Leadership Bios

W. Gregory Lehmkuhl

Executive Vice President - Operations, Con-way Freight Inc.  

W. Gregory "Greg" Lehmkuhl is executive vice president of operations for Con-way Freight Inc. Con-way Freight is the less-than-truckload (LTL) subsidiary of Con-way Inc. (NYSE:CNW), a $4.7 billion diversified freight transportation and logistics services company headquartered in San Mateo, Calif. Con-way delivers industry-leading services through its primary operating companies of  Con-way Freight, Menlo Worldwide Logistics and Con-way Truckload. These operating units provide high-performance, day-definite less-than-truckload (LTL), full truckload and multimodal freight transportation; as well as logistics, warehousing and supply chain management services; and trailer manufacturing. Con-way Inc. and its subsidiaries operate from more than 500 locations across North America and in 17 countries across five continents. 

As Con way Freight's senior operating executive, Mr. Lehmkuhl is responsible for strategic planning and execution of Con-way Freight's operating network, process design, analysis and implementation; network configuration and production efficiency. He also directs related change management, employee engagement and leadership development activities in the operations area designed to enhance the end-to-end customer experience.  He reports to John G. Labrie, Con-way Freight's president.

Mr. Lehmkuhl joined Con-way Freight in August 2008 from sister company Menlo Worldwide Logistics.  As vice president of Menlo's Automotive Industry Group (AIG), he oversaw global strategic development, solution engineering and implementation, sales, pricing, customer service and account management.  Over a seven-year tenure, he directed AIG's growth from start-up to over 1,000 employees serving a diverse group of automotive manufacturing and supplier customers with logistics and transportation management operations across the United States and 13 countries worldwide.   He also was instrumental in Menlo's adoption of Lean methodologies for continuous improvement, since 2003 leading the design and transformation at Menlo of customer and employee engagement programs to adopt Lean operating processes and practices. 

Before joining Menlo in 2001 as director of operations, Mr. Lehmkuhl spent several years in global logistics and operations management with Delphi Automotive Systems. For Delphi, he managed transportation, warehousing and customs brokerage for a $13 billion manufacturing operation spanning 65 plants in 26 countries. Prior to Delphi he worked for Penske Logistics, where he launched Penske's first automotive lean logistics operation, and later was a line manager in engineering and logistics planning for the company's largest automotive customer.

He is a graduate of Michigan State University, Lansing, Mich., where he earned a bachelor's degree in business with emphasis on materials and logistics management.  He subsequently earned his MBA from Oakland University in Rochester, Mich.

Mr. Lehmkuhl also is a 2004 recipient of the prestigious Raymond F. O'Brien Award of Excellence, an honor conferred upon exceptional employees by the then-CNF organization for leadership and professional accomplishment.  Today, the tradition of the O'Brien award is carried on in the Con-way organization as the Con-way CEO Constellation Award.

He is based at Con-way Freight's headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan