Bargteil, Ken

Professionally, Ken Bargteil is Chairman Emeritus and Area 3 Member of the NCBFAA Customs Committee, recently completing an unprecedented 10-year term as Chairman of that Committee.  He provides counsel to its Board of Directors as Senior Advisor, having termed out after 4 consecutive 2-year terms on the Board the Baltimore, Boston, and Philadelphia Region.  He was a Charter Member of the NCBFAA Educational Institute Policy and CCS Content Committee and currently serves as its Chairman.  He is also a Charter Member of the Large Broker and Forwarder Committee, and has served 10 years on the NCBFAA Annual Conference Committee.  On April 10^th of this year he was awarded the NCBFAA’s highest honor – the Centurion.  Ken leads the NCBFAA delegation at the Customs and Border Protection’s Trade Support Network, serves as a Trade Ambassador, TSN Charter Member on the: Trade Leadership, Revenue, Legal & Policy, Supply Chain Security 10 + 2 and Steering Committees, and he Chairs the TSN Liquidation Subcommittee.  He began his career as a messenger for a small Baltimore customs brokerage and freight forwarding company, advancing within Kuehne + Nagel, Inc. from Baltimore import department manager to corporate Vice President, a position he has held for 32 of his 34 years with this company.  As Associate Line Manager he grew the company’s customs brokerage business unit by 700%, currently supervises more than 85 licensed professionals as its licensed officer, and has exercised leadership in the fields of trade and regulatory compliance, corporate governance, business ethics, anti-trust, anti-bribery, sustainability, safety and health and continuous improvement.