Jessica Anderson

Senior Bids and Proposal Manager

Agility Project Logistics

John Amos

Consultant

Amos Logistics

San Francisco, California, USA

John Amos is an international logistics and transportation consultant specializing in issues related to planning, operations and regulatory issues. His experience encompasses the fields of ocean, air and surface transportation. For more than 40 years he held international and North American positions in the fields of logistics, procurement and construction management. Amos was employed by Bechtel Corp. for more than 26 years and in his last position was global head of transportation and logistics functions. After retiring from Bechtel he became North American Director of Business Development for Danzas Corp. He formed Amos Logistics Consulting in 2001.
 

Dominic Sun

Director, Trade Development

Port Houston

Leslie Meredith

Marketing & Media Director

Breakbulk Events & Media

As the marketing and media director for Breakbulk, Leslie brings more than 20 years of experience to the job having run marketing for several notable publications, including Sunset Magazine. She created the social media presence and managed the writers for a New York-based internet company whose combined properties tallied millions of pageviews per month.  

Her official Breakbulk career started as a side hustle when she became the news writer for the company, but she grew up immersed in the project logistics world thanks to her father, John Amos who was head of logistics at Bechtel Corp. When a marketing position became available, she jumped at the opportunity to make a bigger contribution to Breakbulk Events & Media.  

Today, her innovations include Breakbulk Studios, Breakbulk on the Rise, Breakbulk Veterans and Women in Breakbulk, a cause she is passionate about. Leslie is Breakbulk’s lead interviewer whose skills in this area became even more valuable during the pandemic. She is known throughout the industry as an interviewer who is knowledgeable about the industry, and most important, brings out her guests’ most relevant insights and information. 

Leslie is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles and now resides in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Phillip Brown

Vice President-Projects

SAL-Heavylift Inc.

Phillip Brown is the Vice President, Projects at SAL Heavy Lift, Inc. In this role, he supports the global SAL Heavy Lift offices in support of Marine Projects.

Mr. Brown started his career in the maritime industry in 2008 with a multi-purpose carrier in Houston and worked for Fluor from 2012 until 2019 where his most recent role was Global Chartering Manager. He has overseen ocean transportation and material movements for projects around the globe, including extensive work in Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

Mr. Brown holds a bachelor's degree in Maritime Administration from Texas A&M University at Galveston and is an Association of Ship Brokers and Agents (ASBA)-Certified Shipbroker and Chartered Vessel Operator. Mr. Brown is also on the Board of Directors for the Houston Maritime Arbitrators Association (HMAA) where he is involved with planning of annual fundraising events in support of the HMAA scholarship fund.

Ed Bastian

Global Sales Director

BBC Chartering USA

Edwin Bastian joined BBC Chartering  in August 0f 2007. He currently serves as Global Sales Director and leads the strategic sales initiative for the largest global breakbulk and project chartering fleet in the world.  

During Ed’s 40 year career, he has held management positions with following companies, NYK North America, Evergreen Marine, Port of Long Beach, Jones Stevedoring and Nautilus Leasing, UBS and Morgan Stanley.

Ed is an active member of various industry organizations including International Transportation Management Association of Houston, Railway Industrial Clearance Association, Editorial Advisory Board for Breakbulk Magazine, Breakbulk Americas Program Advisory Board and serves on the board of Maritime Workers Emergency Medical Fund, a Texas 501©(3). Ed also is frequently invited as a guest speaker and panelist at trade luncheons and events both inside and outside the Houston area.
 

Marco Poisler

COO – Global Energy & Capital Projects

UTC Overseas

Houston, Texas, USA

Marco Poisler heads UTC’s project team and is member of UTC’s global executive management team and the company’s board of directors. He is responsible for establishing strategic energy and oil and gas offices in Russia and CIS, Italy, Venezuela, and the Caspian and for numerous industrial projects in Brazil, Asia, and Africa. Originally from New Jersey, Poisler attended the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and completed a master’s degree in transportation at the State University of New York’s Maritime College. He studied law at the University of São Paulo and is finishing his LLM with Lloyds Maritime Academy. In the last 20 years, he has worked with major international project forwarders, managing turnkey deliveries of heavy lift cargoes worldwide. He is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish and has a working knowledge of Ukrainian.
 
