Covenant Logistics CVLG

David R. Parker, has served as our Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) since 1994. From our founding in 1985 to February 2016 Mr. Parker served as our President. Mr. Parker is a past director of the Truckload Carriers Association and currently serves on the board of directors of the American Trucking Associations. From 2012 to October 2017, Mr. Parker served as a member of the Trade and Transportation Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Mr. Parker has also served as a director or in similar capacities of several religious and civic organizations and serves as general partner of the Parker Family Limited Partnership. The Board believes Mr. Parker's dedication, trucking experience, general business knowledge, significant leadership ability, and in-depth knowledge of the Company qualify him for his continued service as CEO and Chairman of our Board.

M. Paul Bunn, has been our President since January 2023. Mr. Bunn previously served as our President and COO between January 2023 and April 2024, our Senior EVP, COO, and Secretary between April 2021 and January 2023, our EVP, CFO, and Secretary from April 2020 to April 2021, our EVP and CAO from April 2019 to April 2020, our Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer from January 2012 to April 2020, and our SVP from 2017 to April 2019. Previously, Mr. Bunn served as our Corporate Controller from July 2009 to January 2012. Prior to that, Mr. Bunn served as an Audit Senior Manager for Ernst & Young, LLP, a global professional services provider.

James Grant has been our EVP and CFO since May 2022. Mr. Grant joined the Company as the Corporate Controller in July 2019 and also served as our Chief Accounting Officer from September 2020 to January 2024 and our principal accounting officer from August 2019 to January 2024. Previously, Mr. Grant worked at Chattem, Inc., from August 2007 to June 2019, during which time he served in the following roles: Director - Corporate Projects, Corporate Controller, and Assistant Controller. Prior to Chattem, Mr. Grant served as a Senior Internal Auditor at Electric Power Board of Chattanooga, an electric power distribution and telecommunications company from January 2006 to August 2007, and a Senior Accountant at Neal, Scouten, & McConnell, P.C. from August 2002 to January 2006.

Dustin Koehl, joined the Company as COO in May 2024. Mr. Koehl previously served as the Head of Commercialization at Waabi, an AI-centered self-driving truck developer, where he was responsible for customer adoption, transportation strategy, and safety. An active member of the transportation industry, Mr. Koehl is a partner with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's FreightLab and has served on several industry committees, including positions at the American Trucking Associations and the American Transportation Research Institute. Mr. Koehl has over 17 years of experience in transportation, including twelve years at Total Transportation of Mississippi, including as Vice President - Sales and Operations (through 2019) and three years at U.S. Xpress, Inc., including as Senior Vice President - Over-the-Road (through 2022).

Joey Ballard has been our EVP and Chief People and Safety Officer since May 2025, prior to which she served as our EVP - People and Safety since May 2022. Ms. Ballard served as SVP of Talent Management between April 2019 and May 2022. Ms. Ballard joined the Company in July 2018 following our acquisition of Landair Holdings, Inc. and previously was the Senior Director of Talent Management at Landair. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Ballard served in various human resource and safety leadership roles at Landair since 1999. Ms. Ballard has a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is actively involved in many community organizations.

W. Miller Welborn, has served as a director since 2017 and currently serves as our Lead Independent Director, Chair of our Compensation Committee, and as a member of our Audit Committee. Mr. Welborn has been Chairman of SmartFinancial, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMBK), a publicly traded holding company of SmartBank with over $4.8 billion in assets since 2015. From 2009 to 2015 Mr. Welborn served as Chairman of Cornerstone Bancshares, Inc., which was the publicly traded parent company of Cornerstone Community Bank prior to the bank's merger with SmartBank in 2015, where he served on the Asset-Liability (ALCO), Loan, Governance, Nominating, Audit, and Compensation Committees. Mr. Welborn has also served as President of Welborn & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in transportation and logistics, since 2000. He previously served as managing partner of Transport Capital Partners, LLC, another transportation advisory and consulting firm that he co-founded, from 2001 to 2014. Prior to co-founding Transport Capital Partners, LLC, Mr. Welborn served in several executive and ownership capacities of various trucking companies, including as President, CEO, and a director of Boyd Bros Transportation, President and Chairman of Welborn Transport, Inc., a company he co-founded, and President of Cummings Trucking Co., Inc. From 2010 to 2015 Mr. Welborn served as a partner of Lamp Post Group, Inc., a venture capital company with a portfolio of investments ranging from start-up level to over $600 million in annual revenue. Mr. Welborn currently serves on multiple non-profit boards.

