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2025 BOTY Award Chairperson

Bob Trebilcock

On March 29, 2024, Bob retired from Peerless Media, where he had been the editorial director of Supply Chain Management Review, executive editor of Modern Materials Handling and co-launched the NextGen Supply Chain Conference. He had a great run of more than 40 years in the magazine publishing business, with a focus on illuminating the successes in warehouse automation.

2025 BOTY Award Judge

Amy Villeneuve

Amy Villeneuve is a seasoned tech executive, board director, and strategic advisor to technology startups. As former President and COO of Amazon Robotics and Vice President at Amazon, she spearheaded the growth of Kiva Systems resulting in the acquisition by Amazon and then led the scaling and transformation into Amazon Robotics. She splits her time between Boston and France where she and her husband operate a vineyard and produce Domaine Travelle wine.

2025 BOTY Award Judge

Chris Lingamfelter

Chris is an experienced consultative leader with a proven track record for building businesses. He specialized in complex solutions around transformational initiatives in Supply Chain and Logistics. He’s extremely well connected in the warehouse automation and distribution management ecosystem. Known for innovation, new ventures and international experience. He is currently Founder and Managing Partner of Robot Advisors.

2025 BOTY Award Judge

David Huff

David Huff has over 28 years of warehouse solution design experience working for notable companies like Sysco Foods, SVT Robotics, TGW Logistics, Honeywell Intelligrated, and Swisslog. His vast body of work spans robotic systems in: AMRs, ASRS, each picking, pallet movement, and case handling.

2025 BOTY Award Judge

David Widdifield

Dr. David Widdifield, DBA is a senior supply chain management academician and practitioner with a combined 31 years’ military and
retail supply chain experience. Retail industry experience includes channel development and operations in the business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C) retail segments of consumer package goods in the apparel, footwear, and grocery categories. He currently serves as Assistant Dean, Academic Operations of University of Texas at Dallas at Naveen Jindal School of Management
 

2025 BOTY Award Judge

Kevin Lawton

You could say Kevin is a warehouse nerd! Creating content through podcasts and videos for the warehousing world has allowed him to explore all the different corners of this diverse and, perhaps, sexy world. Through his years of experience working in the operations world, Kevin has been able to bring a unique perspective to creating this content as he has lived it and continues to live it through his own micro-fulfillment center.

2025 BOTY Award Judge

Peter Skov

At the forefront of logistic innovation, Peter’s expertise in AI and robotics has been instrumental in driving growth and business development across Benelux and Germany. Peter’s roles as Senior Logistics Consultant has facilitated strategic partnerships that extend reach into Netherlands, Scandinavia, the UK, and the US. With a solid foundation in IT solutions for supply chain efficiency, Peter’s recent tenure as Global IT Head for Digitalization & Innovation at CEVA Logistics cemented competencies in automation, computer vision, and manufacturing process improvement. Peter is focused on delivering customer-centric innovations that not only streamline operations but also propel the logistics sector into a sustainable future.