Raised by parents who worked for a van line and later started their own freight forwarders, Oren has deep-seated roots in logistics and entrepreneurship. At 21, he founded a 125-truck fleet that provided white-glove freight service throughout the U.S. and Canada. His subsequent venture, SolSource Logistics, continues to operate today, with Oren serving as chairman. SolSource Logistics opened Oren’s eyes to how wasteful traditional freight shipping is. He became determined to find a new approach by building a technology-driven solution.

Flock Freight (formerly AuptiX) opened its doors in 2015, driven by Oren’s vision of using technology to combine multiple shipments into one multi-stop shared truckload. Under Oren’s leadership, Flock Freight continues to rapidly grow while creating a new standard of service for shippers, increasing revenue for carriers, and eliminating the impact of carbon emissions through the patented shared truckload solution, FlockDirect®.

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Pat is responsible for Flock’s finance and operational teams. He draws on his 15+ years of experience in leadership and advisory roles with some of the world’s most innovative companies, focusing on those at the intersection of emerging technologies and the industrial world. His robust background includes extensive experience in strategy, operations, and finance.

Before joining Flock Freight, Pat served as CFO at TuSimple, leading its $1.3 billion traditional initial public offering, and as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley in New York and Chicago, advising clients globally on mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and other strategic transactions. In his early career, Pat worked in public accounting at Deloitte.

Pat holds an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BBA and MSA from The University of Notre Dame.

Chris leads the development and execution of Flock’s commercial strategy as it scales the Flock Direct Shared Truckload platform across North America, and is responsible for Flock’s network development, risk and compliance, and pricing teams. Fueled by a passion for driving technology innovation across transportation and logistics operations, Chris brings an extensive background in supply chain management and business development to the Flock Freight team.

He has over 25 years of commercial experience, operating at the intersection of transportation, software development, and market economics. Prior to Flock, Chris spent 14 years at Coyote Logistics where he joined the early leadership team at its launch in 2006. As Chief Strategy Officer over much of his tenure and leading Coyote’s customer-facing Sales, Operations, and Pricing teams, he played an essential role in the company’s rise to over $4 billion in global revenue, becoming the second-largest U.S. truckload (TL) freight broker by 2020. Along the way, he also developed Coyote’s Managed TMS service offering (CTM) and developed and published a widely used U.S. truckload market forecasting methodology, a refined version of which Chris continues to publish under Pickett Research, LLC as a monthly report. Prior to Coyote, he served in advisory and leadership roles at a number of leading supply chain technology and consulting firms after beginning his career in Silicon Valley in the late ‘90s, working on the first generation of B2C e-commerce fulfillment platforms.

Chris holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Virginia Tech, an MBA from Georgia Tech, and a Master of Engineering in Logistics degree from MIT – where he did his graduate thesis research on supply chain resilience under Dr. Yossi Sheffi.

Lu leads technology at Flock Freight. He draws on 25 years of experience building products and leading software engineering teams.

Prior to joining Flock Freight, he led product development at SaaS startups, from initial traction and growth through successful exit by acquisition. At Taxcient, acquired by Avalara, Lu led the development of the company’s flagship SaaS product, which the industry recognized as best of breed and was implemented by enterprise customers including Apple, AutoZone, and Symantec. Previously, Lu was a Principal Engineer at Oracle, where he developed ContentDB, a large-scale content management platform. ContentDB replaced 1000s of Windows Servers across Oracle globally with a single cloud deployment and handled billions of documents for enterprise customers and government institutions, including Allstate, Volkswagon, CaxiaBank, the US Forest Service, and the NIF to support fusion ignition.

Lu has a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

Vince Byrd leads our Legal and People teams, bringing over 15 years of legal and business experience in complex transactions, technology, and operations. Vince has successfully represented clients in complex mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financing, and restructuring transactions, totaling billions of dollars in consideration. Vince has extensive experience as a strategic business partner overseeing Legal and Human Resources departments, leading companies through critical funding, growth, turnaround, and exit periods.

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Prior to joining Flock Freight, Vince served as Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel at Search Optics, an automotive technology company. Vince led multiple teams and executed an array of strategic transactions and key business initiatives at Search Optics. Previously Vince was a corporate generalist at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where his clients included public and private entities ranging from Dow 30 companies to private start‐ups. Before law school, Vince began his career in business development at an e-commerce company.

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Vince received his JD from UCLA School of Law and his BA from Harvard University.