Advisory Board

Anthony Paoni

Chairman of the Board

Mr. Paoni was a faculty member of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management from 1996 to 2013. Professor Paoni taught graduate classes in Kellogg’s Full-Time Program, Part Time Program, Executive MBA Program and the International Executive MBA Program. He also managed the Kellogg Technology Speaker Series and co-author of two books entitled “Kellogg on Technology” and “TechVenture”. He is a former Partner and Vice Chairman of Diamond Technology and Management Consultants, Inc. (now part of PwC), and also served as the President of two wholly-owned U.S. subsidiaries of Ricardo Consulting, a U.K.-based international engineering consulting firm focused on computer based automotive powertrain design.

Before 1996, Mr. Paoni spent 28 years in the information technology industry, most recently as the Chief Executive Officer of Eolas Inc. He also served as Chief Operating Officer of Cross Access and as a member of the executive leadership team of several privately owned software development companies. Professor Paoni served as a Strategic Advisor to the US Navy for the CVX nuclear carrier project, and he was appointed as Technology Advisor to Freddie Mac; in addition, he was Chairman of the Advisory Board Elite Labor Services.

Mr. Paoni has served on the Board of Directors of the following publicly traded companies: US Freightways (NASDAQ: USFC), a $2.5B transportation and logistics corporation; CompuCom (NASDAQ: CMPC), a $2.9B technology hardware and services company and Telkonet (NASDAQ: TKOI), a venture capital-funded energy management company.

Chris Adderton

Senior Advisor

Chris brings more than 25 years of experience in consumer goods with expertise in organizational development, change management, technology implementation, sales, and operations planning and trade promotions management.

Chris has engaged in developing organizational capability, efficiency, and effectiveness. He has developed and implemented programs that improved productivity and resulted in improved financial performance. he has led several leading companies through effective and affordable transformation with a focus on improved customer satisfaction and profitability. He has managed a multimillion-dollar project transforming a customer service organization and implementing the SAP order to cash process.

Doug Laux

Lead Independent Director

Doug spent the first 20 years of his career with Ernst and Young, the last 9 as a partner in the Chicago office.  Doug has extensive experience with both public and private companies.  He has IPO experience as CFO/COO of Platinum Entertainment Inc., a NASDAQ listed music company he helped take public in 1996.  He has significant turn-around experience having been the CFO of several public and private companies, including ANC Rental Corporation the former $2.5 billion parent of Alamo and National Car Rental Companies.  He also served as the CFO of EaglePicher, a $900 million diversified manufacturing company, and as CFO of Remy International, a $1.3 Billion automotive supplier during their respective restructurings.  Doug has significant M&A, fund raising and SEC reporting and compliance experience.

Doug is currently CFO and COO of King-Devick Test, in Association with Mayo Clinic, a concussion sideline test which is also effective in reading remediation and other quality of life applications. he is also a director and head of audit committees of Sirva, Inc., the parent of Allied and NorthAmerican Van Lines and R.J. O’Brien and Associates, the oldest and largest independent futures brokerage and clearing firm in the U.S. Doug also serves as President of Freeport Securities Company, a family-owned oil and gas company and is a co-owner of Englewood Construction Company, a national retail builder.

Frank Clark

Senior Advisor

Bob Greenberg

Senior Advisor

Bob Greenberg is a global Information Technology executive with a strong public company Board, general management, and IT leadership expertise.  Bob is exceptionally skilled at affecting business models through the usage of advanced technologies and the concomitant organization dynamics.  He has demonstrated success structuring and resolving complex issues, ranging from organization creation to global business process re-engineering.  Areas of expertise include Leadership and Organization Development, IT Strategy and Execution, Outsourcing and Offshore Development, Business Process Re-engineering and the associated behavioral, procedural, and organizational changes necessary to execute large scale change. Prior to working with Liberty, Bob served as CIO for several global organizations, including AGCO Corporation, Nissan Americas, and Exxon Asia Pacific.  Bob has also held various corporate and advisory board positions at organizations including Active Power (Public Company BoD), eMids, Sutter Hill Ventures, Sierra Ventures, and the Nashville Technology Council.

Scott Ware

Senior Advisor

Scott Ware has more than 30 years of freight transportation experience, with proven expertise in line haul network optimization and planning.  He began his transportation career as a part-time dock worker in college and entered the Roadway management training program as an employee of their subsidiary Spartan Express. Since that time, he gained extensive experience in operations and sales management while holding various senior leadership positions in both corporate and field operations.

He served as President of Holland Inc, from May 2012 to Oct 2019.  Holland Inc. is a Yellow Corporation subsidiary highly recognized for delivering the most next-day less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation services within its geographical footprint, while annually recording one of the lowest claims ratios in the industry. Holland provides industry-leading, on-time speed, reliability, and quality for customers located in the central and southeastern United States and eastern Canada.

He was named Chief Network Officer (CNO) for YELLOW Corporation in 2019, where he was responsible for the alignment and coordination of all line-haul network operations across the four subsidiaries: Holland, Reddaway, New Penn, and YRC Freight.  His experience working with large-scale change management projects involving the full integration of operational networks has been well documented throughout his career.   He has been involved with multiple expansion and growth projects that include both organic as well as merger and acquisitions while directing the full integration of operations to provide a superior service product on a single platform.

He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, as well as completed the “Transportation Finance for Dedicated Fleets” certification course through Penn State University.  He is past Chairman of the “Communication and Image Committee” for the American Trucking Association and currently serves as a committee member.   He also serves on the ATA’s “Highway Policy Committee”, which is engaged in our nation’s highway infrastructure policies and programs.   He has completed professional and technical training programs including Statistical Process Improvement Training, NOVA & TOPS Sales Training.  In addition, he has significant experience in working with a nine-member Board of Directors for Yellow Corporation while delivering strategic business plans that support the organization’s performance, growth, and profitability.