New Product/Service & Sustainability Awards Judging Committee

Chair:
Joshe Ordonez, Founder & CEO
Airpals Technologies Inc., Brooklyn, New York, United States

Joshe Ordoñez is the Founder of Airpals, a Google-backed platform that helps teams transform chaotic parcel shipping into a streamlined, compliant, and cost-effective operation. Trusted by over 6,000 enterprise operators and featured in outlets like Forbes, Cosmopolitan Magazine, and Nasdaq, Airpals is redefining how companies manage internal shipping at scale—whether it’s production supplies, documents, samples, equipment, or more.

Each year, up to 30% of internal parcel shipping spend is lost due to costly human errors, hidden fees, missed consolidation, fragmented carrier management, and the overwhelming burden of processing thousands of invoices, often manually or via outdated EDI systems. These inefficiencies introduce not just delays, but serious compliance risks and employee burnout across teams who should be focused on high-leverage work. 

Airpals was built on the belief that parcel shipping should run silently and efficiently in the background. The platform unifies every shipping provider a company already uses into one auditable system, automating workflows, eliminating overcharges, and giving teams the tools to ship smarter, not harder.

An award-winning operator with over a decade of experience in production and apparel manufacturing, Joshe built Airpals for the people doing the real work behind the scenes, giving them the tools and visibility they’ve never had, but have always deserved.

Committee:

Dipak Banerjee, Senior Production Planning Tooling Engineer
Welspun Tubular Inc, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

Dr. Ahmed Mahafzah, BTEC Expert Coordinator
Ministry of Education, Amman, Jordan    
Dr. Ahmed Mahafzah, works as an expert BTEC coordinator at the Ministry of Education, Amman, Jordan. With a PhD in Hospitality Management, Food & Beverage Management. Dr. Ahmed has worked as a teacher and lecturer in three universities and colleges within the departments of hospitality, tourism, and culinary arts for more than 8 years.

Chirag Agrawal, Global Head, Data Science 
Novelis, Cumming, Georgia, United States 
Chirag has nearly 20 years of experience in the fields of IT, Strategy Consulting, and Manufacturing. Chirag is skilled in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Machine Vision, Generative AI, Agentic AI, Simulations, and Cloud Solutions. With over 15 years of experience in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, including Cloud Transformation, Generative AI, and Agentic AI.