Who Founded XPO?

Michael Welch co-founded Express-1, an expedited ground carrier based in southwest Michigan, in 1989 and ran it as CEO. After Segmentz Inc. acquired Express-1 in 2004 he became president and later CEO of the combined company, which was renamed Express-1 Expedited Solutions in 2006 and became XPO Logistics in 2011. He died in 2019. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).

Keith Avery co-founded Express-1 Expedited Solutions in 1989 (which Bradley Jacobs later acquired and aggressively transformed into XPO Logistics). Avery built the highly critical, foundational rapid-expedited trucking network that served as the initial, tiny base for Jacobs's absolutely massive, multi-billion dollar global acquisition spree. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).