My name is Samuel Israël, I am a 61 industry veteran with 35 years of global experience in Logistics and Supply Chain.
As a French/American citizen, I have acquired superior knowledge in the international trade environment having lived and worked in Europe, in the Americas and more recently in the Middle-East.
From 2000 to 2012 as Regional CEO for DHL Global Forwarding I have built the major logistics organization in Latin America with a revenue exceeding USD$1.5 billion in 2011. During this tenure, I have driven mergers and acquisitions, integrations and massive organic growth.
In 2013 I joined Damco, the logistic arm of the Maersk Group to first lead its Latin America region out of Panama and then the newly formed region of IMEA ( India,Middle East and Africa ) based out of Dubai .
I am now back in the Americas to leverage my experience and support trade and logistics corporations in building outstanding cross-cultural teams, plotting their future and expanding globally .
Fluent in Spanish, English and French, I hold a Master’s degree in Linguistics from the University of Provence in France and have completed the Senior Executive Program from the IESE Business School.
VP Global Business Development
2018-2019 — San Francisco
Multi-party Supply Chain Automation & Digitization
Founder & Managing Partner
2016-2017 — Miami
Management Consulting / Digital Supply Chain
CEO for IMEA (India, Middle East & Africa)
2014-2016 — Dubai
Financial Turnaround
Regional Footprint Optimization
Book of Business Streamline
Organizational Restructuring
CEO for Latin America
2013-2014 — Panama City
Established Regional Customer Service Center
Professionalized Product team and aligned to Corporate
Supported Customer acquisition
CEO Latin America
2000-2012 — Miami
Operations in 14 countries, with over 3,500 employees, net sales for over 1.5 B USD
Organic Top Line growth by 6X and EBITDA by 14X (2003-2011)
Consolidated the N#1 position in Air, Ocean& Project Logistics (2007-2011)
Led the due diligence, acquisition and integration of 5 AEI JV partners (2000-2003)
Managed the integration of Danzas and AEI both for own-subsidiaries as well as JV partners (2000).
DANZAS
Country Manager for DANZASMEX SA de CV
1999-2000 — Mexico City
Restructured Finance to align with corporate guidelines
Set-up a Trade Lane & Product organization
PANALPINA
General Manager for Ocean Freight
1996-1999 — Paris
Established a multi-national gateway with 65+ in and outbound routes.
Grew Ocean product from 25% to 41% of company bottom line
Branch Manager
1993–1995 — Paris
Restructured the Ocean product with dedicated Sales & Customer Service.
Optimized the Book of Business by focusing on profit and strategic fit
DANZAS
Ocean Freight Operations Manager
1991-1993 — Marne La Vallée
Implemented Marconnect Ocean product in France
Far-East Sales and Operations Manager
1987-1991 — Paris
Established regular EB and WB traffic routes & initiated a true carrier policy.
Africa Sales and Operations Manager
1984-1987 — Paris
Implemented OPS procedures& traffic routes with North & West Africa
Grew Trade Lane to South Africa
Latin America Operational & Sales trainee
1981-1983 — Paris
My name is David Bang, and I coach start-up investors, founders, and executives as Managing Partner at SIG.
I am an innovative and passionate executive, entrepreneur and thought leader with more than 20 years of global success across the logistic, forwarding, specialty courier, supply chain, healthcare and life sciences industries.
I am also a FAA Certified Small Unmanned Aircraft System (Drone) Pilot and a podcast host of Wonder of Logistics, recently named as a Top 30 podcasts for Transportation and Logistics Industry.
David held various leadership positions in the industry and co-founded LifeConEx in 2005, a joint venture between DHL and Lufthansa Airlines for bio-pharma international logistics.
In 2006 he became the CEO of the company and led its M&A activities with DHL in 2012 for substantial network expansion. During his tenure, he grew the start-up to a globally recognized premier provider of end-to-end temperature-sensitive logistics management solutions with nearly a half billion-dollar annual sales serving the healthcare industry with 100+ stations in 65 countries.
David also served as a Member of the Board of Rx-360, a patient safety and product integrity advocacy group for two years till the end of 2018. Since March 2019, he has been named as a Member of the Board at MaxQ Research, a leader in revolutionary shipping systems for sensitive biologics, became Managing Partner of SIG Consulting to coach start-up investors, founders and executives, and joined Hellmann Worldwide Logistics as Global VP Strategic Development effective July 2019.
Effective September 2020, David has started serving as a Member of the Board / Secretary of Rx-360’s newly established Education and Research Foundation 501 (c)(3) and as Vice Chair of Team Poseidon Steering Committee to promote integrated, standardized, and aggregated pharma/healthcare ocean-freight logistics worldwide.
Board Member
2019-Present — Oklahoma City, OK
Leading the strategic direction of MaxQ, a leader in shipping systems for sensitive biologics. Directing the executive team and the board on new market development, customer acquisition strategy and operations management. Guiding and establishing MaxQ’s alliance and partnership activities.
Managing Partner
2019-Present — Miami
Coaching start-up investors, founders and executives for fast tracks to MVP (Minimum Viable Product), Funding, Sales, Accelerated Growths, Employee Engagement, and M&A.
Board Member / Secretary
2020-Present — Philadelphia
Serving as a board member and secretary of this newly formed 501(c)(3) Rx-360 Education and Research Foundation to this international consortium addressing pharmaceutical and medical device supply chain security in relation to public health concerns and patient safety.
Global Vice President Strategic Development
2019-Present — Miami
Spearheading the global investment and transformation of Hellmann network for its industry vertical (e.g. healthcare) customers to significantly elevate Hellmann in terms of quality leadership, employee engagement, customer-centricity, innovation and market share.
Board Member
2016-2018 — Philadelphia
Serving as a board member at this international consortium addressing pharmaceutical and medical device supply chain security in relation to public health concerns and patient safety. These issues effect billions of people around the world on a daily basis.
CEO / Co-Founder LifeConEx, DHL Temperature Management Solutions
2007-2012 — Miami
Co-founded and grew the company from zero to a globally recognized premier provider of end-to-end temperature-sensitive logistics management solutions for medicinal products, from €10M to €400M+ with 600+ employees in 60 countries.
Head of Global Strategic Customers
2004-2005 — Miami
Led Global Strategic Customers group (15 FTEs) landing multiple global customer contracts with over 60% success ratio contributing €85M+ of new revenue annually.
Sr. Director Global Strategic Customers
2003-2004 — Chicago
Secured the company’s first significant new Global Strategic Customer contract (+10 million Euros) in the industry sector DHL was not a significant player yet at that time.
Director Global Strategic Customers
2002–2003 — Chicago
Created a high-performing team of 15 who delivered a web solution for over 80 large DHL customers that generated nearly €300M in revenue. Solution provided improved visibility and streamlined information exchanges among supply chain partners.
Manager Sales & Implementation
2000-2002 — Chicago
Engineered customer implementation and post implementation process to ensure the customer base (generating €100M+ in revenue) sustainability, providing customers with transparent and process driven implementation resulting overall cost reduction and performance improvement. Grew the team from 5 to 8 employees.
Supervisor Corporate Sales
1999-2000 — Chicago
Managed three associates and supported five large multinational customers’ (e.g. Caterpillar, 3M, who accounted for €50M+ revenue) request for quotes, service issue investigations, and KPI reporting.
Management Trainee
1998-1999 — Chicago
Learned the fundamental aspects of the business by being assigned to various roles in sales, operations, customer service, IT and BPO organizations for two years.
