Logistics veteran and former ShippIt head Dominic Culbert has joined Dyspach, in a major coup for the nascent freight industry startup.
He joins Sydney-based Dyspach in the newly created role of Head of Growth Australia and New Zealand.
Long-time school friends and serial entrepreneurs Pushpinder Bagga and Amit Kumar founded in September 2023.
Bagga developed successful products for UNSW and Macquarie Bank emigrating to Australia in 2012, while Amit recently sold his stake in Addverb, the Indian warehouse robotics company he cofounded. Reliance paid US$132 million for a 54% slice of the business in 2022.
Amit describes his latest startup as blending the best of Salesforce and Excel for the freight industry, using artificial intelligence to automate manual sales processes for freight transport providers.
Culbert’s strategic vision and leadership were instrumental in turning Shippit into multi-million-dollar global success story during his seven-year tenure. Prior to Shippit, he led logistics at MySale Group for five years
Bagga said Culbert’s expertise will be the driving force behind Dyspach’s growth in the ANZ market, delivering a price-led transformation of the freight industry.
“We are thrilled to mark this significant moment in Dyspach’s growth and welcome Dominic to our Dyspach team,” he said.
“Dominic’s leadership will undoubtedly accelerate Dispatch’s mission to help carriers grow 50 per cent faster than currently possible.”
For his part, Culbert said he was impressed by Dyspach’s focus on maximising pricing efficiency through an AI-powered CRM to tackle longstanding challenges in the freight industry.
“Like most other industries that have had to quickly adapt and mature, the freight industry has developed growing pains that we are still trying to address today,” he said.
“The challenge has been to identify the ones having the most impact in terms of inhibiting growth. This is where the Dyspach team has delivered the right mindset, the right system, and the right timing to make significant improvements in this space.”
That’s attracted Culbert to the role, as well as the software’s focus on improving efficiencies on the pricing front
“Price comes into the equation for nearly every decision a logistics supplier or shipper makes and is one of the cornerstone principles within a logistician’s ideology. There are very few systems in the market that address the inefficiencies in pricing and for high volume B2C ecommerce networks,” he said.
“Dyspach is not another system that was initially built for other industries but was repurposed. What Dyspach brings to the table is a purpose-built system that has its architecture and design all developed from a freight and logistics lens. Then when harnessing AI to identify trends and solve complex equations, it becomes a very powerful system that gives users all the tools they need to create a competitive edge.”
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