He attended the University of Kansas and the University of Nebraska at Omaha before starting his career with Werner Enterprises, Inc in Omaha, Nebraska in 1995. He held multiple positions at Werner, the last of which was Senior Director of Operations during which he was responsible for operations for the Van, Team, and Regional divisions consisting of over 2,000 trucks. He was involved in planning, management and policy development for all of Werner’s Operations division.
Starks left Werner in 2005 and became the Vice President of Dedicated & Customer Service in Greensboro, North Carolina where he led his team to grow revenues 54% in one year while greatly improving the Dedicated division operating ratio. In 2007, Starks became the Vice President Operations for Hoosier Tradewinds in Arcadia, Indiana before moving on to New Breed Logistics in Greensboro, North Carolina in 2008. During his years at New Breed as Program Manager, he had full responsibility for all facets of program management and new client onboarding for the entire transportation business development group. He also managed the modeling and analysis teams, new client relationships and TMS implementations in both the US and Canada.
Starks then joined UniGroup Logistics in December of 2012. His proven capabilities in generating growth opportunities in logistics made him the perfect choice for the newly created position of Senior Director, Logistics. In September of 2014, Starks became Senior Vice President of Business Development for one of UniGroup’s premier logistics Agents, Safeway Moving System. Starks has been instrumental in developing and launching Safeway’s new logistics brand. Over his tenure, Safeway Logistics has grown exponentially in both top line and bottom line revenues.
