Management Team

Sarah Amico, Executive Chairperson 
 
Sarah Amico is the Chairperson of the Board at Jack Cooper Holdings Corp. Mrs. Amico also serves on the board's Nominating and Governance Committee. Mrs. Amico previously worked as the Head of Strategic Planning at APA Talent and Literary Agency in Beverly Hills, where she also launched and led the company's Entertainment Marketing & Brand Integration Department. During this time, she secured multi-party agreements among top content creators, marquis talent, large content distributors, and leading brands. Mrs. Amico specialized in licensing agreements, branded entertainment, equity compensation deals and multi-platform promotions. Prior to joining APA, Mrs. Amico worked at the William Morris Agency in both Beverly Hills and New York, starting in the agency's famed Mailroom trainee program. She worked in the Motion Picture, Film Finance and Corporate Consulting departments before joining the launch team of WMA's The Mailroom Fund - a seed capital fund raised in partnership with AT&T, Venrock and Accel Partners. During her time in the entertainment industry, Mrs. Amico worked on initiatives for some of the world's largest and most recognizable brands, including General Motors, Time Inc., Starbucks, Reader's Digest, Amtrak, OPI, Harry & David, the Kardashians, and Virgin America Airlines. Mrs. Amico received her BA in Politics magna cum laude from Washington & Lee University and her MBA from Harvard Business School. 


Michael Riggs, Chief Executive Officer and President

Michael Riggs is the CEO and President of Jack Cooper Holdings Corp. Mr. Riggs acquired the company in 2009. Under his leadership, Jack Cooper has grown to become one of the largest car haul companies in North America with approximately 5,000 employees. Mr. Riggs is the largest stakeholder, controlling over 70% of Jack Cooper Holdings Corporation outstanding voting securities. He has over 20 years of experience in the trucking industry, and another 20 years of prior executive experience within manufacturing companies. Mr. Riggs is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Trucking Association, and is Chairman of the Auto Carriers Conference. In 2013, Ernst & Young awarded Mr. Riggs the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the Midwest Region. He was also awarded the Global Outstanding Achievement Award by Automotive Supply Chain Magazine. He received a BS in Business from the General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He and his wife of 38 years have three daughters and five grandchildren.


Kyle Haulotte, Chief Financial Officer

Kyle Haulotte is the Company's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and is responsible for the Company's finance and accounting functions as well as certain risk functions. Prior to becoming the Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Haulotte was the Company's Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer from May 2015 to September 2016. In this role, Mr. Haulotte was responsible for the Company's financial reporting, corporate accounting, shared services, treasury and internal control and tax compliance, and had significant influence over the organization's financial planning and analysis functions. From August 2011 to May 2015, Mr Haulotte served as the Company's Vice President of Accounting and SEC Reporting where he led the Company's accounting, reporting, payroll and treasury functions. Mr. Haulotte was a key leader within several private debt placements and acquisitions. Prior to joining Jack Cooper, Mr. Haulotte worked from 2002-2011 for AMC Entertainment Inc. ("AMC"), a leading North American theatrical exhibition company. During his tenure at AMC, Mr. Haulotte held progressive positions of leadership, first as its Financial Reporting Manager from 2002-2004 and next as its Director of Reporting and Control from 2004-2011. While at AMC Mr. Haulotte led the company's fraud prevention, internal audit and internal control functions and early on was responsible for preparation of the company's financial statements and its external reporting under the Securities Act of 1934. Mr. Haulotte participated in private debt placements and public registration statements under the Securities Act of 1933. Mr. Haulotte also participated in several acquisitions, assisting with the accounting and compliance aspects of the acquisition integrations. Prior to joining AMC, Mr. Haulotte worked for Arthur Andersen from 1997-2002 within the firm's assurance department where he led certain audit engagements for both public and private companies within the transportation, manufacturing, insurance and real estate industries. Mr. Haulotte graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1997 from Missouri State University with a BS in Accounting. Mr. Haulotte is a member of the American Institute of CPAs, Missouri Society of CPAs, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and Institute of Internal Auditors.



