President of Tradebridge Consulting, Ford has more than 43 years of experience in the world of international trade. Most recently, Ford has headed a company’s corporate global compliance department, serving its customers all around the world. For the past 25 years, he has worked with and served as an advocate for some of the world’s leading companies, interacting with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Commerce/Census Bureau, in the development, piloting, and automation of import and export programs. Among his other affiliations, Mr. Ford served on various boards of U.S. trade associations and has served with Customs as a member of the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC), was a member of the American Chemistry Council’s Responsible Care Committee, and chaired the Mid-Atlantic District Export Council. He also teaches an MBA international logistics course at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.” 

A Fox School of Business Alum (class of 2017), Sirkin has been working been working in the customs and global trade for the past 9 years. As an intern at Samuel Shapiro & Sons, Beny has worked as the first analyst at customs brokerage houses Cardinal Trade Associates and INLT (Amazon acq.), as well as doing in-house brokerage on the Global Trade and Compliance team at URBN. Most recently, after acquiring her customs brokerage license three years ago, she is leveraging her trade law knowledge on the Trade Management team at Flexport as a senior trade advisory associate and HTS classification manager.