Werner taps Leathers as new CEO

The Omaha, Neb.-based truckload carrier and logistics services provider has named former President and Chief Operating Officer Derek J. Leathers as its new chief executive officer, effective immediately.    Omaha, Neb.-based Truckload carrier and logistics services provider Werner Enterprises, Inc. has named Derek J. Leathers as its new chief executive officer, effective immediately.
   Leathers, who previously served as president and chief operating officer, replaces Clarence L. Werner, the company’s founder and first driver, who is stepping down from the CEO post as part of a planned management transition announced in August 2015. Werner will remain with the company as executive chairman.
   Throughout his 17-year career with Werner, Leathers has held executive management roles across multiple organizational service offerings, including the establishment and development of Werner’s Mexico cross-border operations, leadership oversight of the asset-based trucking businesses and development of Werner’s brokerage, freight management, intermodal and global logistics business units.
   As part of the management change, Werner also promoted H. Marty Nordlund to senior executive vice president and chief operating officer, where he will have executive operating responsibility for the company’s trucking and logistics business units. Nordlund was previously senior executive vice president of specialized services.
   In addition, the company promoted Jim S. Schelble to executive vice president and chief administrative officer. He was previously EVP of Marketing and Driver Resources. In his new role, Schelble will lead driver recruiting, as well as Werner’s driver school network, and its safety, human resources, pricing and corporate communications departments.
   Werner also elected Gerald H. Timmerman, previously a director of the company from 1988 to 2011, as a company director to fill an open position on the board.