Phil Roe, President, Logistics UK
Phil Roe joined Logistics UK as President in April 2022 after five years as a non-executive director. Prior to joining he was a board director at DHL Supply Chain which was the culmination of his 35-year career with DHL and XPO. He is also a non-executive director and trustee at the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport.
Roe has substantial experience of supply chain leadership across multiple customers, sectors and geographies, with 35 years’ experience in a variety of senior leadership roles within operations and functional areas. These include Managing Director, Chief Operations Officer and Chief Customer Officer and Strategy Director.
Andy Fitt, Executive Membership Associate, Logistics UK
Andy Fitt has more than 40 years’ experience within UK supply chains working within a variety of sectors and roles. He has worked with some of the major global 3PLs and held Chief Operations Officer and Managing Director roles, most recently as the MD and UK statutory director of Yusen UK Ltd.
Fitt is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport and has an MSc in Logistics and Supply Chain from Cranfield.
Martin Palmer, Executive Membership Associate, Logistics UK
Martin Palmer has over 25 years’ supply chain experience working with the largest global manufacturers, retailers and ecommerce providers as well as in the public sector. Palmer has now been consulting for several years, prior to this being Group Commercial Director and Development & Business Unit Director with some of the largest providers of transportation and logistics services in the UK. In each case, he led teams created to find innovative supply chain solutions.
His supply chain consultant work has led to new areas of expertise in the public sector, urban logistics and the environmental supply chain. These services have led him to working with some leading property developers and local authorities. The common factor is always finding new ways to rethink supply chains and the forces that act on them to resolve issues that organisations face and make them ready to meet their strategic plans.
Palmer is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Kevin Green, Policy and Communications Director, Logistics UK
Kevin Green has been an Executive Director with Logistics UK for several years and has been pivotal in modernising and developing the business group’s strategy, alongside formulating and improving the effectiveness of its messaging, policy themes, industry asks and campaigns.
Green has a strong blue-chip corporate background, with a significant focus on transport and logistics. He has worked in leadership roles for a number of large corporates, including Capita, Logica, Mitie, Balfour Beatty, KPMG and PwC.
Project highlights include working on the sale and implementation for major Public Private Partnerships, including: Congestion Charging in London, The Criminal Records Bureau, and HS2, and delivering The Skills Show for 100,000 young people.
Jerry Kane, Commercial Director, Logistics UK
Jerry Kane joined Logistics UK in 2018 with over 25 years’ commercial experience in the parcels, logistics services and logistics software markets.
During this time Kane was sales director of some of the industry’s leading operators including DHL, Yodel and Eddie Stobart.
In addition to this he has run his own logistics consultancy specialising in business development, product development, sales and marketing.
Ben Garratt, Deputy Director – Public Affairs, Logistics UK
Ben Garratt joined Logistics UK in early 2023 to form and lead the Public Affairs team. He engages with politicians and other policy makers on the role logistics plays underpinning the economy, and what the business group's members need to deliver now and for the future.
With a background in public affairs and communications in passenger transport and energy, and prior to that, Middle East politics, Garratt is also the policy lead for technology and innovation at Logistics UK.
Michelle Gardner, Deputy Director – Policy, Logistics UK
Michelle Gardner joined Logistics UK as Head of Public Policy in 2021. She was promoted to Deputy Director – Public Policy the following year.
Gardner oversees the business group’s policy work on all related topics, including decarbonisation, connected and autonomous vehicles, the strategic road network, skills, multimodal logistics, cities and infrastructure.
With a background in both policy and public affairs prior to joining Logistics UK, Gardner was an environmental manager at the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Before that she worked for the British Retail Consortium, first leading on public affairs and then on employment and health and safety policy.