CSA Group · Leadership

The people running CSA Group.

Three decades of operators, entrepreneurs and engineers. The team setting strategy and running the day-to-day across procurement, control tower, global logistics and the Cargoo platform.

Executive Leadership

Group leadership team

The executives running CSA Group's four brands — accountable end-to-end for the services our shippers rely on.

Vincent Ducaroir, Chief Executive Officer

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Vincent Ducaroir

Chief Executive Officer

Vincent leads CSA Group and Cargoo from Wollerau, setting strategy across the group's four brands. With more than a decade in supply chain and SaaS leadership, he stepped into the CEO role in late 2023 and is responsible for the day-to-day running of procurement, control tower, forwarding and platform.

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Ashot Arakeljan, Chief Product & Technology Officer

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Ashot Arakeljan

Chief Product & Technology Officer

Ashot owns product and engineering across the group, including the Cargoo platform that powers every CSA service. His background spans web development, product management and large-scale logistics IT at companies including Kuehne + Nagel, and he has been with Cargoo since its earliest days.

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Patrick Kräuchi, Chief Procurement Officer

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Patrick Kräuchi

Chief Procurement Officer

Patrick runs ocean freight procurement for the group, with three decades of carrier negotiation behind him. His team prices 465K+ TEU each year for CSA's shippers and feeds market intelligence into the Cargoo platform's pooling and rate engines.

Mario Walther, Chief Commercial Officer

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Mario Walther

Chief Commercial Officer

Mario leads commercial strategy and client relationships across CSA Group's four brands. He is responsible for the way enterprise shippers buy procurement, control tower, forwarding and platform services as a single coordinated offering.

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Jens Kalter

Chief Operating Officer

Profile coming soon.

Justine Violante, Chief Marketing Officer

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Justine Violante

Chief Marketing Officer

Justine is a strategic product and marketing leader with 17+ years across B2B tech and B2C lifestyle, including portfolio and GTM roles in the Atlassian ecosystem. She joined as Group CMO in late 2025 to lead brand, demand and positioning for CSA Group and Cargoo.

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Juri Bailer, Global Head of Controlling

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Juri Bailer

Global Head of Controlling

A senior finance executive with more than 20 years of leadership experience, Juri previously held Country and Area Head of Finance roles at Panalpina across multiple regions. He oversees finance and corporate affairs for the group, partnering with the CEO on growth and capital decisions.

Laura Padua, Group Head of People & Culture

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Laura Padua

Group Head of People & Culture

Laura leads talent, people operations and culture for the group's seventeen offices worldwide. She previously held senior HR Business Partner roles, most recently at ThomasLloyd Group, and focuses on continuous performance and growing leaders inside the business.

Jahn Widmer, Chief Financial Officer

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Jahn Widmer

Chief Financial Officer

Jahn is CFO (and acting CIO) of CSA Group and Legal Counsel for Cargoo. A senior, entrepreneurial executive with 33+ years across commodity, trade, food and transport industries, he brings deep international experience from years lived and worked in the Far East and the UK.

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Board of Directors

Founder & Chairman

Roland Maier, Founder & Chairman of the Board

Roland Maier

Founder & Chairman of the Board

Founded Commodity Supplies AG in Wollerau in 1997 and has spent the last three decades building it into a seventeen-office global group spanning Europe, the Americas and Asia. An entrepreneur and private pilot, Roland launched Cargoo to bring the operational know-how of CSA together with a modern platform for ocean freight.

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We're hiring across procurement, control tower, forwarding and the Cargoo platform.