Jay Silberkleit

Chief Information Officer XPO

Last Reviewed: September 18, 2026

Executive Summary

Jay Silberkleit is Chief Information Officer of XPO, the North American less-than-truckload carrier, and one of the company’s longest-serving technologists. He arrived in 2012, when XPO was barely a company at all - a small freight brokerage that Bradley Jacobs had just bought as a platform for acquisition - and spent the following decade building the systems that made a roll-up behave like one business. That work included the digital brokerage platform, the piece of XPO most often cited as proof that the company was a technology business rather than a trucking one. He took the CIO role in late 2022 in an unusually direct succession: his predecessor, Mario Harik, was promoted to chief executive of the LTL company left behind when the brokerage arm was spun off as RXO, and Silberkleit stepped into the seat Harik vacated.

Career Highlights

• Chief Information Officer of XPO, leading the technology organization of a major North American less-than-truckload carrier.
• Named CIO effective on completion of the RXO spin-off in late 2022, succeeding Mario Harik when Harik became chief executive.
• Joined XPO in 2012 as Vice President of Enterprise Architecture, shortly after the company’s founding.
• Promoted to Senior Vice President of Technology in 2021, with responsibility for optimization initiatives in less-than-truckload.
• Instrumental in creating XPO’s technology ecosystem, including its digital brokerage platform.
• Earlier technology roles at Waste Management, Inc. as Principal Software Engineer, and at Oakleaf Waste Management and Innovative Systems.

Professional Journey

Silberkleit’s background is in enterprise systems for network businesses - operations where the difficulty is not any single transaction but the coordination of a very large number of them across a distributed physical footprint. He worked at Innovative Systems and at Oakleaf Waste Management, and came to XPO from Waste Management, Inc., where he was a Principal Software Engineer. Waste collection is an instructive training ground for freight: the same routing, density and asset-utilisation problems, with the same unforgiving economics.

He joined XPO in 2012 as Vice President of Enterprise Architecture. The timing matters. XPO had only just been created as an acquisition platform, and the strategy over the following years was to buy dozens of companies and weld them together - which meant that enterprise architecture was not a back-office discipline but the mechanism by which the strategy either worked or did not. Over that decade he was central to building what XPO came to call its technology ecosystem, most visibly the digital brokerage platform that let shippers and carriers transact without a broker on the phone, and which became the company’s principal claim to being a technology business.

In 2021 he was named Senior Vice President of Technology, taking on optimization initiatives in the less-than-truckload segment - pricing, network design, dock and linehaul efficiency, the areas where marginal software improvements translate directly into operating ratio.

The following year XPO separated its brokerage business, floating it as RXO, and reorganized around the LTL carrier that remained. Mario Harik, who had been XPO’s chief information officer since the early days, was promoted to chief executive of that company, and Silberkleit was named to succeed him as CIO, effective on completion of the spin-off. Harik, announcing the appointment, described him as a driving force behind the success of XPO’s proprietary technology since the company’s earliest days. He continues in the role, with XPO’s technology strategy centred on proprietary AI and data analytics applied to the LTL network.

Education

No education could be established for Jay Silberkleit. XPO’s own biography of him states none, and an education claim circulating in search results is in fact that of his predecessor and current chief executive, Mario Harik, rather than his own.