Chris Easter was named Interim Chief Executive Officer in August 2019, and has served as Chief Operating Officer since joining Daseke in January 2019. Easter brings Daseke more than 30 years of operational leadership serving in key transportation and logistics roles with the United States Army, Walmart and Schneider National. For the past six years, he served as CEO of Keen Transport, a specialized transportation, warehouse, and logistics company focused on serving the industrial equipment market. During more than a decade with Walmart, he was responsible for overseeing the transportation of goods from around the world. Easter graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point; he then served with distinction in the U.S. Army, where he was a leader in heavy machinery logistics. Easter was awarded the Bronze Star during Operation Desert Storm. Believing in giving back to the industry, he serves the industry on the Board of Directors for the Specialized Carriers and Rigging Association (SC&RA).

Mr. Blount has served as Senior Vice President since joining the company in June 2017. Prior to Daseke, he spent more than two decades in the financial industry including corporate lending roles with JPMorganChase and international banking syndicate Credit Agricole. Mr. Blount also helped establish the Dallas commercial banking division for CapitalOne Bank and served as Area President for Sovereign Bank. During his time in banking, he worked closely with Don Daseke on several of Mr. Daseke’s business ventures. Mr. Blount is an active member of American MENSA and a published writer, including the critically acclaimed holiday book The Three Christmases of William Spencer and the thriller novels Hostile Takeover and Second Son (learn more about his writing at derekblount.com). He is also an avid supporter of the arts, having served as both President and Chairman of the Board for WaterTower Theatre, a not-for-profit professional theater company in the DFW area. A Texas native, Mr. Blount received both his B.B.A. in Finance and his M.S. in Marketing from Texas A&M University.

Mr. Roy has served as General Counsel since joining the company in September 2017. Mr. Roy brings over 17 years’ experience in private practice and in-house counsel positions at Fortune 500 publicly traded companies. Prior to joining Daseke, he was Global Transaction Counsel at Whole Foods Market, General Counsel at Hotels.com, an Expedia Company, and Counsel at Texas Instruments. His private practice experience includes mergers and acquisitions, corporate securities, employment law, and intellectual property law. A Texas native, Mr. Roy received a B.S. Molecular Biology, B.S Biochemistry and his Juris Doctorate all from The University of Texas at Austin.

Matt Cacace has been with Daseke since 2014 where he served as the Chief Operating Officer for Smokey Point Distributing, a Daseke operating company based in Seattle. In September 2018, he became Daseke’s Senior Vice President of Business Systems. He provides oversight of cyber security, information systems and infrastructure, business process management and IT SOX compliance. Mr. Cacace has been in the industry for almost 40 years and has extensive knowledge of domestic and international transportation operations as well as technology and logistics applications. He also held previous executive management and C-level positions with McLeod Software and U.S. Xpress Enterprises. Mr. Cacace earned a bachelor’s in Management Science from CW Post College in New York.