Con-way companies and spent 20 years there in a variety of management positions with increasing levels of responsibility.

Brad received his BS from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1985.

John T. Hickerson - Chief Executive Officer

John T. Hickerson is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Global Net Logistics in Flower Mound, Texas and is a principal partner of the company. Global Net was formed from the acquisition of FFE Logistics in March of 2014. John was formerly Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for FFE Transportation Services, as well as its’ parent company Frozen Food Express Industries, Inc., and was a board member of the company prior to it being sold to private investors in August of 2013. He has 40 years of experience in the transportation industry.

Prior to joining FFE, John served as Chairman and CEO of Pacer Transport, a division of Pacer International and now a part of XPO. He was Vice President of Domestic Intermodal at BNSF Railway, where he was directly responsible for all carrier partnerships with all trucking companies moving intermodally on the railroad. He spent 22 years in the Con-way family of companies and was the founding President of Con-way Southern Express, before leaving to go to Roadway Corporation as President of Roadway’s Regional Carrier Group.

John is a past State Vice President of Texas in the American Trucking Association. He is a Past Chairman of the Texas Trucking Association (TXTA) and is currently on the Executive Advisory Board there. He is also a past board member of the Texas Chamber of Commerce.

He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Centenary College. He received post graduate education thru the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and is a graduate of Columbia University Business School’s Senior Executive Program.