Phil Brink is the Head of Fraud Media and Education at FreightWaves and the CEO and co-founder of The Bannon Report, a freight risk intelligence platform that helps companies verify partners and prevent losses before freight moves. He began his logistics career in 2013 and spent more than a decade owning and operating a brokerage, where firsthand exposure to organized cargo theft and fraud led him to develop prevention solutions for the industry. His work focuses on cargo theft trends, identity risk, and emerging threats across the transportation ecosystem. Reach him at phil.brink@firecrown.com.