Board of
Directors
Stavros is one of the first members who joined the CCA in 2003.
Stavros Evangelakakis began working for Cargolux in 1989, working in various positions including reservations, sales, marketing, and corporate marketing, before returning to sales. He is heavily involved in promoting the Cargolux name and transporting temperature-sensitive commodities together with the specially set up internal team “Keep Cool”.
Stavros’ goal is to promote awareness of how to transport temperature-sensitive goods in the supply chain, particularly in the Pharma sector of the air cargo supply chain.
Natalie is COO at Validaide, a SaaS platform for digital risk management of global pharma distribution networks. She has spent over 20 years in supply chain, including over a decade of experience in the Food and FMCG industries, including at Ahold and Nike, where she was responsible for European retail planning and distribution. She is currently COO at Validaide, where she started 5 years ago and is responsible for internal operations and organizing the platform’s implementation at global pharmaceutical manufacturers, global forwarders and other customers.
Vijan Chetty is the current General Manager of the Coastal Division within the Perishable Products Export Control Board (PPECB). He has fulfilled various roles within the PPECB since he joined in 1998.
His current responsibilities include the management of product quality inspections, cold chain services, protocols and standards for cold chain, export certification, phytosanitary certification and research and innovation.
He is a member of several forums and advisory boards within South Africa. Vijan was part of a South African delegation responsible for the bench marking of refrigerated trucks within Germany and France, inspections of tablet technology within Netherlands and reviewing the perishable logistical value chain within ports activities within Spain.
Chiara has years of experience in logistics with a specialism in biopharma and thelife sciences industry. She has has over 15 years of successful experience in the contract logistics and healthcare supply chain industry. Chiara is an acknowledged specialist in implementing end-to-end supply chain solutions for global vaccine businesses.
Gerton is a Dutch national with 35 years of experience in the air cargo industry. He worked for KLM Cargo at various places in the world and gathered experience in perishable and pharmaceutical logistics before changing to the airport cargo handling sector.
Gerton was the Managing Director of Dusseldorf Airport Cargo for 12 years, a 100% subsidiary of Dusseldorf Airport. One of their main focuses is to offer first class pharmaceutical handling for a myriad of manufacturers of pharmaceutical products in the State of North Rhine Westphalia (NRW).
Since his retirement from Dusseldorf Airport in 2020, Gerton founded Energy in Process GmbH, where he consults for the air cargo community.
Working together to improve the temperature-sensitive supply chain to reduce food loss and waste in the perishables sector as well as benefiting the pharma community.