Mike Brannigan

President and Chief Executive Officer

As President and CEO, Michael J. Brannigan oversees the executive leadership, strategic direction and overall growth and profitability of all subsidiaries of The Suddath Companies. Mike is known for his engaging leadership style and commitment to hard work, teamwork and customer service. Under his leadership, Suddath has grown significantly across its diverse business units.

Since joining Suddath in 2012 as Chief Operating Officer, Mike has overseen the realignment, diversification and growth of the company to its current operating model. His focus is on driving profitable growth through comprehensive organic growth and strategic acquisitions, the customer experience, safety and quality, innovation and digital strategies, streamlining operations through process efficiencies and the employee experience. 

Prior to joining Suddath, Mike served as Chief Financial Officer at iGPS, spent 17 years in various financial and operational leadership positions at Ryder System, Inc. and held positions at Procter & Gamble and Arthur Andersen.  Mike has an MBA from Cornell University and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Albright College.

Joanna Aman, Esquire

Vice President and General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer

Joanna Aman has been in-house counsel for The Suddath Companies for nearly 15 years, starting as general counsel for Suddath’s relocation management brand Sterling Lexicon before moving into her current role as Chief Compliance Officer.

Joanna started at Suddath in the Risk Department, which at the time was a department of one. Before that she practiced corporate, transportation, relocation, employment and real estate law as part of a 17-year legal career.

Joanna holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in intercultural studies from Trinity College and a Juris Doctor from Georgia State University College of Law, where she was a member of the Moot Court Board. She is active in several legal and industry associations including the American Bar Association, Association of Corporate Counsel, American Moving & Storage Association, Conference of Freight Counsel, Employee Relocation Council, the Florida Bar Association and other state bar associations.

Len O’Neill

Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer

As Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Len O’Neill leads an agile team dedicated to enabling digitally driven mobility and logistics service experiences for Suddath’s customers, partners and employees.  His core areas of focus are driving our digital transformation, improving customer experience and creating competitive differentiation within the mobility, logistics and transportation industries.

A leading innovator of supply chain and information technologies, Len has more than 20 years of experience across a number of industries with global reach, and across Fortune 25 Financial Service and Fortune 250 Transportation platforms.

Before he joined Suddath, Len served as Chief Operating Officer and head of infrastructure and global technology for Deutsche Bank in Jacksonville, Florida and held technology leadership roles for both CSX and Merrill Lynch. He holds a degree in Computer Information Management from Jacksonville University and participated in the Harvard Executive Leadership Development Program and the Wharton Executive Strategic Leadership Program.

Scott Kelly

President, Government Services

Scott Kelly leads Suddath Government Services, dedicated to providing only the best in worldwide relocation services to over 30,000 military and government agency personnel and their families.

Scott is an industry veteran with 35 years of experience, responsible for the development and oversight for the Department of Defense and General Services Administration business, including, but not limited to Department of State, Bureau of Public Debt, Drug Enforcement Administration and the United States Postal Service. He led Suddath’s successful participation in the Department of Defense Household Goods Re-Engineering Program and the Full-Service Moving Project pilot program, under which Suddath was one of only six providers worldwide chosen to participate.

As an active member and committee participant of all major government-related industry organizations, including the International Association of Movers, American Moving and Storage Association, California Movers Association and National Defense Transportation Association, Scott and his team are dedicated to serving those who serve. In addition, Scott is one of a small select group of executives chosen to participate in U.S. Transportation Command’s Executive Working Group.

Walter Myers

Chief Administrative Officer, Moving & Logistics

As Chief Administration Officer, Walter Myers oversees the finance and accounting, billing and driver settlement operations for Suddath’s Moving & Logistics business. He has management of the claims and real estate organizations, procurement/vendor management, sales and operations planning and data analytics. Walter also has direct responsibility for Suddath’s Southeast region branch operations teams.

Walter has nearly 20 years of operations and corporate finance experience, including developing capital investment and business strategies, instituting corporate analytics programs, raising equity and debt financing. Before assuming his role as Chief Administrative Officer, Walter held positions at Suddath as Senior Vice President of Moving & Logistics, Vice President of Financial Planning and Analytics and Director of Corporate Finance and Analytics.

Prior to joining Suddath in 2013, Walter worked at iGPS as the Vice President of Finance, and before that, he served as Vice President of Corporate Development at EverBank. He holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and an MBA from the University of North Florida Coggin College of Business in Jacksonville.

Steve Suddath

Chairman of the Board

A third-generation leader and grandson of founder Carl Suddath, Steve Suddath grew up in the moving and storage business. This experience gives him a deeper and more personal perspective in his role as Chairman, where he provides guidance to the company’s officers and executives and strategic direction to the company as a whole.

Steve has steered the organization his grandfather founded through sweeping industry changes. For more than three decades, he was involved in both domestic and international moving operations and worked alongside leaders of Suddath business units and branch offices to enhance the quality of service provided to our customers while ensuring growth and profitability.

Steve serves on the Executive Committees of the Boy Scouts of America and the American Diabetes Association. He also served on the Mayor’s Growth Management Task Force and gives support to over 30 charities in Northeast Florida, having served on many of their boards. He holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from Florida State University.

Barbara Strickland

Vice President and Secretary

Barbara “Babs” Strickland, granddaughter of founder Carl Suddath, started working summers at Suddath at age 12 and today serves as Vice President and Secretary of the Board. Before serving on the Board, Babs was an attorney and partner at Mahoney, Adams and Criser, P.A. and prior to that, she taught French language at the University of Virginia.

A true trailblazer, Babs became the first woman to serve on the Jacksonville Port Authority Board, ultimately becoming its chair in 1995. Today, she is a member of the Florida Bar Association and participates in the Fiduciary Board of Infilaw, a consortium of law schools. She also serves as a member of the executive committee for the Pacolet Area Conservancy, a non-profit land trust in Tryon, North Carolina.