Leadership Team

Satish Maripuri
CEO & President
Satish holds a MS in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Andhra University, India.
Jeff Hopper
Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
Jeff received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems from Chapman College and is a United States Marine Corps Veteran. He was awarded Top 100 Marketing Executive by Advertising Age.


Tony Salazar
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Tony has an M.B.A from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Washington State University.
Mike Weaver
Vice President, Sales
Mike joined DAT 15 years ago and is a transportation industry expert, focusing on delivering value throughout the customer experience. He has held progressively responsible sales leadership positions, managing all aspects of the DAT sales process, from lead generation to outside sales. Most recently he served as Director of Enterprise Sales, focusing on DAT’s largest partners.
Mike earned his Bachelor of Science in Marketing and Finance from the University of Oregon.


Lisa Henshaw
Vice President, Human Resources
Lisa earned her bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, San Diego, and holds certificates in human resources management and compensation.
Joe Doyle
General Counsel
Joe earned his juris doctorate from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and bachelor’s degree from Rhodes College.


Ken Adamo
Chief of Analytics
Ken Adamo serves as Chief of Analytics at DAT Freight & Analytics, where he is responsible for driving new product development, customer engagement, and industry analysis. Prior to joining DAT, Adamo led pricing and decision science teams at FedEx Logistics. During his tenure in the industry he built innovative pricing and forecasting models, leveraging internal and external data sources to improve internal decision-making and increase profitability. Ken has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and extensively in trade publications as a leading voice on freight market trends. He leads a team of market experts who study every facet of the logistics industry to bring the best available insight to customers.
Prior to his career in logistics, Adamo worked in pricing and analytics at a deregulated energy provider. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Akron and lives in Northeast Ohio with his wife and three children.
Sarita Benjamin
Senior Director of Product Management
Senior Director of Product Management at DAT, Sarita is responsible for defining and building the industry’s leading freight management products for freight carriers, brokers, and shippers. Sarita has held various leadership positions over the past 15 years, working in strategy and technology development, quality, and product delivery. Prior to DAT, she served as a product leader in fortune 500 companies that include Intel, directly impacting operational cost savings and EBITDA margins.
Sarita has a Masters degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and holds a Masters certificate in Product Management from George Washington University, School of Business.


Shelley Bower
Vice President of Engineering
Shelley Bower is the Vice President of Technology and Engineering of DAT, leading the engineering teams responsible for data centers, computing, networking, storage, data, search, monitoring, developer productivity, tooling, and corporate IT infrastructure.
Before joining DAT, Shelley spent over 20 years in the technology industry. Her background includes leading engineering, architecture, and technical program management at AWS, building technology for retrieving satellite imagery for Ground stations as a service; creating high-definition maps for the leading German car vendors’ autonomous driving programs at Here Technologies; leading the program to break up the monolith and also their autonomous driving involvement at Uber for the company’s Artificial Intelligence; and leading areas for developer productivity and initial development of Spinnaker at Netflix. Shelley co-founded a software consulting company that developed and sold technology solutions for small businesses.
Shelley has a BS in Computer Science from Colorado State University and a BS in Architectural Engineering from the University of Wyoming.
About DAT
DAT operates the largest truckload freight marketplace in North America. Transportation brokers, carriers, news organizations and industry analysts rely on DAT for market trends and data insights derived from 400 million freight matches and a database of $150 billion of market transactions.
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