Dave Bozeman

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Dave Bozeman · Staged record CTL-P-1142 · Entity Depth Program · 651 words · Evidence grade: VERIFIED (canonical master, carried unchanged) · Researched 2026-10-25

Dave Bozeman became President and Chief Executive Officer of C.H. Robinson — and joined its board of directors — effective June 26, 2023, succeeding interim CEO Scott Anderson. His Business Roundtable member profile, the graph's verification anchor, gives the two corporate chapters that made the appointment legible: at Amazon, Bozeman was vice president of Amazon Transportation Services from 2017 to 2022, where he built and ran Amazon's global middle-mile logistics network; before that he was vice president of Ford Motor Company's Customer Service Division, overseeing parts, services, accessories, and vehicle remarking for Ford and Lincoln service centers — the first position of its kind at Ford. The graph's stored note describes him as the ninth Black executive currently serving, at his appointment, on the Fortune 500 chief-executive list on which this graph records him; the consulted biographies do not independently state that ranking, and this entry carries the appointment facts without it (see the batch index).

The fuller biography in his American Red Cross governor profile fills the earlier decades: sixteen years at Harley-Davidson, where he led advanced manufacturing and engineering and became known for implementing lean-manufacturing strategies across the company's factories, and roles at Caterpillar before that. He holds an M.S. in Engineering Management from the Milwaukee School of Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing Design Technology from Bradley University. Fast Company's profile of his leadership style traces the pattern across all four employers — a customer obsession learned on factory floors and in dealer networks, where he developed a reputation for helping large organizations harness technology and execute digital transformation — and the C.H. Robinson leadership biography states the present tense: he leads one of the world's largest logistics platforms.

C.H. Robinson's scale is the context the appointment came with, and the sources give it in varying figures — the Business Roundtable profile speaks of more than $30 billion in freight under management across 20 million shipments, while the Red Cross biography gives $23 billion and 37 million shipments; the numbers move with the source's date, and this entry states neither, noting only that the company is, in its own words, one of the world's largest logistics platforms, moving freight for customers across North America and globally. Bozeman's Produce News announcement fills in the governance record: he serves on the Board of Governors of the American Red Cross and on the boards of the Brookings Institution and Anderson Global.

In the CultureTechLens graph Bozeman appears on the Black Fortune 500 CEOs list (CTL-L-0046) and is affiliated with C.H. Robinson (CTL-I-0167). His is the batch's logistics record, and its interest is the route: an engineer formed by lean manufacturing at Harley-Davidson and Caterpillar, retooled at Ford's service division and Amazon's freight network, and then handed the largest third-party logistics company in North America — a career that runs through the physical economy at every step, in a batch whose other chief executives run utilities, home shopping, and energy.

The sequence matters for how the graph reads him. Harley-Davidson gave him manufacturing: sixteen years across advanced manufacturing and engineering in a company whose production culture he helped convert to lean methods, after an earlier start at Caterpillar in heavy equipment. Ford moved him from making things to servicing them, in a division created around the role. Amazon moved him from vehicles to networks, building the middle-mile system connecting fulfillment centers to the delivery fleet. Each step widened the unit of operations — plant, division, network — until the C.H. Robinson appointment made the unit the company itself.

Filed on the same Black Fortune 500 CEOs list as Butler, Womack, and Rawlinson in this batch, his record completes its map of Black chief executives across the physical economy — power, energy, home shopping, and freight — industries where the product is moved, generated, or delivered rather than streamed, and where his engineering formation is the rule rather than the exception.

Sources for this record

• Dave Bozeman — Member Profile — Business Roundtable
  Claims supported: Master verification source: President and CEO of C.H. Robinson; previously Vice President of Amazon Transportation Services (2017–2022) and Vice President of Ford Motor Company's Customer Service Division; leads a company managing more than $30 billion in freight under management across 20 million shipments (figures as of the profile's date)
• David L. Bozeman — Leadership — C.H. Robinson
  Claims supported: Bozeman leads one of the world's largest logistics platforms as President and CEO of C.H. Robinson
• New C.H. Robinson CEO Appointed — Produce News
  Claims supported: Bozeman named CEO and appointed to the Board of Directors effective June 26, 2023, succeeding interim CEO Scott Anderson, who moved to chairman of the board; service on the Board of Governors of the American Red Cross and the boards of the Brookings Institution and Anderson Global
• How C.H. Robinson's CEO Acquired His Customer Obsession — Fast Company
  Claims supported: Sixteen years at Harley-Davidson leading advanced manufacturing and lean strategies; Ford's Customer Service Division; built Amazon's global middle-mile logistics network; reputation for customer obsession and for helping companies harness technology and execute digital transformations
• David Bozeman — Board of Governors Biography — American Red Cross
  Claims supported: M.S. in Engineering Management from the Milwaukee School of Engineering; B.S. in Manufacturing Design Technology from Bradley University; Caterpillar and Harley-Davidson background; C.H. Robinson scale stated as $23 billion in freight and 37 million shipments (variant figures noted in the batch index)

Citations

Published October 25, 2026, from the head-verified staged record in the Entity Depth Program (Batches 004–008). Source: CultureTechLens