Get To Know Remo Picchietti:
Remo Picchietti is a global business leader and educator with a record of building enterprise value through strategic manufacturing improvements, organic growth, and corporate development (M&A). He currently leads the strategy and corporate development efforts for The Boler Company, a family enterprise with diversified holdings around the globe. Remo was the owner and CEO of Hong Kong-based WLG Logistics (now Tigers Logistics, part of Italy-based JAS) and has extensive experience in China, India, Southeast Asia, and Europe, with sector expertise in manufacturing and logistics/supply chain. Earlier in his career, he was the third-generation owner of a manufacturing business, which he sold to Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC).
Remo serves as an outside (non-family) director (and Chairman of the Board) at family companies Carl Buddig & Company, a fourth-generation food manufacturer, and recently served at Wesco, a third-generation operator of convenience stores to which it provides 24/7 delivery of food and other goods from its integrated food manufacturing and warehouse network. Also, for more than two decades, Remo had taught undergraduate and graduate-level business courses at Chicago area colleges and universities, twice earning Faculty-of-the-Year accolades. He holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a BS from Drake University.
