Talent News
Logistics entrepreneur and Managing Director of Innovate Freight Richard Litchfield MCILT has
become Non-Executive Director at specialist software firm CocoonFMS – extending his portfolio of
interests.
Richard has a track record in logistics spanning over 20 plus years implementing state-of-the art
freight management systems. Formerly Group IT Director at Europa Worldwide Group and Vice
President / Global Head of IS Road Logistics at Kuehne & Nagel in Switzerland, Richard has
decades of experience in transport and logistics, mainly within the technology arena.
Richard’s whole career has been focused on IT within transport and logistics. He launched a
specialist IT consultancy for freight and logistics, Innovate Freight and 2023 extended the services
to provide specialist freight and logistics recruitment through Innovate Freight Talent, which has
just debuted at Multimodal Exhibition and is also a sponsor of national campaign Generation
Logistics.
Based in Lichfield (Staffordshire), CocoonFMS ® is a logistics software provider, offering a cloud-
based state-of-the-art Transport Management System for all modes of transport to clients across
the UK.
Richard comments “I am delighted to have the opportunity to share my wealth of skills and
knowledge across the specialist technology sector for freight and logistics. Having worked with
James previously and having met with the rest of the team, we share a similar vision and
approach. Joining CocoonFMS is a perfect opportunity to share my experience and help grow the
company.”
James Blackman, Managing Partner at CocoonFMS added “We would like to welcome Richard
Litchfield as a Non-Executive Director. Richard expertise will add to our existing wealth of
knowledge and expertise of IT & Logistics. Our ambition is to be the software supplier of choice to
the supply chain and logistics industry by delivering the best technology available and we’re
hoping the Richard will help us achieving this goal.”