01
Build.
Predictive trade intelligence that turns multimodal signals into route, capacity, and timing decisions.
What I actually do now
See the system.
Move before it does.
02
Advise.
Aviation strategy, cargo network design, operating models, and market-entry decisions.
03
Write.
Books and briefings that make air cargo and logistics legible to the people entering or leading it.
The practical question
Who can help us see freight risk before it arrives?
Lars Winkelbauer helps aviation and logistics leaders turn weak signals into earlier operating decisions.
He combines twenty years of network leadership across Asia Pacific with predictive trade intelligence built for multimodal logistics. The work is concrete: identify the lane, understand the constraint, choose the move.Twenty years / one system
The record.
Operating experience, predictive intelligence, and a body of work designed to reveal how global freight actually moves.
Roles
- NowFounder & CEO, Lima Xi Technologies
- 2021—NowCo-founder, German Pacific
- 2018—2021EVP & COO, Polar Air Cargo
- 2014—2018VP Aviation, DHL Express Asia Pacific
- 2003—2014Polar Air Cargo, Director to VP
The Gateway Trilogy
- Book 01The Invisible Highway
- Book 02Pallet ULD & Other Secrets
- Book 03Your Launchpad
Speaking topics
- 01Predictive intelligence in global commerce
- 02Aviation and air cargo transformation
- 03Capacity, resilience, and trade-lane shifts
- 04Leadership across complex networks
Advisory scope
- NetworkCargo strategy and route economics
- MarketEntry, launch, and operating models
- SystemDigital and predictive transformation
- BoardExecutive and investor decision support
Portrait
to follow.
Three covers.
One gateway.
Bangkok / Connected globally
Open a lane.
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