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CHEP, a Brambles company and global leader in supply chain solutions, continues to reinforce its customer-focused efforts by appointing experienced internal talent to key executive positions.
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Chad Connors, Vice President, Operations, North America, CHEP U.S. (Photo: Business Wire)
Frank Bozzo, Senior Vice President & General Manager, CHEP Canada and Pallecon North America & Europe (Photo: Business Wire)
David Cuenca, CEO, CHEP North America (Photo: Business Wire)
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In July 2024, David Cuenca, formerly the CEO of CHEP Europe, transitioned to the role of CEO of CHEP North America. Since then, the company made additional appointments, including Frank Bozzo as Senior Vice President & General Manager of CHEP Canada and Pallecon North America & Europe, and Chad Connors as Vice President of Operations for the North Region, CHEP U.S.
These strategic appointments underscore the company’s dedication to leveraging seasoned leadership to enhance its operations to best serve its customers. As CHEP continues to innovate and invest in its infrastructure, these leaders will play a crucial role in ensuring the seamless delivery of state-of-the-art supply chain solutions, fostering a customer-centric culture that prioritizes resiliency and sustainability.
Manufacturers and retailers will benefit from each leader’s wealth of supply chain talent and knowledge, which spans numerous industries and businesses of all sizes regionally and globally.
These three leadership appointments support CHEP in delivering quality service and solutions to the approximately 300,000 partners it serves worldwide. The continuity of its executive team also reflects the company’s longstanding position as an industry leader and trusted partner for more than 60 years.
About CHEP
CHEP is a global leader in supply chain solutions. Together with producers, manufacturers, retailers and logistics partners, CHEP advances the smart and sustainable movement of goods across more than 60 countries.
Powered by its share, repair and reuse network of pallets, crates and containers, CHEP helps businesses optimize their supply chains to reduce costs and minimize the environmental impact of their operations. CHEP pairs its leadership in circularity, which helps tackle emissions, waste and single-use packaging, with a focus on resilience, to build future-ready supply networks through data, scale and collaboration.
With its operational excellence trusted by the world’s top brands, CHEP primarily serves customers in the consumer staples (e.g. dry food, grocery, household products, health and personal care, fresh produce and beverage), retail, automotive and general manufacturing industries. A part of the Brambles Group, CHEP manages ~347 million pallets and containers through a network of 750+ service centers, employing approximately 11,000 people worldwide with its largest operations in North America and Europe.
For more information, visit www.chep.com.
Chad Connors, Vice President, Operations, North America, CHEP U.S. (Photo: Business Wire)
Frank Bozzo, Senior Vice President & General Manager, CHEP Canada and Pallecon North America & Europe (Photo: Business Wire)
David Cuenca, CEO, CHEP North America (Photo: Business Wire)
ST. LOUIS (AP) — World champions Ilia Malinin and the ice dance duo of Madison Chock and Evan Bates will anchor one of the strongest U.S. Figure Skating teams in history when they head to Italy for the Milan Cortina Olympics in less than a month.
Malinin, fresh off his fourth straight national title, will be the prohibitive favorite to follow in the footsteps of Nathan Chen by delivering another men's gold medal for the American squad when he steps on the ice at the Milano Ice Skating Arena.
Chock and Bates, who won their record-setting seventh U.S. title Saturday night, also will be among the Olympic favorites, as will world champion Alysa Liu and women's teammate Amber Glenn, fresh off her third consecutive national title.
U.S. Figure Skating announced its full squad of 16 athletes for the Winter Games during a made-for-TV celebration Sunday.
"I'm just so excited for the Olympic spirit, the Olympic environment," Malinin said. “Hopefully go for that Olympic gold.”
Malinin will be joined on the men's side by Andrew Torgashev, the all-or-nothing 24-year-old from Coral Springs, Florida, and Maxim Naumov, the 24-year-old from Simsbury, Connecticut, who fulfilled the hopes of his late parents by making the Olympic team.
Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova were returning from a talent camp in Kansas when their American Airlines flight collided with a military helicopter and crashed into the icy Potomac River in January 2025. One of the last conversations they had with their son was about what it would take for him to follow in their footsteps by becoming an Olympian.
“We absolutely did it,” Naumov said. “Every day, year after year, we talked about the Olympics. It means so much in our family. It's what I've been thinking about since I was 5 years old, before I even know what to think. I can't put this into words.”
Chock and Bates helped the Americans win team gold at the Beijing Games four years ago, but they finished fourth — one spot out of the medals — in the ice dance competition. They have hardly finished anywhere but first in the years since, winning three consecutive world championships and the gold medal at three straight Grand Prix Finals.
U.S. silver medalists Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik also made the dance team, as did the Canadian-born Christina Carreira, who became eligible for the Olympics in November when her American citizenship came through, and Anthony Ponomarenko.
Liu was picked for her second Olympic team after briefly retiring following the Beijing Games. She had been burned out by years of practice and competing, but stepping away seemed to rejuvenate the 20-year-old from Clovis, California, and she returned to win the first world title by an American since Kimmie Meissner stood atop the podium two decades ago.
Now, the avant-garde Liu will be trying to help the U.S. win its first women's medal since Sasha Cohen in Turin in 2006, and perhaps the first gold medal since Sarah Hughes triumphed four years earlier at the Salt Lake City Games.
Her biggest competition, besides a powerful Japanese contingent, could come from her own teammates: Glenn, a first-time Olympian, has been nearly unbeatable the past two years, while 18-year-old Isabeau Levito is a former world silver medalist.
"This was my goal and my dream and it just feels so special that it came true,” said Levito, whose mother is originally from Milan.
The two pairs spots went to Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea, the U.S. silver medalists, and the team of Emily Chan and Spencer Howe.
The top American pairs team, two-time reigning U.S. champions Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov, were hoping that the Finnish-born Efimova would get her citizenship approved in time to compete in Italy. But despite efforts by the Skating Club of Boston, where they train, and the help of their U.S. senators, she did not receive her passport by the selection deadline.
“The importance and magnitude of selecting an Olympic team is one of the most important milestones in an athlete's life,” U.S. Figure Skating CEO Matt Farrell said, "and it has such an impact, and while there are sometimes rules, there is also a human element to this that we really have to take into account as we make decisions and what's best going forward from a selection process.
“Sometimes these aren't easy," Farrell said, “and this is not the fun part.”
The fun is just beginning, though, for the 16 athletes picked for the powerful American team.
AP Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics
Amber Glenn competes during the women's free skating competition at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Alysa Liu skates during the "Making Team USA" performance at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Maxim Naumov skates during the "Making Team USA" performance at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Madison Chock and Evan Bates skate during the "Making the Team" performance at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Gold medalist Ilia Malinin arrives for the metal ceremony after the men's free skate competition at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
