Logistics and supply chain executive Bradley (Brad) Berfield possesses decades of experience, having served with organizations ranging from Wal-Mart to Brookstone and Coldwater Creek. In addition to his professional responsibilities, Brad Berfield supports the Nemours Fund for Children’s Health.The fundraising arm of the Nemours Children’s Health System, the Nemours Fund for Children's Health is dedicated to improving patient care, supporting biomedical research, and powering intervention/education initiatives. In 2016 alone, the fund received more than $8.4 million in charitable contributions from more than 5,800 donors.Thanks to these donors, the Nemours Children’s Health System purchased specialized equipment to test the vision of children in Jacksonville, Florida, and conducted helicopter transport training for air medical crew members in Orlando, Florida. The Nemours Fund has also supported ongoing critical research into acute myeloid leukemia and achieved US Food and Drug Administration approval for the first pharmaceutical that treats spinal muscular atrophy.
A seasoned logistics executive, Bradley "Brad" Berfield has over 20 years of experience in the distribution, transportation, and supply chain management field. Outside of the professional arena, he is an avid boating enthusiast who has enjoyed the hobby for approximately three decades. Although he appreciates both seawater and freshwater boating excursions, Brad Berfield recognizes that seawater presents a number of distinct maintenance challenges. The primary problem with saltwater is its corrosive properties. When metal comes into contact with a conductive solution, such as salt water, it begins to electrically loose atoms to any dissimilar metal that happens to sit in the same solution. Called "galvanic corrosion," this gradual loss of matter can ultimately cause metal to fall apart completely.To protect against corrosion, as well as the buildup of salt deposits, responsible boaters should flush boat engines and metal surfaces with freshwater after each saltwater voyage, taking care to cover all water intake valves. As the metal of boat trailers will also begin to corrode after exposure to salt water, boaters should rinse them thoroughly as well.
An accomplished logistics and distribution professional in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Bradley “Brad” Berfield holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Boston University and an MBA from Binghamton University. Outside of his professional life, Brad Berfield pursues a diverse range of hobbies that includes golfing, cooking, and boating. An avid fisherman, he particular enjoys angling for striped bass. All anglers have a tale of the one that got one away, but for one fisherman, the one that didn’t get away will be a story to tell for the rest of his life. In May of 2018, a New Jersey fisherman named Joe Callahan caught a near-record striped bass while angling from the shore in Raritan Bay. Callahan had already been fishing for three hours when the monster fish took his bait, and the two spent a half-hour wrestling one another before Callahan was able to reel it in. The fish weighed in at a whopping 58 pounds, making it one of the largest striped bass recorded in New Jersey and ranking it in the upper tier of those caught in the United States. New Jersey is no stranger to record-breaking striped bass. The largest ever caught in the state, a 78-pound behemoth landed in Atlantic City, stood as the world’s largest until a Connecticut fisherman reeled in an 81-pound striper in 2011.
