David Salt

David Salt is COO & CPO at LOGIVAN, overseeing product & people operations. LOGIVAN was founded in 2017 to digitise the trucking industry. By applying advanced tracking of truck location combined with AI pricing and matching services, LOGIVAN solves the fragmentation problem that causes empty truck returns and idle truck time. LOGIVAN serves thousands of individual shippers and international companies such as Unilever, Coca-Cola, Wilmar International and Ajinomoto.

LOGIVAN has completed three rounds of investment, raising a total of $8m from investors including Insignia Partners, Alpha JWC and Vinacapital Ventures, and collecting four innovation awards: Best Startup at RISE (Asia’s largest tech conference), SK Group Fellowship, Pitch@Palace and Uber Exchange.

Before joining LOGIVAN, David co-founded UniAdmissions Education Group in 2013. The company has built a portfolio of brands, becoming Europe’s leading publisher in the University Admissions space, runner-up at the Education Investor awards and winner at the UK Business Excellence Awards 2019.

David studied at Cambridge University, gaining degrees in medical sciences, clinical medicine and surgery with research in the field of decision systems and neural integrators. After two years as an acute physician, David completed an MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology.

Away from work, David enjoys reading, food & drink, badminton, hill-walking, swimming and scuba diving.