Joe Leccesse

Chief Operating Officer Customized Distribution Services Inc.

Last Reviewed: September 28, 2026

Executive Summary

Joe Leccesse is Chief Operating Officer of Customized Distribution Services (CDS), a contract third-party logistics company headquartered in Wharton, New Jersey. CDS operates about 2 million square feet of warehousing across New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Missouri and California, and specialises in food and beverage and consumer durables. In August 2026 its management partnered with LongueVue Capital and Lake Ten Capital Partners to recapitalise the company. Lake Ten credited Leccesse with bringing it to CDS, and he was one of four executives named as working on the transaction.

Career Highlights

• Chief Operating Officer of Customized Distribution Services, a third-party logistics provider founded in 1996.
• Introduced Lake Ten Capital Partners to CDS. Lake Ten’s managing partner thanked him by name when the recapitalisation was announced on 18 August 2026.
• Worked on the transaction alongside President and CEO Alberto Guerra, CFO Elise Adams and HR vice president Ben Mera.

Professional Journey

Leccesse runs operations at CDS, which was founded in 1996 and has grown from its New Jersey base into a coast-to-coast network. It runs warehouses dedicated to single customers and shared multi-client warehouses. Its sites include food-grade warehousing with food-safety and supply-chain-security programmes, and it handles business-to-business and direct-to-consumer fulfilment, inventory management and distribution. Besides the Wharton headquarters it has sites in South Brunswick, New Jersey; Allentown, Pennsylvania; Savannah, Georgia; Hazelwood, Missouri; and Stockton, California. It describes many of its customer relationships as spanning decades.

CDS’s announcement of 18 August 2026 marked a change of ownership structure. LongueVue Capital, a New Orleans private equity firm, and Lake Ten Capital Partners of West Palm Beach partnered with the management team to recapitalise the business and provide growth capital, with Bank United providing senior debt. LongueVue described CDS as its eighth transportation and logistics platform and Lake Ten as its first platform investment of any kind. The release gave Leccesse a particular role in the deal: Lake Ten’s managing partner, Paul Psak, thanked “CDS COO Joe Leccesse for introducing us to the Company”. Leccesse, CFO Elise Adams and HR vice president Ben Mera were named as having worked on the transaction with chief executive Alberto Guerra.

No first-party or primary source was found for when he joined CDS or for his earlier career.

Education

No education record was found in a first-party or primary source.