Henrik Danford-Klein, President and CEO
Henrik Danford-Klein is President and CEO of Radical Logistics and is widely recognized as one of the leading logistics and transportation modeling experts, as well as one of the premier experts on decision support tools. Born in Denmark, Henrik graduated from the Technical University of Denmark with a Masters in Engineering with primary focus on Operations Research and Systems Design. Henrik started his career at CAPS Logistics as Associate Director for Client Services. In this role, he provided internal and external logistics modeling support, system development support, and expert CAPS Logistics TOOLKIT® support covering logistics problems such as sourcing, assignment, allocation, location, inventory control, transportation mode selection, freight consolidation, POE-analysis, shipment planning, production and distribution scheduling, multi-day fixed route planning and dynamic routing. He was widely regarded as the leading CAPS expert on Supply Chain modeling and was frequently called on as a resource for time-critical or unusually difficult projects. Henrik repeatedly provided high quality and extremely cost-effective solutions to difficult problems in very short time frames. Henrik's major accomplishment at CAPS was the design and development of the original CAPS Logistics Routing and Network Design platforms. These products served as the foundation for the current CAPS Supply Chain Designer and RoutePro products as well as all other vertical tools that CAPS has developed over the years. CAPS Logistics went through several acquisitions and is now part of INFOR.
In 1993, Henrik joined Schneider National, the largest truck load carrier in North America, as Senior Director of Logistics Engineering for Schneider Logistics. In this role, he was responsible for identifying savings for existing and potential customers through supply chain analysis, with focus on physical distribution and transportation. He then became Senior Director of Decision Technology, where he was responsible for the development of decision support and optimization tools. Among his accomplishments was the development of the most sophisticated freight optimization tools in the industry, pieces of which were patented. Some of the truly unique characteristics of these decision support tools were their ease of use, sophisticated user interfaces and exceptional build quality, in addition their advanced optimization capabilities.
In 1997, Henrik left Schneider and Green Bay and went to Chicago where he became Director of Network Design for Sears Logistics. In this position, he was responsible for optimizing the Sears Logistics Network by lowering cost and improving service. Among his duties was the responsibility for developing several highly advanced and comprehensive models of the Sears distribution network. These models were used for store realignment and distribution center location studies and resulted in savings of over five million dollars.
In 2000, Henrik launched Radical Logistics. Through Radical, Henrik has worked with a wide variety of companies in a consulting role and as a provider of logistics software. Companies that he has worked with include Ford Motors, Baxter Renal, Staples, Dell, Ingram Micro, Office Max, and United Stationers.
In addition to managing Radical Logistics, Henrik is Director of Logistics for LagasseSweet. Henrik lives in Chicago with his wife, Amy, and his three children, Erik, Jade and Mia.