UTC Overseas specializes in global logistics solutions for complex turnkey projects worldwide. It operates 54 offices in 27 countries with a staff of over 600 highly trained and experienced professionals. With origins dating back to 1926, UTC is today an industry leader in a wide range of sectors including: power generation and distribution, oil and gas, cement, beverage can production and food processing, mining, heavy equipment, petrochemicals and pharmaceuticals, industrial plant construction and modernization, cement plants and vessel chartering and vessel contracting services.
 

Leandro Brusque

Supply Chain Manager, Subsea Construction

Ocyan Oil & Gas

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

At Ocyan, Leandro Brusque focuses on the design and development of new subsea projects for deep waters. He has spent his 25+ year career in supply chain and logistics management within the oil and gas industry, working with ship and project owners as well as freight forwarders on projects totaling more than $1 billion USD. He has applied his expertise to complex projects across the Americas, Europe and Africa, including Acergy’s Mexilhão and Subsea 7’s Sapinhoa – Lula. A graduate of the Brazilian Merchant Marine Academy, he has also pursued studies in foreign trade and business logistics.
 
Ocyan is a company with a sustainable attitude and knowledge to provide solutions for the upstream offshore oil and gas industry in Brazil and abroad. Its main values are the security of its employees and the operation, the partnership of trust with the clients, and the commitment to ethics and transparency. Ocyan provides offshore maintenance services, develops SURF projects, and offers manufacturing and installation of subsea hardware. The company fleet comprises six drilling units, two pipe laying support vessels and two floating, production, storage and offloading vessels, notably the FPSO Pioneiro de Libra (Libra Pioneer).
 

Dennis Devlin Senior Director – Special Project Logistics, North America. Senior Director – Special Project Logistics, North America. Senior Director – Special Project Logistics, North America

Senior Director – Special Project Logistics, North America. Senior Director – Special Project Logistics, North America. Senior Director – Special Project Logistics, North America

Maersk, Inc.

Houston, Texas USA

Dennis Devlin has spent his career in international project transportation and logistics. He previously worked in senior positions with DB Schenker, Panalpina, and BDP International, where he held positions in Houston, Philadelphia and Shanghai. While in Shanghai, Devlin was Vice Chairman of the AmCham Logistics Committee for the Shanghai American Chamber of Commerce. He has been a member of the Exporters Competitive Maritime Council and serves on the Editorial Board of Breakbulk Magazine. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, Devlin graduated with honors from Virginia Commonwealth University, with degrees in economics and political science. He also studied in Glasgow, Paris, Taipei, Shanghai and Bogota.

Stephen Spoljaric

Corporate Manager of Global Logistics

Bechtel Corporation

Houston, Texas, USA

Stephen “Spo” Spoljaric was recently appointed the Corporate Manager of Global Logistics for Bechtel. His leadership and forward-thinking ideas will focus on collaboration and an Engineered Logistics™ approach to increasing predictability and improving safety. Before his current posting, Spoljaric completed a role as an area operations manager on a petro-chemicals giga-project in Pennsylvania. There, he was responsible for managing the union labor to support material distribution in support of construction. Spoljaric holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Fordham University and a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Clemson University. He has been actively engaged on practicum projects with several university students.
 
Bechtel is one of the world’s most respected global engineering, construction and project management companies, and a cornerstone of innovation in the industry. Bechtel delivers landmark projects—the modern marvels of the world—that foster sustainable progress and grow economies. Since 1898, Bechtel has completed more than 25,000 extraordinary projects—many first-of-a-kind—in 160 countries on all seven continents serving energy, defense, environmental cleanup, mining and metals, oil, gas and chemicals, infrastructure and transportation, and telecommunications industries. Bechtel is a family company grounded in hard work, integrity and trust; values integral to all Bechtel does.
 

