Tuesday, April 30, 2019

NEXT Hires Trio Of New Execs, As It Eyes Major Expansion

Lynwood, California-based NEXT, the developer of trucking and shipping logistics technology led by CEO Lidia Yan, has hired a trio of new executives--and says it is planning to add over 200 employees this year in a major expansion. The company, which helps match truckers with freight loads, said it has named Jim Patterson as Chief Product Officer, Bobby Napiltonia as Chief Revenue Officer, and Lyndal Larkin as Head of People. Patterson was most recently Chief Product Officer at Earnest Inc, and also served at Google and YouTube. Napiltonia was most recently Executive Vice President of Sales and Strategic Partnerships at Enlightened, and also served at Twilio and Salesforce.com, in addition to Creative Technologies, BEA Systems and eMeter. Larkin was most recently Senior Vice President of People at Chef'd, and she also served at travel retailer DFS. NEXT recently scored a huge, $97M funding round from Brookfield Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and GLP.