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Shippeo, a global leader in real-time multimodal transportation visibility (RTTV), today announced the appointment of two global Go-To-Market experts to lead its revenue and marketing strategy.
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- Brandon Oliveri-O’Connor is named Shippeo’s CRO (Chief Revenue Officer)
- Ben Douglass is named Shippeo’s CMO (Chief Marketing Officer)
Both join Shippeo’s Executive Committee, effective as of today.
Prior to joining Shippeo, Oliveri-O’Connor and Douglass worked together at Procore, a SaaS platform for the construction industry. They notably drove the US-based platform’s growth throughout the UK, Europe and Middle East, and performed various revenue and marketing leadership roles in the company as it grew from $50m to $1bn ARR globally.
“I’m incredibly excited to join Shippeo during this pivotal moment in its growth. Ben and I have extensive experience with complex industries, understanding their unique challenges, and then helping to solve them with technology. I am looking forward to working with Shippeo’s customers to provide them with the real-time transportation visibility they need to manage the risks and uncertainty they are faced with daily” - Brandon Oliveri-O’Connor, CRO, Shippeo
“Brandon and I love working with people that are passionate about having a positive impact on their customers’ lives. That definitely applies to Shippeo, whose clients appreciate that market-leading visibility is as much down to the Shippians that support them, as it is to the platform itself. I am excited to join the team and to help Shippeo develop even further the vital work they do for people in the global supply chain sector” - Ben Douglass, CMO, Shippeo.
“Shippeo has come a long way since we were founded eleven years ago. Today, we’re well established as the world’s most recommended RTTV platform. With Ben and Brandon’s help, we look forward to bringing even more value to our existing and new clients, as we continue to build antifragile and sustainable supply chains for all” - Lucien Besse, COO and Co-Founder, Shippeo.
About Shippeo
Shippeo is a global leader in real-time multimodal transportation visibility, enabling leading shippers and logistics service providers to build more resilient, sustainable, and customer-centric supply chains. By enabling Transport Process Automation™, Shippeo streamlines transportation processes, optimizes logistics costs, and enhances customer experience. Its network integrates with over 228,000 carriers and 1,100 TMS, telematics and ELD systems, offering instant access to real-time tracking for all transport modes via an intuitive platform. A machine learning algorithm ensures unmatched shipment ETA accuracy, allowing businesses to anticipate issues, proactively manage exceptions, collaborate efficiently, and reduce transport-related greenhouse gas emissions. Hundreds of customers, including global brands such as Ahold Delhaize, AkzoNobel, Barilla, Coca-Cola HBC, Heineken, Kuehne+Nagel, L’Oréal, LVMH, Renault Group, and Saint-Gobain, trust Shippeo to track more than 90 million shipments annually across 150 countries. For more information, visit www.shippeo.com.
Brandon Oliveri-O’Connor is named Shippeo’s CRO (Chief Revenue Officer); Ben Douglass is named Shippeo’s CMO (Chief Marketing Officer)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump abruptly changed his tone Wednesday about his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, saying they had exchanged a friendly phone call and he’d even invited the leader of the South American country to the White House.
“It was a Great Honor to speak with the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, who called to explain the situation of drugs and other disagreements that we have had,” Trump posted on his social media site. “I appreciated his call and tone, and look forward to meeting him in the near future.”
He wrote that the upcoming meeting would take place at the White House.
That came mere days after Trump said in the wake of the U.S. operation to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro over the weekend that “Colombia is very sick too” and accused Petro of ”making cocaine and selling it to the United States."
In comments to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday, Trump added of Petro, “He’s not going to be doing it very long, let me tell you.” Asked whether U.S. intervention was possible, Trump responded, ”Sounds good to me.”
Later Wednesday, addressing thousands of protesters that he had mobilized to rally against U.S. military threats, Petro said he had spoken with Trump for roughly one hour.
“I talked about two things: Venezuela and the issue of drug trafficking,” he told the crowd in downtown Bogotá, where demonstrators had just minutes earlier chanted slogans against the United States at Petro’s behest.
Petro explained to the audience that Colombian politicians allegedly linked to narco-trafficking misled the U.S. president about Petro’s record to turn Trump against him.
“Those (people) are responsible for this crisis — let’s call it diplomatic for now, verbal for now — that has erupted between the U.S. and Colombia,” he said.
Trump now suddenly warming to Petro is especially surprising since Colombia’s president called the U.S. operation in Venezuela an “abhorrent” violation of Latin American sovereignty. He also suggested it was committed by “enslavers” and constituted a “spectacle of death” comparable to Nazi Germany’s 1937 carpet bombing of Guernica, Spain.
Colombia has long been among America’s staunchest Latin American allies, a pillar of Washington’s counternarcotics strategy abroad. For three decades, the U.S. has worked closely with Colombia, the world’s largest producer of cocaine, to arrest drug traffickers, fend off rebel groups and boost economic development in rural areas.
Still, before Trump's conciliatory post, tensions had been rising between the U.S. and Colombia for months.
The Trump administration imposed sanctions in October on Petro, his family and a member of his government over accusations of involvement in the global drug trade. Colombia is considered the epicenter of the world’s cocaine trade.
Trump began his monthslong pressure campaign on Maduro by ordering dozens of lethal strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats launched from Venezuela in the Caribbean. He eventually expanded the operations to also target suspected vessels in the eastern Pacific that came from Colombia.
The U.S. in September added Colombia, the top recipient of American assistance in the region, to a list of nations failing to cooperate in the drug war for the first time in almost 30 years. The designation led to a slashing of U.S. assistance to the country.
“He has cocaine mills and cocaine factories," Trump said of Petro on Sunday. "He’s not going to be doing it.”
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Associated Press writer Isabel DeBre in Buenos Aires, Argentina, contributed to this report.
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This story has been updated to correct the spelling of the Colombian president's name.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro addresses supporters in a rally he called to protest comments by U.S. President Donald Trump, in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga)
Supporters of Colombian President Gustavo Petro attend a rally he called to protest comments by U.S. President Donald Trump, in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga)