Ed Bastian

Global Sales Director

BBC Chartering USA

Edwin Bastian joined BBC Chartering  in August 0f 2007. He currently serves as Global Sales Director and leads the strategic sales initiative for the largest global breakbulk and project chartering fleet in the world.  

During Ed’s 40 year career, he has held management positions with following companies, NYK North America, Evergreen Marine, Port of Long Beach, Jones Stevedoring and Nautilus Leasing, UBS and Morgan Stanley.

Ed is an active member of various industry organizations including International Transportation Management Association of Houston, Railway Industrial Clearance Association, Editorial Advisory Board for Breakbulk Magazine, Breakbulk Americas Program Advisory Board and serves on the board of Maritime Workers Emergency Medical Fund, a Texas 501©(3). Ed also is frequently invited as a guest speaker and panelist at trade luncheons and events both inside and outside the Houston area.
 

John Amos

Consultant

Amos Logistics

San Francisco, California, USA

John Amos is an international logistics and transportation consultant specializing in issues related to planning, operations and regulatory issues. His experience encompasses the fields of ocean, air and surface transportation. For more than 40 years he held international and North American positions in the fields of logistics, procurement and construction management. Amos was employed by Bechtel Corp. for more than 26 years and in his last position was global head of transportation and logistics functions. After retiring from Bechtel he became North American Director of Business Development for Danzas Corp. He formed Amos Logistics Consulting in 2001.
 

Marco Poisler

COO – Global Energy & Capital Projects

UTC Overseas

Houston, Texas, USA

Marco Poisler heads UTC’s project team and is member of UTC’s global executive management team and the company’s board of directors. He is responsible for establishing strategic energy and oil and gas offices in Russia and CIS, Italy, Venezuela, and the Caspian and for numerous industrial projects in Brazil, Asia, and Africa. Originally from New Jersey, Poisler attended the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and completed a master’s degree in transportation at the State University of New York’s Maritime College. He studied law at the University of São Paulo and is finishing his LLM with Lloyds Maritime Academy. In the last 20 years, he has worked with major international project forwarders, managing turnkey deliveries of heavy lift cargoes worldwide. He is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish and has a working knowledge of Ukrainian.
 
UTC Overseas specializes in global logistics solutions for complex turnkey projects worldwide. It operates 54 offices in 27 countries with a staff of over 600 highly trained and experienced professionals. With origins dating back to 1926, UTC is today an industry leader in a wide range of sectors including: power generation and distribution, oil and gas, cement, beverage can production and food processing, mining, heavy equipment, petrochemicals and pharmaceuticals, industrial plant construction and modernization, cement plants and vessel chartering and vessel contracting services.
 

Dennis Devlin Senior Director – Special Project Logistics, North America. Senior Director – Special Project Logistics, North America. Senior Director – Special Project Logistics, North America

Senior Director – Special Project Logistics, North America. Senior Director – Special Project Logistics, North America. Senior Director – Special Project Logistics, North America

Maersk, Inc.

Houston, Texas USA

Dennis Devlin has spent his career in international project transportation and logistics. He previously worked in senior positions with DB Schenker, Panalpina, and BDP International, where he held positions in Houston, Philadelphia and Shanghai. While in Shanghai, Devlin was Vice Chairman of the AmCham Logistics Committee for the Shanghai American Chamber of Commerce. He has been a member of the Exporters Competitive Maritime Council and serves on the Editorial Board of Breakbulk Magazine. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, Devlin graduated with honors from Virginia Commonwealth University, with degrees in economics and political science. He also studied in Glasgow, Paris, Taipei, Shanghai and Bogota.

Leslie Meredith

Marketing & Media Director

Breakbulk Events & Media

As the marketing and media director for Breakbulk, Leslie brings more than 20 years of experience to the job having run marketing for several notable publications, including Sunset Magazine. She created the social media presence and managed the writers for a New York-based internet company whose combined properties tallied millions of pageviews per month.  

