Natalie Putnam

Chief Executive Officer

Natalie Putnam is a logistics executive with over 35 years of experience in the trucking, warehousing, eCommerce fulfillment and rail logistics industires.  In Ms. Putnam’s most recent role she was Chief Commercial Officer at Verst Logistics, where she led the companies sales & marketing strategy along with oversight for fleet and brokerage operations.

Before joining Verst Logistics, she served as vice president marketing strategy at Ryder System, Inc. where she was responsible for developing the marketing plans in critical sectors, including healthcare, technology, retail, and automotive.  Her previous experience includes a wide range of roles including vice president of sales and marketing at Kansas City Southern Railroad, and senior vice president of transportation and logistics solutions at YRC Freight where she worked for over 20 years. 

Ms. Putnam has a bachelor of science in business from Central Michigan University, as well as additional, advanced education in business marketing strategy from Kellogg School of Business.  She is also a certified trainer of Crucial Conversations - Vital Smarts.

Ms. Putnam serves on the advisory board for AWESOME, a supply chain organization for Advancing Women’s Excellence in Supply Chain Operations Management and Education. She is on the board of ALAN, American Logistics Aid Netowrk and she has been a life long supporter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and has served on the boards of the foundation in Florida, Michigan, Kansas, and Kentucky.

Marnie Bauman

Human Resource Director

Marnie's career spans more than 3 decades in human resource management leadership roles.  Prior to joining DeliveryCircle, she was the Sr. Vice President of Administration for a national staffing organization with over 12,000 employees in an eight state region.  Before that she held executive administrator roles for Boeing Computer Services, a division of The Boeing Company, as well as CIGNA Corporation.   Marnie is responsible for leading the HR Department, with a focus on developing and executing recruitment and employee relations strategies that represent Delivery Circle's culture and values.  Marnie is a passionate advocate for diversity, equity, inclusion and enhancing the employee experience, as well as meeting the priorities and needs of DeliveryCircle's independent contractor community.

Michael Moore

VP Operations

Daryl Richter

Director of Engineering

Daryl is a dynamic, technology/engineering, team leader and an expert in relational databases and object-oriented software design. He was a founder of Power Team, an early entrant into the newly deregulated power trading markets in the early 90's, which, through eventual acquisition, became Exelon Power Team today. He went on become one of the first 10 employees at several companies primarily in the energy sector and financial services. The most successful of which is HedgeServ, where he was the 8th employee. HedgeServ is now one of the world leaders in hedge fund administration, employs over 1300 people, and has more that $350 billion in assets under management. Daryl was most recently the Director of East Retail IT for NRG Energy where he oversaw a 26-person department with a $2.5 million+ budget.

Vijaya Rao

Chairman and Founder

Prior to founding DeliveryCircle in Feb 2014, Vijaya was in leadership roles in several Fortune 100 companies such as Century Link, AOL, JP Morgan Chase, Motorola and Google. She has extensive experience in leading global software development teams. She has also managed multibillion dollar programs and led new product development and launch in Technology and Financial sectors. Vijaya is a strong supporter of local businesses and believes in using technology to leverage the sharing economy for the benefit of everyone.

Chris Baker

Chief Financial Officer

Chris is our CFO, Finance and Accounting Manager, Chief Troubleshooter and Business Leader with a range of financial and management experience needed for DeliveryCircle He’s an expert in improving performance through hands-on proactive financial management and his vast experience from startups to multi-billion global; is a great asset for DeliveryCircle.