Brian Kinsey (Chairman)

Brian has dedicated his career to improving the management and operation of motor carriers. He has in-depth experience in the areas of operations, marketing, purchasing, safety, and industry public relations. He brings to CarrierPoint demonstrated strengths in the areas of building organizations, developing concepts into successful programs and products, focusing on results, negotiating and resolving conflicts, and planning strategies and budgets.

As a Vice President with Landstar Systems and an Executive Vice President with Landstar Inway, Brian had primary responsibility for executing operational initiatives that delivered significant value to the company. Examples of these initiatives include implementing programs that reduced owner-operator turnover; creating and managing a buying cooperative for owner-operators, agents, and drivers; and creating the business plan for a startup Internet e-Commerce catalog business to service the operating needs of trucking companies.

Brian received his bachelor's degree in Behavioral Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard University.

J. Edward Houston

Mr. Houston is of counsel to the law firm of Houston & Shahady, P.A., a Fort-Lauderdale-based law firm. He has practiced law for forty years and served six years as a United States Bankruptcy judge. He was President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Barnett Bank of South Florida for six years; Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of South Florida Savings & Loan for two years; and Chairman of the Board for Old Dominion Insurance Co. for five years. More recently, Mr. Houston was President and Chief Executive Officer of Port Dania, Inc. and Savoy Shipping Company. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Avatar Holdings, Inc., Barnett Leasing Company, Barnett Bank Trust Company and Great American Bank.

Mr. Houston holds degrees from Stetson University and Stetson College of Law.

C. Tycho Howle

Mr. Howle, founder of Harbinger Corporation, brings an unparalleled knowledge of and commitment to the business to business e-commerce space that will help shape CarrierPoint’s emergence as one of the leaders in the rapidly growing e-logistics industry.

Prior to Harbinger, Howle was a consultant with McKinsey Company, Inc., specializing in marketing and strategy studies. He also held positions at Hewlett-Packard and Booz, Allen Hamilton’s Applied Research Unit. Howle earned his MBA from Harvard Business School after completing both undergraduate and graduate studies at Clemson University where he earned a BS with honors in Physics and an MS in Systems Engineering.

In addition to Howle, the CarrierPoint board of directors includes: J. Edward Houston, counsel to Houston & Shahady, P.A., James P. Thompson, senior vice president and chief operating officer or the Transportation Services business unit of the UPS Logistics Group, Alex Rosen and Rakesh Sood, general partners of Sprout, Brian Kinsey, executive vice-president, John Thomson, chief executive officer of CarrierPoint and co-founder of CarrierPoint and Cliff Isaacson, executive vice president, chief technology officer and co-founder of CarrierPoint.

James P. Thompson

Mr. Thompson is Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Transportation Services business unit of the UPS Logistics Group. Transportation Services offers comprehensive, integrated transportation solutions with product offerings including transportation management, dedicated contract carriage, freight services, intermodal services and automotive services. Transportation Services is comprised of the combined resources of Worldwide Dedicated Services, Martrac and UPS Autogistics.

As Chief Operating Officer of Transportation Services, Mr. Thompson is responsible for managing and directing the group. Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Thompson was Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance and Accounting for the UPS Logistics Group. He was responsible for all finance, accounting, real estate and facilities. Throughout his more than twenty years with UPS, Mr. Thompson has held various positions in operations, accounting and finance including Package Operations Supervisor, Accounting Supervisor, Accounting Manager, District Controller, Corporate Domestic Credit Manager and Vice President of Finance.

Mr. Thompson is originally from the Chicago area and holds a degree in marketing from the College of St. Francis and an MBA in finance from DePaul University. He is a member of the Council of Logistics Management (CLM).

Alex Rosen

Mr. Rosen joined Sprout in 1996 and was promoted to General Partner in 1999. He previously worked as an Associate for General Atlantic Partners, focusing on software investments; for Boston Consulting Group, designing product strategy for a telecommunications software vendor; and as a Financial Analyst for Credit Suisse First Boston.

Rakesh Sood

Mr. Sood joined Sprout as a General Partner in January, 2000 with over 18 years of Wall Street and technology industry experience. Prior to joining Sprout, Rakesh was a Vice President and senior analyst in the Internet/On-line Software and Services group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and headed the E-Commerce sector, with a special focus on B2B.

Mr. Sood was ranked a leading E-Commerce/Internet analyst in the 1997, 1998 and 1999 Greenwich Surveys. He joined Goldman from Hambrecht & Quist where he was a senior technology analyst. While at Hambrecht & Quist, Mr. Sood co-founded the Internet franchise and was closely involved with initial public offerings of UUNET, Netscape and Check Point Software. Prior to joining H&Q, Rakesh held operating positions with AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, and Intel.

John Thomson

(See Bio from Management Team Page)

Cliff Isaacson

(See Bio from Management Team Page)