EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT TEAM

Dave Parrott joined Ports of Indiana as Chief Operating Officer in January 2025, following eight years as Vice President of Operations – East Coast, Gulf, and Great Lakes with Metro Ports, the oldest stevedoring company in the U.S.

Parrott supervised the company’s port facilities in Charleston, S.C., Wilmington, N.C., Morehead City, N.C., Houston, Texas, Galveston, Texas, Duluth, Minn., and Burns Harbor, Ind. He oversaw all staff performance, customer satisfaction, business development, quality assurance, and financial management for the region, and helped launch the company’s first facility in Indiana.

Previously, Parrott served as Chief Executive Officer of Liberty Terminals in Savannah, Ga., for three years, where he led the company through a financial turnaround and completed the sale of its assets to Diversified Port Holdings in 2016. He spent 14 years with Liberty Terminals serving in various roles responsible for U.S. sales and marketing, terminal operations, stevedoring, and warehouse management.

Parrott also served as International Business Manager for Schneider Logistics, a $4 billion-plus national truckload carrier providing service throughout North America, and as General Manager for Australia and the Far East Trades at Wallenius Wilhelmsen Lines, a $2 billion factory-to-dealer logistics company working with the automotive, agricultural, and construction equipment industries.

Parrott earned a bachelor’s degree in transportation and logistics with a minor in economics from Iowa State University. He is a native of suburban Chicago and now lives in Carmel, Indiana.