Leadership

Tim Barrett's primary responsibility as Chief Operating Officer is to develop customized warehousing, transportation, and information technology solutions for our clients that improve their performance and reduce their overall supply chain costs.

Tim has served as President of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals' New England Roundtable. Before joining Barrett Distribution, Tim held positions at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Boston, MA where he worked with multinationals such as Bose and Tyco.

Tim received his M.B.A. from The Ross School at The University of Michigan and B.A. in Economics and Accounting from The College of the Holy Cross.

As President of Barrett Distribution Centers, Arthur Barrett ensures that the Company's operations, systems and infrastructure, finance, engineering, and customer service are delivering quality and efficiency to our customers. He accomplishes these objectives by ensuring that we hire the best people, develop them, and give them the tools to excel for our customers.

Arthur has many years of experience in the third-party logistics and supply chain industries and is recognized as a visionary in this field. He has been a member of the IT and Education Committees of the International Warehousing and Logistics Association (IWLA), and formed the Insurance and Legal Affairs Committee that he chairs. Arthur is a past Board Member of the Warehousing Education and Research Council, and currently serves as a member of the Executive Committee on the Board of Directors of the IWLA.

Arthur earned his M.B.A. from Babson College, B.A. in Economics/Accounting from the College of the Holy Cross, and B.S. in Civil Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Mike O'Donnell is Senior Vice President, Customer Solutions at Barrett Distribution Centers where he is responsible for sales growth, expanding Barrett's infrastructure in existing and new markets, strategic initiatives, and marketing.

Mike brings third-party supply chain experience in operations, solutions design, strategy, marketing, and sales. Coupled with his regional 3PL background leading business development for Weber Distribution, Mike has held positions at global companies including DEX, GENCO and Exel PLC.

Mike is active in the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and is past President of CSCMP's Southern California Roundtable. He also participates in the Warehouse Education Research Council (WERC) and has had speaking engagements at both CSCMP and WERC events. Mike has also served as an advisor to the California State University Fullerton Logistics curriculum.

Mike earned his B.A. in Business from Adams State College, Alamosa, CO.

Mark Sotir focuses on designing distribution and transportation solutions for existing and new customers. Mark leads customer expansion efforts that incorporate all modes of transportation (truckload, less-than-truckload and parcel services), along with Barrett's warehouse-based service solutions.

Mark has many years of experience in distribution center and transportation operations, including various management positions at UPS that involved roles in Small Package, Feeder Operations, and Industrial Engineering. Prior to joining Barrett in 2001, Mark was the Chief Operating Officer at Parker's Express and Parker Warehouse, a regional LTL/TL carrier and third-party logistics provider.

Mark serves of the Board of Directors of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) New England Roundtable and is an active lecturer at Curry College in their Leadership Program. Mark is also a member of the Supply Chain Management Advisory Council at The University of Rhode Island.

Mark earned his M.S. in Management from Lesley University, Cambridge, and a B.S. in Business Management from Eastern Nazarene College.

Bob Willert is Director of Operations for Barrett's warehousing and distribution centers. Bob is responsible for performance execution that exceeds our customers' expectations. He is intimately involved in directing all new customer designs and implementations. Prior to joining Barrett, Bob served as Chief Operating Officer of Cherry & Webb, where he ran all aspects of the retail operation, including all distribution centers. Prior to Cherry & Webb, Bob was Director of Operations for Century 21 Department Stores in New York.

Bob received his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.

As Director of Administration at Barrett, Jay Scheiner works closely with our customers to ensure their satisfaction with our services, communication, and reporting. Jay directs our Customer Service, Finance, IT, Transportation, and Industrial Engineering departments.

Jay has experience in the retail and wholesale industries at the executive level. Prior to joining Barrett, Jay was both a Chief Operating Officer and Chief Information Officer for several retailers and distributors, including Casual Male Big & Tall, a $1B multi divisional, multi channel retailer; Work 'n Gear, a shoe and apparel retailer; and Atsco Footwear, a footwear wholesaler.

Jay received his B.A. from The City College of New York and his M.B.A. from Suffolk University, Boston, MA.

Tom Shiels is our project management leader for all new customer startups. In this role, he manages the system interfaces, product specifications, facility design and layout, and is the liaison between operations and IT to ensure that work processes and methods designed by operations function as planned in our WMS system. Tom headed up Barrett's Synapse WMS implementation and is instrumental in the ongoing development of Barrett's in-house IT solutions and expertise.

Tom's years of distribution and fulfillment experience include managing multiple million square foot distribution centers for TJ Maxx and leading the system implementation for several distribution operations.

Prior to joining Barrett, Tom served as Vice President of Fulfillment at Chadwick's of Boston, a high-quality women's fashion catalogue. His responsibilities included managing multiple facilities shipping over 100,000 orders per day.