Daniel Monson

Chief Executive Officer States Logistics Services, Inc.

Last Reviewed: September 28, 2026

Executive Summary

Daniel Monson is Chief Executive Officer of States Logistics Services, an employee-owned third-party logistics provider based in Buena Park, California. Founded in 1958 as a small warehousing and trucking business, the company now provides warehousing, transportation, packaging and other value-added services from sites in Southern California and Arizona. It publishes a letter from Monson as CEO on its history page, and it has worked under a separate president, Ryan Donovan.

Career Highlights

• Chief Executive Officer of States Logistics Services, which signs its “Letter from the CEO” in his name.
• Quoted as CEO in the company’s own post marking its 60th year of service.
• Leads an employee-owned company: States Logistics set up its Employee Stock Ownership Plan in 2003.
• In recent years the company has deployed AI warehouse monitoring with OneTrack.AI (2023), AI-powered robotics with Contoro Robotics (2024), and voice picking and autonomous forklifts with Humro (2025), according to its published timeline.

Professional Journey

States Logistics was founded in 1958 by Richard and Jewel May, who started States Warehouses in Vernon, California with one warehouse and two trucks. It opened the Dolly Avenue warehouse in 1977 and went into Arizona in 1986. It added a 400,000 square foot warehouse in Walnut in 1991, a site in Ontario in 2001 and a distribution center and transportation terminal in Fontana in 2016. In 2003 it set up an Employee Stock Ownership Plan.

Monson is the company’s chief executive. In his letter on the company’s history page he describes a customer-focused business whose distinguishing product is “excellence in service”. States Logistics does not make or sell goods of its own; it takes care of customers’ products until they reach their final destination. In the company’s post marking 60 years of service, he is quoted as CEO speaking about its employees: “I am so proud to be a part of the team of employees here at States Logistics.”

Under his leadership the company has invested in warehouse technology. It added a fully electric truck and yard truck to its fleet in 2022. It deployed AI warehouse intelligence through OneTrack.AI in 2023 and AI-powered robotics through Contoro Robotics in 2024. In 2025 it added voice-enabled picking and autonomous forklift technology. He works alongside Ryan Donovan, the company’s President.

No first-party source gives the date he became CEO or describes his earlier career, so neither is recorded here.

Education

No education record was found in any first-party source.