Teri Zimmerman

Teri Zimmerman is a logistics, intermodal transportation, agriculture business development, sales, marketing, operations leadership, and executive management professional with experience in commercial sales, ocean freight, carrier selection, U.S. business development, division management, general management, team leadership, and strategic growth. She currently serves as VP of Sales at Tri-Cities Intermodal, where she manages ocean carrier relationships with depot status for eight carriers and oversees grain transloading while moving containerized cargo by rail to the ports of Seattle and Tacoma. Her background includes 18 years as a farmer followed by managing a trucking company, eight years in direct shipment for an exporter of peas and lentils, and 13 years at Ray-Mont Logistics, where she started an NVO freight forwarding division, built the U.S. division from her home, established a transloading division in Seattle and a facility in South Carolina, and grew a team of 35 that moved 25,000 containers in her final year there. She holds an AA degree from Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake and a BA degree in accounting from Western Governors University completed in 2013, after beginning studies at Eastern Washington University.