Mark K. Knoy, President and CEO
Mark Knoy was named President and Chief Executive Officer of ACL in August 2011.
Prior to joining the company, he was Vice President of American Electric Power's Fuel, Emissions and Logistics Group and President of AEP River Operations, having joined AEP with its 2001 purchase of MEMCO Barge Line. At MEMCO, Knoy served as Senior Vice President, Boat Operations from 1999 to 2001; Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing from 1996 to 1999; Vice President, Transportation and Logistics from 1995 to 1996; and Southern Regional Sales Manager from 1994 to 1996. From 1984 to 1994, he was owner/operator of The Mark Twain Towing Company and Delmar Marine, Inc., Pekin, Illinois. Knoy began his career in 1973 working aboard towboats on the inland waterways as a deck hand and then as a captain.
He attended Lindenwood University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Knoy serves as: a director of the Corps of Engineer's Inland Waterways Users Board, a Board of Trustees' member for both the Coast Guard Foundation and The Seamen's Church Institute and their Center for Maritime Education and Ministry on the River, Vice Chairman of National Waterways Foundation, board member for the H.T. Pott Inland Waterways Library at the University of Missouri - St. Louis, and Treasurer of the Marine Transportation Council. He is a past Chairman of both the Waterways Council, Inc. and the Midwest Region of the American Waterways Operators.
David J. Huls, SVP and Chief Financial Officer
David J. Huls was named Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of ACL in August 2011.
Prior to joining the Company, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of PBH Marine Group, LLC, a Platinum Equity portfolio company, based in Bloomington, Minnesota. PBH Marine was formed by Platinum Equity to acquire certain assets of Genmar Holdings, Inc., one of the world’s largest designers and manufacturers of fiberglass recreational power boats, where Huls had served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since 2004. From 1996 to 2004, Huls was a managing director of Hidden Creek Industries, a private equity investor and industrial management company that focused on acquiring and growing businesses in the automotive supply base. Huls began his career at Arthur Andersen & Co. in 1987 as a member of its audit and business advisory services practice, where he served a variety of companies in the industrial, food manufacturing and technology sectors.
Huls received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration – Accounting from the University of South Dakota in 1987.
Dawn R. Landry, SVP and General Counsel
Dawn R. Landry was named Senior Vice President and General Counsel for ACL in May, 2008. Prior to joining the company, she was Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Formula Telecom Solutions, Inc., a provider of operating, customer management, billing systems and solutions for telecommunications service and content providers. She was formerly an attorney with Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP, a commercial law firm representing clients throughout the U.S., and was also an attorney with Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin, LLP, a commercial law firm in the Midwest.
Robert M. Blocker, SVP Sales and Customer Service
Robert M. Blocker was named Senior Vice President Sales and Customer Service for ACL in September 2011.
Prior to joining the company, he was Director of Business Development for AEP River Operations. His 16-year tenure with AEP began as Eastern Regional Sales Manager with MEMCO Barge Line, which was purchased by AEP in 2001. He then served in the leadership roles of General Sales Manager, Assistant Vice President of Sales; Senior Vice President Sales and Logistics; and Senior Vice President of Planning and Business Development.
Blocker has returned to ACL, where he began his inland marine career in 1988 as a Coal Sales Representative and then gained experience in freight sales in the agricultural, export coal, and petroleum coke sectors of the industry.
He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Louisville.
In recent years, Blocker has also served on the Executive Board of the Mississippi Valley Transport and Trade Council and on the Transportation Industry Council for the St Louis Federal Reserve Bank.