George Abernathy

George Abernathy is a Strategic Advisor at NewRoad Capital Partners. George has more than 30 years of supply chain and technology sales and operating experience in building and managing companies, constructing revenue and profit-making enterprises. George is the outgoing President of Emerge where he was recruited to build out commercial offerings and revenue sources. Prior to Emerge, George was President of FreightWaves where he built and was responsible for all revenue and commercial efforts, including SaaS, marketing, and virtual/physical events.

George served as President of Transplace during the company’s rapid ascension into becoming a top 3PL, and has a breadth of technology, asset, and non-asset industry background, having held executive leadership positions at Transplace, J.B. Hunt, Logistics.com and Sabre Logistics.

George holds a BA from Assumption University.