Dustin Marshall

CEO, Hazel’s Expedited Freight & Titan Logistics | Former Dallas ISD Trustee (Governance Oversight: ~$2B budget, ~20K employees) | Board Member in Logistics, Education, Non-Profits

Dallas, Texas, United States

About

I’m a CEO and operator in transportation and logistics, leading Hazel’s Expedited Freight and Titan Logistics Solutions. I bring a combination of private-sector execution and public-sector governance, with board leadership experience including serving as a Trustee for the Dallas Independent School District. As a Trustee, I helped oversee an organization with a ~$1.8B annual budget, ~20,000 employees, and ~145,000 students, with responsibilities spanning performance oversight, stakeholder management, and long-term planning. Board value I bring: • Operational leadership in time-sensitive, high-accountability environments • Risk management mindset (service reliability, safety, compliance, disruption readiness) • Strategy + transformation experience (including prior top-tier management consulting) • Talent and culture leadership across distributed workforces • Governance experience balancing performance, transparency, and stakeholder priorities Board interests / committee fit: Operations, Risk & Safety, Strategy, Compensation & Talent, Audit-readiness / performance oversight MBA, Kellogg School of Management | BS Economics, Wharton Dallas-based | Open to independent director and advisory board roles

Experience

  • Chief Executive Officer at Hazel's Expedited Freight
    Aug 2011 - Present · 14 yrs 11 mos

    CEO leading full P&L and enterprise strategy for a regional expedited freight carrier with several hundred trucks across five Texas locations. Led a complete turnaround and built a scalable platform for sustained growth through M&A, commercial transformation, and service expansion. Key impact: • Delivered a full business turnaround, driving >10x revenue growth and >20x profit improvement • Built and executed a growth strategy centered on targeted acquisitions and integration • Evaluated 200+ competitors and completed 7 acquisitions across major Texas markets and Oklahoma City; successfully integrated teams and operations • Renegotiated pricing with top ~100 customers, doubling profit margins among top accounts • Launched and scaled a new sales/marketing engine, adding 5,000+ new accounts and reactivating 1,000+ dormant accounts • Created and launched a truck brokerage business (“Titan Logistics”) to expand service offerings and capture incremental customer wallet share • Established strategic carrier partnerships to expand geographic coverage and improve network resilience • Built a culture and community involvement program to strengthen employee engagement and local impact

  • Chief Executive Officer at Titan Logistics Solutions
    Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    Founded and scaled Titan Logistics Solutions, a technology-enabled freight brokerage built from the ground up. Grew the business from a start up with one employee to a mid-market brokerage firm with a team of Account Managers and Carrier Representatives by combining a disciplined outbound sales engine with data-driven carrier and customer operations. Key impact: • Built the company from scratch by establishing core processes across sales, carrier operations, customer success, and finance • Achieved industry leading margins via streamlined processes, technology, and pricing strategies • Developed a repeatable outbound sales strategy (targeting, messaging, cadence, CRM discipline) to build a durable book of business • Leveraged technology to improve quote speed, shipment visibility, and execution consistency across customers and carriers • Built and led a high-performance team across commercial and operational roles, with clear KPI accountability • Implemented performance dashboards to monitor margin, service, and customer retention and improve decision-making • Managed full P&L ownership, vendor relationships, and scalable operating rhythm to support continued growth

  • Vice Chairman & Board Member of Power Tech Elite (Insurance Captive) at Alternative Risk Underwriting
    Jan 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

    One of five-member Executive Committee tasked with oversight of the PowerTech Elite insurance captive that helps ~100 mid-sized trucking companies finance their business insurance risk through a uniquely structured “member-owned” group captive reinsurance company. Vice Chair of the Board. Former Chair of the Claims/Loss Control Committee.

  • Board Member at The Commit Partnership
    Oct 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

    The Commit Partnership is a collective impact organization composed of hundreds of partners across Dallas County and the state of Texas supported by a dedicated 'backbone' staff of 60+ professionals. Together, the Partnership cultivates a collaborative educational ecosystem across school systems, higher education institutions, city, county, and state governments, foundations, non-profits, employers and workforce agencies. The Partnership believes that through our collective actions, Dallas County, which is the 8th largest county in the United States and educates 10% of Texas and 1% of the nation's students, can be an inclusive and prosperous region where economic opportunity is shared equitably rather than predicted by race, place and socioeconomic status. Our Partnership's 'true north' goal is that by 2040, at least half of all 25-34 year old residents, irrespective of race, will earn a living wage. To increase living wage attainment, we must equitably increase educational success aligned with high demand jobs, maximizing the cumulative impact from providing a quality early education to ensuring that every student graduates high school ready for college, career, and/or military and able to accesses and completes a strong postsecondary education.

  • Board Member at The Educator Collective
    Oct 2025 - Present · 9 mos

    The Educator Collective supports, develops and sustains educators and school leaders who strengthen our schools and broader communities. We help North Texas school teams lead with resilience, purpose and innovation, so they can continue the work they love and make a difference for each child they serve.