D. Michael Kramer, has served as a director since 2020 and currently serves as the Chair of our Audit Committee and as a member of our Compensation Committee. Mr. Kramer has served as the Executive Chairman of Southeastern Trust Company since 2018. Additionally, Mr. Kramer served as Chief Executive Officer of Peak Financial, LLC, a fintech start-up company, between 2019 and October 2022. Mr. Kramer served as the Vice Chairman of Midsouth Bancorp, Inc. from May 2018 until Midsouth's merger with Hancock Whitney Corporation (NASDAQ: HWC) in September 2019. Mr. Kramer served as President and COO of Atlantic Capital Bancshares, Inc. from November 2015 to December 2017 while the company was publicly traded and was also a member of the Board of Directors of Atlantic Capital from November 2015 to October 2017. Prior to that he served as Chief Executive Officer and President of First Security Group, Inc. and its primary banking subsidiary, FSGBank, N.A. from 2011 through 2015, as Managing Director of Ridley Capital Group from 2010 to 2011, as Director, Chief Executive Officer and President of Ohio Legacy Corporation from 2005 to 2010, and as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer of Integra Bank Corporation from 1999 to 2004. Mr. Kramer served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation from 2018 to 2021. Mr. Kramer serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Covenant College Foundation and the University of Chattanooga Foundation. Mr. Kramer has a Bachelor's Degree from Grove City College and a Master's in Business Administration from Western Governors University.

Bradley A. Moline has served as a director since 2003 and currently serves as the Chair of our Nominating Committee and as a member of our Audit Committee. Since October 2002, Mr. Moline has been President and CEO of ALLO Communications, LLC, a telecommunications company. He also serves on the Board of Directors of ALLO Communications, LLC, which has issued publicly traded debt securities. In 2026, Mr. Moline will be joining the board of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska. In 2018, Mr. Moline joined the board of National Cable Television Cooperative, Inc., a Kansas nonprofit corporation. Mr. Moline also has been the owner, President, and CEO of Imperial Super Foods, NECO Grocery, and WhiMol, with grocery operations in Nebraska and Colorado, since 2002. From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Moline was our Treasurer and CFO. Mr. Moline also served as CFO of Birch Telecom Inc., a telecommunications company, when the company's debt securities were publicly traded and previously worked for Ernst & Young, where he was formerly licensed as a CPA. Mr. Moline holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska with an emphasis in accounting. In his roles with the Company, Birch Telecom, and Ernst & Young, Mr. Moline gained experience overseeing financial matters and reviewing documents filed with the SEC.

Herbert J. Schmidt, has served as a director since 2013 and currently serves as Chairperson of our Risk Committee and as a member of our Compensation Committee. Mr. Schmidt previously served as EVP of Con-way Inc. and President of Con-way Truckload, both freight transportation providers, from 2007 until his retirement in 2012. Prior to the merger of Contract Freighters, Inc. (CFI), another freight transportation provider, with Con-way Inc. in 2007, Mr. Schmidt held positions at CFI as President and CEO from 2005 to 2007 and President from 2000 to 2005. Prior to his becoming President and CEO in 2005, he was employed in a series of progressively more responsible positions at CFI where he gained extensive knowledge in risk management, as well as leading the sales and operations functions as Senior Vice President of Operations. Mr. Schmidt also served as a member of the Board of Directors of formerly publicly traded Empire District Electric Company 2010 through January 2017, including membership on the Compensation, Executive, and Strategic Projects Committees.

Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., has served as a director since 2021 and currently serves as a member of our Nominating Committee and Risk Committee. Dr. Carson served as the 17th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from 2017 to 2021. Dr. Carson is a world-renowned neurosurgeon who prior to serving as HUD Secretary was involved with more than 15,000 surgical procedures and was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, more than 70 honorary doctorate degrees and the Spingarn Medal, the NAACP's highest honor. Dr. Carson serves on the Board of Directors for D.R. Horton, Inc. (NYSE: DHI), Sinclair, Inc. (NASDAQ: SBGI) and Galectin therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: GALT). In addition, Dr. Carson previously served on the Board of Directors of both The Kellogg Company (NYSE: K) and Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST). Dr. Carson is the founder and current Chairman of the American Cornerstone Institute, founder and member of the Board of Directors of Old Glory Bank, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Carson Scholars Fund, an organization he and his wife, founded in 1994. Throughout his distinguished career, Dr. Carson contributed to the field of medicine through the thousands of surgeries he performed and the many leadership positions he held, including serving as Director of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions from 1984 to 2013 as well a Professor of Neurological Surgery, Oncology, Plastic Surgery, and Pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions from 1999 to 2013.

