Speakers

Bill serves as Principal of Supply Chain Ecology, a boutique consultancy he created in 2020 as a platform to research, develop and promote more environmentally sustainable supply chain strategies through research and advisory services. A career supply chain management consultant, Bill has managed complex supply chain initiatives for some of the world’s largest companies as a Director at Deloitte Consulting, a Director at Kurt Salmon (now Accenture Strategy) and as Principal at Chainalytics.

Bill comes to the conference with previous case work with both the Physical Internet and the intermodal freight ecosystem. In 2012 he was a contributing author to the Final Research Report of the CELDi Physical Internet Project, Phase I. In 2016 he presented a case study on collaborative logistics for the Physical Internet conference in Atlanta, GA. Last year he led a research study sponsored by The Environmental Defense Fund exploring how to expand intermodal freight as a sustainability strategy. Many of the recommendations from the intermodal study are aligned with physical internet concepts.

Bill graduated from Georgia Tech with a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering. Industry honors include being named "Pro to Know" by Supply and Demand Chain Executive Magazine in 2010 and 2018, and Champions Award "Rock Stars of the Supply Chain" by Food Logistics Magazine in 2018.

Bill lives in Asheville, North Carolina with his wife Susan.

Josh Raglin is Chief Sustainability Officer at Norfolk Southern Corporation, one of the nation’s premier transportation companies. Norfolk Southern connects customers to markets and communities to economic opportunity, with safe, reliable, and sustainable shipping solutions. The company’s network spans 22 states, every major container port in the eastern United States, and a majority of the U.S. population and manufacturing base.

Appointed Chief Sustainability Officer in 2020, Raglin leads Norfolk Southern's sustainability strategy by championing sustainable practices in the company’s daily operations to achieve efficiencies, control costs, generate revenue, and reduce environmental impacts. These efforts include close collaboration with department leaders company-wide, along with external stakeholders such as customers, investors, suppliers, and communities.

Raglin, a wildlife biologist, joined Norfolk Southern in 1996 as a Forest Ranger at Brosnan Forest, the company’s 14,400-acre conference and research facility in South Carolina. He would continue rising through the ranks at Brosnan Forest before being named General Manager Facilities in 2006. 

For two decades, Josh led the railroad’s efforts to create a nature-based solutions platform. This innovative approach optimizes multiple ecological assets such as forest carbon sequestration, wetland and stream restoration, and land conservation while generating revenues from both forestry and traditional land-management practices.

He shares his experience with the next generation of environmentalists by serving on college advisory boards for Auburn University, Clemson University, and Georgia Tech. He also serves the greater community as an active board member for the US Endowment for Forestry and Communities and The Longleaf Alliance. He is also a founding member and active advisor to Drawdown Georgia and Sustain SC.

Raglin earned a Bachelor of Science in Wildlife and Fisheries Ecology from Oklahoma State University.