Ken Carey, CCLP
General Manager, Commercial
St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation

Ken Carey joined the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation as Manager of Business Development in November of 2017 where he supported the Highway H2O Community to develop logistics and transportation solutions leveraging the Seaway system. Ken is now the Sr. Manager Real Estate Business Development. In this role Ken is responsible for the sales and service delivery teams that manage the hundred of clients on over 20,000 acres within the Seaway's Real Property portfolio. Prior to the Seaway, Ken was with CP Rail for 14 years in increasingly senior sales positions and has handled a variety of commodities and customers in both inter-modal and carload and his final role at CP was the National Account Manager, Retail, where Ken handled the largest portfolio within the intermodal team at CP.

Ken also spent 5 years with the CPLS group (Canadian Pacific Logistic Solutions).  Ken was the commercial lead for the Ontario team and managed a team of solution design specialists tasked with growing this specialised non-asset division within CP.  Under Ken's leadership, the team secured several long-term contracts, including the 3rd largest beverage distributor globally, and one of Canada's fastest growing retailers. These two accounts have generated over $150M in gross billings for CPLS (and counting). Ken’s most recent position was Director, Business Development at Wheels International.  Wheels, part of the Radiant Group, is a large third-party logistics firm specialising in truck, rail, warehouse, and freight forwarding.  During Ken’s time at Wheels, he managed the largest portfolio within the company. Ken is a graduate from McMaster University and holds professional designations in sales and is a proud holder of a CCLP designation. Ken lives in Hamilton, is married, and the father of 2 expensive university students.