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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.

Dominic Sun

Director, Trade Development Port Houston

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.
 

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.
 

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).
 

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.