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Grant Goodale. (LinkedIn Photo)
— Grant Goodale is jumping back into trucking. The Convoy co-founder announced Tuesday that he is now chief product and technology officer at Ryder, a Florida-based logistics giant.
Goodale previously served as CTO at Convoy, the Seattle trucking marketplace startup valued at nearly $4 billion before it shut down in 2023.
Goodale said he was contacted by Andrew Berberick, co-founder of Baton, a logistics tech startup that Ryder acquired in 2022.
“The team was looking for someone to fill Andrew’s sizable shoes,” Goodale wrote on LinkedIn. “So I’m back doing what I love — working at the intersection of the latest technology and the business that makes all of modern life possible.”
Goodale, who remains based in Seattle, co-founded Convoy in 2015 with his former Amazon colleague Dan Lewis. He began as CTO and later moved into a chief experience officer position before stepping down in 2023. The startup built software to match truckers and shippers, and raised money from the likes of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. Flexport acquired Convoy assets.
Lewis, who was CEO of Convoy, earlier this year joined Microsoft in a chief product officer role.
Ryder established a Silicon Valley office in 2023 after acquiring Baton, which aimed to help trucking companies boost efficiency. Ryder reported $12.6 billion in revenue last year, up 7%.
Other key personnel changes across the Pacific Northwest tech industry:
— Seattle e-commerce startup Shipium promoted Geoff Tamman to chief financial officer. After more than 12 years at Amazon, Tamman joined Shipium in 2022 and was previously vice president of finance and operations.
— Seattle venture firm Graham & Walker hired Ryan Hughes as its new chief of staff. Hughes, who is based in New York City, previously spent nearly five years at Goldman Sachs. Leslie Feinzaig, founder of Graham & Walker, previously wrote about the “old school hiring process” the firm used during its search for the role.