Theo A. Ciupitu, Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel

Theo A. Ciupitu has been our Executive Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel since July 2010. Prior to joining us, Mr. Ciupitu was a corporate attorney in private practice, representing public and private companies and private equity and venture capital firms in, among other things, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, divestitures, tax free reorganizations, private and public offerings, debt and equity financing transactions, and outsourcing, licensing, and general commercial transactions. From July 2006 to June 2010, Mr. Ciupitu was an attorney in the Corporate and Securities Department of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC. Prior to July 2006, Mr. Ciupitu was an attorney in the Corporate Services Department of McGuireWoods LLP. Mr. Ciupitu graduated summa cum laude from Florida State University in 1998 and earned his law degree from the University of Texas School of Law in 2001.  
 

Greg May, Chief Administration Officer

Greg R. May is Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of Jack Cooper Holdings with responsibility for Labor Relations, Purchasing, and Workers Comp Administration.   Mr. May rejoined the Company in February 2017 after spending five years as CEO of Car Delivery Network, a technology services firm serving the automotive logistics market.  Prior to that, he spent 17 years with Jack Cooper Transport serving as President from 2005-2011 and CFO from 1998-2005.

Mr. May has more than 30 years of experience in the trucking industry in executive roles and as a consultant and CPA to trucking industry clients.  As a trucking industry executive, he served a leadership role in the movement to improve interaction and awareness between shippers and carriers in the automotive transport segment.  He served as the founding Chairman of the Automobile Carriers Conference of the American Trucking Association.  He has been a frequent speaker at industry events, addressing varied topics affecting auto transporters and advancement of technology to improve supply chain management.   His writings and commentaries on auto transport and logistics have appeared in a number of business publications.

Prior to joining Jack Cooper Transport in 1994, he spent ten years with KPMG working with public company clients in the transportation, banking and manufacturing practice areas.  He also served as CFO of ABC Laboratories, an environmental services company, from 1990 to 1994.  Greg is a CPA and a member of the national and state CPA societies.  He is a 1980 graduate of the University of Missouri with a B.S. in Accountancy.

Kirk Hay, Chief Information Officer

Kirk Hay is the Company’s Chief Information Officer and is responsible for Jack Cooper’s Information Technology function.  Kirk has over three decades of experience leading IT departments of public companies in a variety of industries.  His industry experience includes technology services, financial services, quick service restaurant, transportation logistics and insurance.  During his career he has led both small, startup and large, established IT shops determining and fulfilling strategy in support of corporate objectives, regulatory compliance and aggressive M&A activities.

Prior to joining Jack Cooper in September of 2014, Kirk was a Director with Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. a leading provider of computer systems, cloud services and payment solutions for more than 11,000 financial services organizations across the U.S.  Kirk was part of the leadership during rapid company and departmental growth both organically and via more than twenty company acquisitions. Kirk was part of the IT leadership at J.B. Hunt, one of the largest transportation logistics companies in North America, when they initiated their Intermodal, Logistics and Dedicated Contract Services offerings and transitioned the fleet to containers.  He was also was part of the American Trucking Association’s then named Management Systems Council, EDI and Automated U.S. Customs taskforces. While with Papa John’s Kirk led the effort for their initial online ordering service which evolved into digital offerings which now account for more than half their sales.  Kirk was part of the IT leadership also with National Processing Company, one of the world’s largest processors of credit card transactions and division of National City Bank, then the country’s 8th largest bank.  Kirk started his career at American Community Mutual, then the 2nd largest health insurance provider in Michigan.

During his career Kirk has been active with several volunteer organizations, seated on the board of directors of charitable organizations, industry advisory councils of public and private universities as well as technology organizations and vendors.   Kirk has a degree in Business Administration from Evangel University as well as industry specific certifications.  

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