CBOL Honors Gabrielson

The College of Business and Organizational Leadership honored one outstanding alumnus with the annual Loma R. Meyer Award for Purposeful Leadership. The award recognizes alumni contributions in their respective fields as ethical and visionary business leaders who represent Concordia’s mission. Richard Gabrielson ’04 was presented the award during the Alumni Awards Banquet on Sept. 21, 2007.

Gabrielson is currently the senior manager for Import Transportation for Target Corporation. His responsibilities include the management and movement of all imported products for Target Stores, AMC Sourcing and Target Direct.

He is responsible for the negotiation and management of all overseas consolidation operations, ocean carrier contracts and relationships, port operations, deconsolidation operations with third party providers, and the logistics operations at Target’s Import Warehouse network.

He has held a number of positions with Target that include regional transportation operations, domestic inbound transportation operations, and responsibility for Target’s transportation field operations.

Rick is a founding member of the Waterfront Coalition and currently serves as president. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the GMATS program for the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point and is the Vice Chairman of the Marine Transportation System Advisory Council (MTSNAC).

Rick has a B.A. in Organizational Management from Concordia University.