Rod Westrum
Senior Partner

Rod Westrum brings over 20 years of professional sales leadership, strategic planning, and supply chain management and logistics experience to the Centurion Management Group. Rod began his career in 1986 with CF MotorFreight, an affiliate company of global logistics provider, Consolidated Freightways, where he held various senior management positions in this leading worldwide transportation company. Rod established himself as a leader with award-winning sales and esteemed contributions over the next fourteen years as he managed and developed large teams encompassing, sea operations, road operations, air operations and customer service both domestically and internationally. He directed transportation operations with P&L responsibilities and accounts of over 25M annually, increased the company’s presence through successful marketing and business developments, provided expertise with import and export procedures and developed relationships with other industry bodies and governments including OSHA and Customs. Rod’s energizing talent and diligence led to many prominent achievements company-wide, including countless project implementations in accordance with customer requirements, enhanced client relationships, systems and program development, team leadership, union negotiations, and on-going succession planning.

In 2000, Consolidated Freightways, announced aggressive growth plans within its CF AirFreight division, an air and ocean freight forwarder with value-added capabilities including transportation logistics, charter, and trade show services, to include an expansion of more than 30 stations in the upcoming year and increasing sales to more than $250 million in five years. Quickly the company announced a restructuring of business objectives and realignment of territories and promoted Rod into a newly created position as regional manager for the Great Lakes area. In his new executive role, Rod developed a successful sales team establishing business objectives, rapidly increasing the customer base through territorial expansion, aggressively exceeding sales goals, all contributing to unyielding growth and increased economic development.

In 2002, Rod joined forces with Centurion Management Group as a principal and senior partner, with an exclusive focus on the trade show and event industry, providing shipping, logistics, freight and transportation services, to an influential clientele all over the world. He and his elite team of trade show professionals recognize time critical planning and delivery and flawless execution are essential for clients and end users. With Rod’s leadership and commitment to extraordinary customer care, he has led the trade show vertical market to an unprecedented financial growth of 300% in five years.

Throughout his distinguished career, Rod has been recognized consistently and received numerous awards for top regional sales, commitment to leadership and team development, client loyalty, and unparalleled operational performance.

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