Tracy L. Rosser, has served as a director since May 2023 and currently serves on our Nominating Committee. Mr. Rosser was EVP of Operations at Uber Freight (formerly Transplace) from May 2019 until December 2022. Mr. Rosser served as Chief Operating Officer for Walmart Stores East, LLC (Walmart Fleet) and Senior Vice President of Transportation and Supply Chain at Walmart from November 2012 to February 2019. Mr. Rosser previously held many positions at Walmart, including, Senior Vice President - Division Lead of Store Operations, Vice President - Regional General Manager of Store Operations, Vice President of Transportation, General Manager - Distribution Center, and General - Manager Fleet Operations, beginning in 1997. Mr. Rosser has served as a member of the Executive Advisory Board of Blume Global since February 2019 and as a member of the Board of Trustees for the National WWII Museum since January 2011. Mr. Rosser also served as a board member of the Arkansas Trucking Association from November 2012 to January 2019, of the American Trucking Associations from January 2016 to January 2019, and of the National Academy of Sciences - Transportation Research Board from January 2004 to January 2009. Mr. Rosser has a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from the University of Alabama and an Executive Master's in Business Administration from Tulane University.

Joey B. Hogan, has served as a director since May 2023 and currently serves as a member of our Risk Committee. In June 2023 Mr. Hogan retired after serving as of officer of the Company for more than twenty-five years, most recently as an Executive Vice President (EVP) focused on strategic planning, mentoring the leadership team, government relations, and other special projects. Mr. Hogan served as our President from April 2021 to January 2023, and our Principal Financial Officer (PFO) between April 2021 and May 2022. Previously, Mr. Hogan served as our Co-President and Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) from April 2020 to April 2021 and as our President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) from February 2016 to April 2020. From May 2007 to February 2016 Mr. Hogan served as our Senior EVP and COO, as well as President of Covenant Transport, Inc. (CTI). Mr. Hogan was our Chief Financial Officer (CFO) from 1997 to May 2007, our EVP from May 2003 to May 2007, and a Senior Vice President (SVP) from December 2001 to May 2003. From the time he joined us in August 1997 through December 2001, Mr. Hogan served as our Treasurer. Mr. Hogan served as a director and on the Audit Committee of previously publicly traded Chattem, Inc., a consumer products company, from April 2009 through March 2010, and currently serves as an officer of the Truckload Carriers Association.

Rachel Parker-Hatchett, has served as a director since 2020 and currently serves on our Risk Committee. Ms. Parker-Hatchett held numerous positions within Covenant Transport between September 2006 and July 2020. After graduating from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) with a Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, she started with the Company as a Management Trainee working in multiple departments. Ms. Parker-Hatchett began as a Marketing Intern before transferring to Operations in September 2007, where she ultimately spent the majority of her career. Ms. Parker-Hatchett held the position of Customer Service Intern from September 2007 to January 2008, Fleet Manager Intern from January 2008 to June 2008, and Ops Intern from June 2008 to October 2008. She then transferred to the Safety Department and held the position of Log Clerk from October 2008 to February 2010, when she was promoted to Operations Director for Covenant Solutions, the prior name for our brokerage operations. Again, in March 2015, Ms. Parker-Hatchett was promoted to Director of Solutions and was in charge of training and development all personnel, overseeing change initiatives and Lead Measures, coordinating all daily meetings, and maintaining visibility to all new customers and their success within Solutions. Ms. Parker-Hatchett served as Director of Solutions until March 2019. In February 2015, she participated in a year-long Executive Education Program conducted by UTC, where she met and coordinated with various leaders from the community once a month. In 2019, she was named Women of Covenant Director, a position she held until July 2020. Ms. Parker-Hatchett is also involved with many local non-profits and served on the board of a local non-profit, First Things First, from 2011 to 2013.