Cyrus L Gray, Jr. has over twenty-five (25) years of experience managing supply chain platforms in Africa, Europe, and the United States. He has worked across areas in civil aviation encompassing airport development at Equatorial Guinea’s Obiang Nguema International Airport, Liberia’s Roberts International and the Austin Bergstrom International; air freight and passenger logistics at Chicago O’Hare and multiple seaports operations and development in Africa (Port Harcourt, Freeport of Monrovia, Port of Gambia, Port of Lome), Europe (Breman Haven Car Terminal) and the United States. He was part of a term working under contract with the International Management Corporation of Houston to support the structural reengineering of four US Gulf Coast Ports to realign their depth and basins for the accommodation of larger vessels out of the Pacific trade as a result of an increase in the size of the Panama Canal. He has served as CEO for the freight forwarding company Giltam Integrated Logistics out of Houston and had a span managing US-donated health commodities to Liberia as USAID Supply Chain Advisor. Cyrus Gray is a maritime expert and author of several white papers. He is the published author of the book, Negro Nation. He is a graduate of the University of Houston College of Technology with a Master of Science from the acclaimed Technology Project Management for Logistics Program (2006). He is also a product of the apex maritime school of learning in Malmo, Sweden, The World Maritime University, from which he holds a Master of Science in Maritime Affairs with a concentration in Port and Shipping Management (2000). He is married with four children.