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Thom Williams, Principal & Managing Director, AmherstAlphaAdvisors Co.

Thom Williams

Principal & Managing Director, AmherstAlphaAdvisors Co.

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Member of the Transportation Council

Council Member Biography

Thom Williams is the Principal & Managing Director at AmherstAlphaAdvisors Co. Mr. Williams is a recognized expert in the operational, financial, and technology issues key to profitability in the commercial freight transportation (trucking, intermodal, & ocean-marine) and corporate logistics sectors. He has served as the Executive Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Global Transportation & Logistics Group, a privately-held, technology-infused, fast-growing provider of asset-based corporate freight (truckload, rail intermodal, and marine container) transportation and distribution services and asset-lite third-party logistics services, serving major shipper-customers throughout the US, Canada, and Mexico. Under Mr. Williams’ direction, via selective acquisitions in combination with organic development, AGTLG’s gross revenues and net income grew consistently at an annually compounded rate exceeding 125%. (This is me - Update Profile)


Employment History

2006 - present
Principal & Managing Director, AmherstAlphaAdvisors Co.
2002 - 2007
Executive Vice President & Director, AMERICAN GLOBAL TRANSPORTATION & LOGISTICS CORPORATION

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Savvy Trucker JB Hunt Heads East, By Train!

November 17, 2009

Thom Williams, Principal & Managing Director, AmherstAlphaAdvisors Co.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. Announces Eastern Rail Deal | markets.on.nytimes.com

Truckers traveling via train? Yep, the smart ones do so with increasing frequency. Earlier this month, J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. announced that its already successful “Secret Formula” for Intermodal success will henceforth include much more of a current ingredient, one known as “NSC” orNorfolk...

Truckers need Grief Counseling more than financing!

November 12, 2009

Thom Williams, Principal & Managing Director, AmherstAlphaAdvisors Co.

Used truck values fall 45% in last 10 months! | www.nada.com

The brutal numbers displayed in the NADA Nov. '09 report of ever-declining used truck values! The markets now value a 3-year old truck at 45% less than its market value of just ten months ago! You can read the latest NADA Commercial Truck Market Update via this link: http://www.nada.com/B2B/home/...

The Secret Formula JB Hunt Transport Doesn’t Want You to Know!

November 3, 2009

Thom Williams, Principal & Managing Director, AmherstAlphaAdvisors Co.

J B Hunt (JBHT) Gets S&P 4 Star Buy Rating But Showing Bearish Technicals | www.marketintelligencecenter.com

Working quietly from deep within the beautiful but rather remote corporate offices of J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. in peaceful Lowell, AR, a sharp and select group of savvy truckers & financial wizards have, together, written, tested, and applied a “Secret Formula” that is now consistently generating...

The LTL market truckers once knew will never return!

October 19, 2009

Thom Williams, Principal & Managing Director, AmherstAlphaAdvisors Co.

LTL market remains in a state of flux | www.purchasing.com

Gone are the "good old days" of high-margin LTL (less than truckload) freight transportation. At its burial, many now laid-off union members, disheartened officials of union benefit and pension funds, once successful LTL executives, and many former vendors to the once-prosperous industry kindly paid...

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