Gordon Branov

Chief Executive Officer SEKO Logistics

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Gordon Branov is Chief Executive Officer of SEKO Logistics, the global freight forwarding, ecommerce fulfilment and last-mile delivery group headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois. He took the role effective April 21, 2025, arriving at a company whose ownership had changed hands four months earlier when its lenders assumed majority control through a recapitalization, and whose chief executive seat had been filled on an interim basis in the meantime. Branov came from Maersk North America, where he was Regional Head of LTL and Final Mile, and brought more than two decades in logistics and supply chain operations built at Estes and Pilot Freight Services before that.

Career Highlights

• Appointed Chief Executive Officer of SEKO Logistics on April 17, 2025, effective April 21, succeeding Interim CEO Philippe Gilbert, who remained Chairman of the board.
• Took the role following SEKO’s December 2024 recapitalization, in which the company’s existing lenders assumed majority ownership and injected new investment to repair the balance sheet.
• Served as Regional Head of LTL and Final Mile at Maersk North America immediately before joining SEKO.
• Held operational and leadership roles at the less-than-truckload carrier Estes and at Pilot Freight Services earlier in a logistics career spanning more than twenty years.
• Based at SEKO’s global headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois, per the company’s own announcement of his hire.

Professional Journey

Branov spent the first two decades of his career in North American ground and freight operations. SEKO’s own biography records leadership roles at Pilot Freight Services and at Estes, the family-owned less-than-truckload carrier, without specifying the titles he held at either. He then moved to Maersk North America as Regional Head of LTL and Final Mile, running the Danish group’s less-than-truckload and final-mile business across the region — the role he held immediately before SEKO recruited him.

The company he joined was in the middle of a reset. On December 11, 2024 SEKO announced that it had closed a recapitalization in which its existing lenders assumed majority ownership, describing the new owners as premier global financial institutions and the transaction as a substantial improvement to its balance sheet. Chief Executive Officer James Gagne departed at that point, and Philippe Gilbert, formerly of UPS, became Chairman and Interim Chief Executive Officer effective January 1, 2025. The same announcement brought in Hans Moller as Chief Financial Officer.

SEKO named Branov permanent Chief Executive Officer on April 17, 2025, effective the 21st, with Gilbert stepping back to Chairman of the board. SEKO’s global team page still carried Branov as Chief Executive Officer when this profile was reviewed on September 19, 2026, alongside a leadership bench that includes Moller as Chief Financial Officer and Ian Oliver as President of North America Operations.

Education

Brock University

SEKO’s own bio and its appointment release both state only that Branov holds a degree from Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. Neither the degree type nor the field of study is disclosed by any source found, and neither is asserted here.