Freight’s Global 100 Monica Ribar CEO, Panalpina


shock 2006 resignation of previous CEO Bruno Sidler, who departed after it was discovered one of his air freight staff had been falsifying company information. Ribar was one of the chief architects of the Swiss


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forwarders 2005 IPO, and was appointed to the board on the back of the strong relationships she had built


or over 10 years Monika Robar has had a place on the executive board of Panalpina, and was previously chief financial officer before the


up with the company’s major investors during that process. She has faced a variety of challenges since arriving at


the top, chiefly recessionary, although the company was also rocked in 2008 by a bribery scandal involving its Nigerian subsidiary. This year it boldly decided to focus on high-value


customers and move away from low-value high-volume customers, a strategy that has seen it restore profitability but lose market share.


Matthew Rose Chairman, President & CEO, Burlington Northern Santa Fe


acquisition that US financier Warren Buffet ever undertook – the $44bn purchase of Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad, which has had Rose as its head since 2002. That Buffet subsequently said in the letter to


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shareholders of his Berkshire Hathaway fund, which bought BNSF, how pleased he was with the buy –


Peter Rose Chairman & CEO, Expeditors International S


eattle-based Expeditors has consistently delivered such phenomenal multiples that it is almost impossible to leave it off this list, and the


company is almost entirely the product of one man – Peter Rose. The company has become a byword for investing in


its employees, and its performance pre-, during and post- recession has been impressive, given that its principal strategy in dealing with the recession after


the Lehman collapse was a “no redundancies” policy. It stuck to its guns during the worst that 2009


could throw at it and when the sudden upturn came at the end of that year, it was in the perfect condition to take advantage of the recovery. In the most recent third-quarter results announced


at the beginning of November, Rose said that the lessons learned during 2009 would be remembered as it moved into the uncertainties of 2012.


t the beginning of 2010, while the juddering shock of the recession was fresh in the mind, Matthew Rose managed to complete the largest


claiming that it had pushed up Berkshire Hathaway’s earnings by 40% – says much about Rose’s skills. Container traffic accounts for 31% of the


company’s volumes, and while the continuing consumer weakness will cause concern, it also sees the expansion of the Panama Canal as a direct threat with the emergence of more all-water services from Asia to the US East Coast, which will see the company’s customers – container shipping lines – become its competitors.


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