FreightVineMarch-2019

Mike Kessler – BDS I’ve been with ALC for five years. I grew up in Wisconsin and have lived in the Madison area for most of my life. My wife, Justine and I have been married 15 years and have a nine-year-old daughter, Natalie. Together we enjoy cheering on all the Wisconsin sports teams (of course), travelling (usually to somewhere warmer than Wisconsin which is almost everywhere), and going for walks with our dog, Rosie. Now, we also spend many weekends at the pool for swim meets since Natalie has become immersed in the world of competitive swimming. We also enjoy movies and spending time with friends. Beau Thompson – BDS I was born and raised in a small town in Illinois where the culinary delicacy is gas station pizza (Casey’s General Store – you gotta try the taco pizza). Then I moved to a larger town with stop lights and chain pizza restaurants where I worked as a sports director at several radio stations. In 2010, I was featured in a Sports Illustrated column for broadcasting 153 high school basketball games in a 16 week period. Following my foray in radio, I worked as the Director of the Leatherneck Sports Network at Western Illinois University while also going back to school for a degree in marketing. This is where I met Dr. Jim Kenny and was introduced to ALC. I married my wife, Amy in 2017 and we have a dog named Biscuit. In my free time, I collect Chicago Cubs baseball memorabilia that includes a collection of more than 258,000 Cubs baseball cards and more than 300 autographed baseballs. James Westphal – Transportation Broker I’ve been married for 14 years to my wife, Jackie and have two amazing children, Camron (10) and Elise (5). I enjoy spending time travelling with my family, plus cooking, art, and I am an avid gamer. I attended Loras College where I studied studio art and art history. After college I moved to Madison where I worked in sales for Game Stop, in addition to sales and operations management at Best Buy before coming to work for the ALC Madison office. Jeff Olson – Transportation Broker I was born in a very small town by Green Bay, WI called Gillett. I grew up on a small dairy farm with five brothers and sisters, which my oldest brother still operates as a much larger dairy farm today. Needless to say, most of my days as a kid revolved around doing chores as the cows never took a day off. When I graduated from high school, I decided to get out of farming and attended a local university. I earned my Bachelor of Science Degree in Mass Communications with a minor in Coaching from the University of Wisconsin-