Management Team

The MercuryGate senior management team has worked closely together for more than ten years on the design, development and evolution of supply chain solutions, with a focus on shipment management. This logistics experience has been combined with the best top-notch I/T professionals to deliver a practical and effective solution for transportation management.

The MercuryGate team brings a unique perspective and experience set to the development of the MercuryGate Transportation Management Suite. They have worked closely with executives from all areas of the logistics market on requirements for design of transportation management solutions. They possess a practical, ground-up, hands-on working knowledge in the areas that MercuryGate addresses. This experience includes roles such as: operations, development, project management, operations research, consulting, product management, marketing and others, all in the logistics arena. This process has allowed the rapid development of an effective solution combined with a high degree of user acceptance and satisfaction. This is a team that understands the transportation management market from the bottom up and the top down.

Monica B. Wooden - CEO and Co-founder

Monica B. Wooden, is a dynamic leader and skilled strategist, who has "done it before". As Executive Vice President of the Americas for a global company, she grew the business from $8M in revenue to $26M during her three-year tenure (1997-1999), contributing significant profits to the parent company. As an executive for nine years with IBM, Ms. Wooden created new business ventures that were deployed worldwide. Ms. Wooden achieved her success by continuously delivering highly successful business solutions for clients, while building a high level of customer satisfaction. She has the experience to drive solutions to the marketplace with value propositions addressed to prospective customers, key potential alliance partners and industry leaders. Ms Wooden is a leader who supports clients to meet their strategic goals, while overcoming the demands of a rapidly changing marketplace. mbw@mercurygate.com

Steve Blough - President and Co-founder

Steven Blough, was a Custom Application Development Competency Leader for IBM Global Services. He led domestic and international consulting engagements for clients with supply chain management initiatives. Combining industry knowledge with his technology background, Mr. Blough re-engineers logistics business processes and transforms complex business requirements into innovative designs for information systems. As chief architect, Mr. Blough designed a communications and data platform to enable supply chain participants to collaborate on a real-time basis to manage transportation needs. Mr. Blough has over 20 years of experience in the design, development, and integration of supply chain information systems that have resulted in dramatically lower logistics costs for his client companies. techman@mercurygate.com

Edward R. (Dick) Johnston - Managing Director and VP, Sales

Dick Johnston, is a leader with over thirty years of experience in Information Technology and a proven record of surpassing customer expectations. Mr. Johnston is an executive of high integrity and intelligence who has created strong working relationships with clients and teams, based on honest, clear communication, trust, and respect. Mr. Johnston has the ability to grasp the underlying issues of business problems and to communicate strategic solutions. He builds partnerships with customers and partners that are based on aligning with their goals and finding the mutual objectives on which to build long-term business relationships. dj@mercurygate.com

Brian Armieri - Chief Technology Officer

Brian Armieri is Chief Technology Officer of MercuryGate International. Brian joined MercuryGate in 2002 and has 20 years experience in leading-edge technology initiatives. As a hands-on and directly involved CTO, he coordinates MercuryGate's efforts on both day-to-day activities and longer-term research efforts, and helps to ensure quality and consistency across MercuryGate's emerging products and technologies. Before his appointment as CTO, Brian served as President of Nexien Corp., a consulting group providing expertise, outsourcing, and training services based on Sun Microsystems’ Java2 Enterprise Edition platform. As President Brian assisted Fortune 500 companies such as Bank of America and Wachovia in strategically applying Java technologies for enterprise systems integration, B2B e-commerce, and custom systems development. Brian's long career as a consultant has given him experience in a wide range of industries including finance, insurance, health care, higher education, and government. Brian received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Cornell University in 1990 and a master's degree in Computer Science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1994. 

Rob Cook - Vice President, Client Services

Rob Cook is Vice President of Client Services and has over twenty years of experience in the Supply Chain, Logistics, and Transportation Management industries. He has a proven track record of successful customer engagements with both mid-size and Fortune 100 companies such as CertainTeed, McLane, Texas Instruments, Solectron, Saint-Gobain, HP, and Xerox. Prior to joining MercuryGate, Rob was a Director of Professional Services at SSA Global responsible for implementation and customer support of the TMS Solution Suite. Rob has also held a management position at FedEx Supply Chain Services and was a consultant in the Professional Services group at both Encompass and KPMG. rac@mercurygate.com.

Brad McPhail - Vice President, Implementations

Brad McPhail is Vice President of Implementations and has over fifteen years of experience in the Supply Chain, Logistics and Transportation industries. Prior to joining MercuryGate, Brad was a Director of Logistics Systems at Langham, a third party logistics company, where he was responsible for implementation of customized supply chain solutions for several of their major accounts. He has implemented solutions for companies such as Pepsico, ConAgra Foods, Simon Property Group, and Eli Lilly and Company. Brad works closely with clients to re-engineer and implement business processes that support their strategic initiatives. brad@mercurygate.com

John Bilke - Vice President, Integrations

John Bilke is Vice President of Integrations and has over 25 years of experience in the Supply Chain, Logistics and Transportation industries. Prior to joining MercuryGate, John was Director of Vendor Relations for Satellite Logistics Group, a fully integrated logistics service provider, where he was responsible for managing the Operations and Purchasing groups along with management of the Transportation Management System. John has also held management positions with Cardinal Logistics Management, J. B. Hunt Transport and Ryder Systems. Prior integration solutions have been successfully completed with Warehouse Management Systems, Financial Management Systems, Order Management Systems and Customer Relationship Management systems along with proprietary database systems for companies such as Heineken USA, Anheuser Busch, Home Depot, Builders First Source, PetSmart and Lowe's Home Improvement. John works with customers to ensure that all data flows in a streamlined manner across the supply chain. john@mercurygate.com