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Amar More, a co-founder and CEO of Kale
Logistics Solutions has been in the center of the major revolution in
the way airports handle cargo for some time now. He burst upon the scene,
fresh as Listerine, over a decade ago, putting up the system that changed
the way the Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International Airport moves air
cargo forever.
Amar, who is true to the cause and because
he loves it, makes his home with wife and children in Atlanta. Here he
shares some thoughts for 2025 and also our question for today asking about
industry leadership.
We
are very proud that we will be building the very first Airport Cargo Community
systems in Africa (in Mozambique) and South America (in Bogota).
With these, we now passionately take our mission of connecting communities
to most continents globally covering the North America, South America,
Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Our customer base has now expanded
to around 45 countries and most importantly we continue to offer challenging
and interesting work to our team members who are now spread across 12
countries globally. We now have a very talented team at the “C”
level who bring in diverse experience and more passion to our organization
building efforts.
Objectives 2025
This year of 2025 Kale will focus on growing
our existing community systems and rolling out more use cases to our existing
customers. With a global footprint in place we will focus on developing
deeper relationships with our existing customers and helping them move
forward in their digital journeys. We are also looking at inorganic growth
opportunities and will acquire companies who provide more value to our
existing customers. e-commerce will be a big growth area for us. Our e-commerce
platform is very unique and helps the community in addressing the challenges
being faced in complying with the growing customer expectations and ever
changing regulations. We are expanding our reach to the BCO community
with our unique Logistics & Customs Control Tower (LCCT) solution,
which provides the importers and exporters to connect with the logistics
community for efficient international supply and demand chain management.
AI will be a big focus area for us. We have already developed our own
Gen AI platform called KAITe (Kale’s AI Technology) which is really
helping our team phenomenally.
In the Air Everywhere
This year, we are setting up our own AI
Excellence Center in the city of Pune in India. We had built several AI
use cases in our products which will grow manifold this year. We will
help our customers in developing their own AI-based differentiators. We
are already engaged with a few marquee customers on this journey.
All in all, 2025 is going to be a year of
building on the strong global foundation created, enriching our offerings
through organic product development and inorganic product growth and of
course, AI.
What Is Leadership?
Leadership is the ability to guide, inspire,
and influence individuals or groups toward achieving a common goal. So
clearly the leader should have the Vision. Vision for himself, the team,
and the society in general. Next is the ability to inspire. To get extraordinary
output out of common people, it’s not just perspiration but inspiration
that is needed. So aligning the group to the common goal needs an ability
to inspire them through great communication skills. Again, on the path
to achievement of a goal, there are always challenges and failures; so
the
leader needs to be resilient (as they say the only person who never failed
is the one who never tried anything). Most importantly, the group/the
team/the society needs to look up to the leader so Integrity to me is
of paramount importance when talking about leadership.
Editor's Note: Look for Donna Mullins of Kale Logistics Solutions
at AirCargo 2025 in Dallas. |