Pete Bayer is senior vice president of safety and special initiatives for Penske Logistics. He directs the company’s safety, asset protection and food safety programs.
Bayer was most recently senior vice president of dedicated contract carriage and truckload. He was also senior vice president of operations that included oversight of the distribution center management product line.
Bayer joined the company in 2014 as director of customer operations. Since then, he has served in various operational leadership roles with increasing levels of responsibility, including vice president operations for the Northeast area and vice president operations, DCM South.
Prior to Penske, Bayer had a 29-year noteworthy leadership career in the U.S. Army, where he held a number of command and staff positions in the United States, Germany and the Middle East.
Bayer holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College.