We’re Celebrating
20 Years!
February 18th, 2023 marked 20 years of PiVAL. It’s been quite a ride to say the least. What started with just one service, has now grown to a full range of transportation services, including intermodal, cross-docking, over the road transportation, drayage, and expedite, along with five fully integrated warehouses across Canada. And all thanks to the hard work of all the amazing PiVAL employees, the customers that trusted us to handle their supply chain needs, and the partners that have supported us along the way.
Thank you for all your support over the last two decades, none of this would be possible without you. We look forward to our continued partnership.
This video is an interview with Mario La Barbera, the President of PiVAL, talking about his 20 year journey. We hope you enjoy it.
Our Mission, Vision & Values
Mission: As a value-added logistics partner, we maximize every talent, asset, and effort to provide the most optimized and innovative end-to-end supply chain solutions for our partners.
Vision: To be the ultimate customer centric 3PL partner of choice, delivering unparalleled supply chain solutions by leveraging innovation, cutting edge technology and operational excellence.
Values: In everything we do, the values listed in the following slides guide us in delivering optimal and sustainable logistics and supply chain solutions.
Meaning Behind PiVAL
The symbol for “Pi”, the Greek letter commonly used in mathematics.
It represents a mathematical constant which represents our movement, our consistency, and our certainty.
Empower Partnership
More than working together towards a common goal, partnership means doing everything we can to ensure our customers’ prosperity, as they help us prosper.
Maximize Value
Before we do anything for our customers, we ensure that it creates more value for their investment in us.
Always Do Better
We identify processes that produce positive outcomes, use key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure progress, analyze results and implement improvements. Then we repeat the cycle.
Respect for All
We carefully curate team members based on their ability to contribute to our customers’ success. We are all experts in our roles. We have a voice. We listen. We learn. We improve.
Commitment - Give Everything We Have
We empower all our people, leverage all our assets and apply all our technology to enable our customers’ to reach their logistics, supply chain and overall business objectives.
Meet our Team
Mario La Barbera
President Mario La Barbera
PresidentAfter graduating from McGill University, eager to apply his studies, Mario decided to move to the US. Based in Philadelphia and New York, he never turned down an opportunity to travel to virtually all east coast ports, intermodal terminals and hundreds of plants to learn more about supply chains and transportation.
After five years, he returned to Canada and held Director roles for two large Class 1 railroads. Realizing his entrepreneurial skills were better used in smaller organizations, Mario created Acurail and later co-founded PiVAL International in 2003, based in Montreal.
Under his leadership and strategic guidance, PiVAL built a strong team overseeing operations in dedicated warehousing, cross dock, expedite and integrated transportation solutions. Mario has more recently embarked on changing the company culture to embrace operational excellence using the Shingo Model.
Mario is on several transportation committees and chaired logistics’ councils to advise governments and policy makers. A proud father of three active children and married to his childhood friend, Mario’s entire family shares his devotion to fundraising for children’s hospitals.
Alexia La Barbera
VP of People & Revenue Growth
Carl La Barbera
VP Customer Experience & OperationsDepartments
- Business Development
- Operations
- Customer Success
- Transportation
- Administration
- Quality & Compliance
- People & Culture
Ryan Buisman
Partnership Solutions Representative
John Rato
Partnership Solutions Representative Tory Holub
Partnership Solution Representative Aishwarya Srivastava
Transportation Brokerage Sales Representative Andrew McNab
Director of Supply Chain
Dean Egger
Operations Manager Raechel Leite
Operations Manager Lee Craig
Operations Manager
Carl La Barbera
Director of Customer Success Maxine Donaldson
Customer Success Associate Lauren Stobo
Customer Success Associate Soham Patel
Transportation Manager
Paul Martin
Director of IT Joe Sarrhini
Director of Finance Danielle Bendavid
Director of Quality and Compliance Noa El Aawar
Human Resources Generalist Kristina Ganten
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Founder's Story
As a kid I delivered groceries in a wooden wagon from the local supermarket to inner-city homes. I realized that tip amounts were directly related to being customer centric and service minded.
Improving the service meant exploring other solutions. Trading in the wooden wagon for a specialized bike equipped with a large pannier improved speed and efficiency. I could cut delivery times by more than half. And clients could call in their grocery orders from their homes which I would deliver within two hours. Delivery to home started in the 1960’s for this child…
READ MOREFast forward a few decades, and the concept in supply chain remains the same. All customers have one thing in common. They want reliable and predictable service to be on time at a reasonable cost. If we understand these simple concepts, it’s not that difficult to scale a business. The speed of growth depends on talent and technology you throw at it. We embrace technology so you always have tracking and visibility of your product during the entire journey.
There is no way I will take credit for PiVAL’s success. But I will say that culture is so important to attract and retain the right people to the team. The culture starts at the top. Building a customer centric team is the root of our success.
We work tirelessly to satisfy our customers. You have our entire team’s commitment.
