Monica Isbell - Supply chain security risk assessment and risk mitigation action planning
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Ms. Isbell’s 23 year career as an international logistician incorporates a unique combination of operations and sales management in the international trade and logistics industries. Her broad and practical knowledge base covers all modes of transportation, logistics, warehousing, vendor and logistics service provider management, customs compliance, and purchase order and shipment tracking systems. Experience as both an importer/exporter and logistics service provider (LSP) affords her a unique perspective of the intricacies of end-to-end supply chain management. She is a creative, process-minded strategic thinker with a pragmatic approach, and has a demonstrated track record of successfully conceiving and implementing positive change.

Prior to founding Starboard Alliance Company, Ms. Isbell held executive positions with Columbia Sportswear Company as the Director of Corporate Logistics and Trade and with Asics Tiger Corporation as Manager, Purchasing and Inventory Control. Her experience as a logistics service provider includes Vice President and Manager of Corporate Customers for Direct Line Cargo Management Services, Inc./Danzas AEI; Western Region Manager for Buyers & Shippers Enterprises, a Sea-Land Service, Inc. subsidiary; and Western Region Marketing Manager and Western Region Sales Manager for Sea-Land Service, Inc.

Clients have included Nike, Nike Team Sports, Fred Meyer/Kroger, Pope & Talbot, InFocus, Cyber Acoustics, Port of Portland, Port of Vancouver Washington, OIA Global Logistics, Kintetsu World Express, Levi Strauss, Warner Bros. Studio Stores, K-Swiss, Esprit, and Petsmart.

Ms. Isbell received her undergraduate degree in Politics, with an international concentration, and Degree of Proficiency in Russian Studies from Princeton University, and is fluent in Russian and French. She served as Vice President and Board of Directors member of the Pacific Northwest International Trade Association (PNITA) for two years prior to its merger with the Portland Business Alliance (PBA) in July 2003. Ms. Isbell currently is a board member of the PBA and also holds membership in the Columbia River Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association.

In 2002 and 2003, Ms. Isbell was a guest lecturer for a course at Portland State University’s Masters in International Management Program entitled Marketing to Asia. She has spoken on various topics at conferences including the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America, the Transportation Club of San Francisco and PNITA, and has conducted training seminars on subjects including supply chain security and Customs-Trade Partnership against Terrorism (C-TPAT). She has also written articles for the Journal of Commerce and Marine Digest and Cargo Business News.