XPO Logistics, Inc. (NYSE Amex: XPO) today announced that John Hardig has been appointed chief financial officer, effective February 13, 2012.

Mr. Hardig most recently was with Stifel Nicolaus Weisel, where he served as a managing director in the Transportation & Logistics investment banking group since 2003. Previously, he was an investment banker for seven years in the Transportation and Telecom groups at Alex. Brown & Sons (now Deutsche Bank). He has represented market leaders in truck and rail brokerage, international freight forwarding, value-added warehousing and distribution, and trucking.

Mr. Hardig has advised transportation and logistics companies on more than 60 mergers and acquisitions and capital market transactions, including lead-managed IPOs for C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc., Hub Group, Inc. and Roadrunner Transportation Services, Inc. His equity underwriting experience also includes follow-on equity offerings for Forward Air, Inc., Heartland Express, Inc. and Knight Transportation, Inc.

Earlier, Mr. Hardig worked for Ford Motor Company as a design engineer, after serving in the United States Navy as a nuclear power engineering officer. He holds a master of business administration degree from the University of Michigan Business School and a bachelor's degree from the U.S. Naval Academy.

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