Her official Breakbulk career started as a side hustle when she became the news writer for the company, but she grew up immersed in the project logistics world thanks to her father, John Amos who was head of logistics at Bechtel Corp. When a marketing position became available, she jumped at the opportunity to make a bigger contribution to Breakbulk Events & Media.  

Today, her innovations include Breakbulk Studios, Breakbulk on the Rise, Breakbulk Veterans and Women in Breakbulk, a cause she is passionate about. Leslie is Breakbulk’s lead interviewer whose skills in this area became even more valuable during the pandemic. She is known throughout the industry as an interviewer who is knowledgeable about the industry, and most important, brings out her guests’ most relevant insights and information. 

Leslie is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles and now resides in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Phillip Brown

Vice President-Projects

SAL-Heavylift Inc.

Phillip Brown is the Vice President, Projects at SAL Heavy Lift, Inc. In this role, he supports the global SAL Heavy Lift offices in support of Marine Projects.

Mr. Brown started his career in the maritime industry in 2008 with a multi-purpose carrier in Houston and worked for Fluor from 2012 until 2019 where his most recent role was Global Chartering Manager. He has overseen ocean transportation and material movements for projects around the globe, including extensive work in Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

Mr. Brown holds a bachelor's degree in Maritime Administration from Texas A&M University at Galveston and is an Association of Ship Brokers and Agents (ASBA)-Certified Shipbroker and Chartered Vessel Operator. Mr. Brown is also on the Board of Directors for the Houston Maritime Arbitrators Association (HMAA) where he is involved with planning of annual fundraising events in support of the HMAA scholarship fund.

Jessica Anderson

Senior Bids and Proposal Manager

Agility Project Logistics

Stephen Spoljaric

Corporate Manager of Global Logistics

Bechtel Corporation

Houston, Texas, USA

Stephen “Spo” Spoljaric was recently appointed the Corporate Manager of Global Logistics for Bechtel. His leadership and forward-thinking ideas will focus on collaboration and an Engineered Logistics™ approach to increasing predictability and improving safety. Before his current posting, Spoljaric completed a role as an area operations manager on a petro-chemicals giga-project in Pennsylvania. There, he was responsible for managing the union labor to support material distribution in support of construction. Spoljaric holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Fordham University and a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Clemson University. He has been actively engaged on practicum projects with several university students.
 
Bechtel is one of the world’s most respected global engineering, construction and project management companies, and a cornerstone of innovation in the industry. Bechtel delivers landmark projects—the modern marvels of the world—that foster sustainable progress and grow economies. Since 1898, Bechtel has completed more than 25,000 extraordinary projects—many first-of-a-kind—in 160 countries on all seven continents serving energy, defense, environmental cleanup, mining and metals, oil, gas and chemicals, infrastructure and transportation, and telecommunications industries. Bechtel is a family company grounded in hard work, integrity and trust; values integral to all Bechtel does.
 

Leandro Brusque

Supply Chain Manager, Subsea Construction

Ocyan Oil & Gas

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

At Ocyan, Leandro Brusque focuses on the design and development of new subsea projects for deep waters. He has spent his 25+ year career in supply chain and logistics management within the oil and gas industry, working with ship and project owners as well as freight forwarders on projects totaling more than $1 billion USD. He has applied his expertise to complex projects across the Americas, Europe and Africa, including Acergy’s Mexilhão and Subsea 7’s Sapinhoa – Lula. A graduate of the Brazilian Merchant Marine Academy, he has also pursued studies in foreign trade and business logistics.
 
Ocyan is a company with a sustainable attitude and knowledge to provide solutions for the upstream offshore oil and gas industry in Brazil and abroad. Its main values are the security of its employees and the operation, the partnership of trust with the clients, and the commitment to ethics and transparency. Ocyan provides offshore maintenance services, develops SURF projects, and offers manufacturing and installation of subsea hardware. The company fleet comprises six drilling units, two pipe laying support vessels and two floating, production, storage and offloading vessels, notably the FPSO Pioneiro de Libra (Libra Pioneer).
 

Dominic Sun

Director, Trade Development

Port Houston