Mr. Clair, a Partner at Norbridge, heads up the firm's Chicago office. Over the past eighteen years, Mr. Clair has participated in nearly 200 consulting assignments with dozens of clients. He specializes in advising clients in all aspects of transportation, logistics and supply chain management.

Most of Mr. Clair’s experience has been assisting transportation service providers to grow and improve their financial performance, and in assisting shippers and 3PL’s to design and manage their supply chains. He also has considerable experience advising suppliers to the transportation industry, including equipment and materials manufacturers, information service providers, and providers of leasing and other financial services.

He is a recognized expert in the fields of transportation pricing, new product and service development, activity based costing, operations and process improvement. He has assisted clients in rail, trucking, parcel, ocean, barge, and air freight. Recently he has been active restructuring logistics operations in light of the changing regulatory environment. Mr. Clair has managed several joint shipper/carrier/receiver supply chain redesign initiatives.

Mr. Clair has consulted to nearly every major railroad in North America and several other railroads around the world, and is a recognized expert in transportation equipment issues. He has co-authored the suppler section for Railway Age’s annual outlook issues, co-authored a paper on LTL pricing, and is a frequent speaker at Northwestern University's Transportation Center and SMC3’s annual meetings. Other recent speaking engagements have included the National Coal Transportation Association, American Coal Council, Texas Christian University’s annual supply chain forum, and Logistics Management’s 2006 annual outlook cover story webcast. He is regularly interviewed by various other publications.

Recently, Mr. Clair has participated in energy supply chain operational redesign and productivity enhancement initiatives. He also co-authored a research initiative and paper that has been featured in several energy publications on the preparedness of the coal supply chain for impending growth.

Prior to joining Norbridge, he held senior positions at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman). Before becoming a consultant, Mr. Clair was Director of Business Development for IU International (now Landstar). He also held several management positions at Union Pacific Railroad, was a financial analyst for a regional truck line and headed marketing and sales for a commuter airline.

Mr. Clair received a BS (Cum Laude) from the University of Maryland with a double major in Finance and Transportation/Logistics, and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business, University of Minnesota.