James Rusty Eason is the President, Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director of Chelsea International Cold Storage and Logistics. The company was founded in 2007. He is the Technical Advisor to Global Cold Chain Alliance (GCCA).

Prior to this establishing Chelsea, for 18 years, he has held been the Regional General Manager of multiple facilities in the Southern United States for Atlas Cold Storage and Logistics. He has even served as the Senior Vice President of Business Development for Meridian Development Group.

As the advisor to GCCA, Eason has worked on several USAID projects throughout Africa, Central Asia, and Middle East, where he has helped, train executives in the proper management of Cold Supply Chain Management and Operations of cold storage facilities.

He has completed a B.A. in Supply Chain Management and Accounting, World Food and Logistics Organization (WFLO) Institute for Logistic and Warehouse Management Training.

He has been the Board Member on various boards such as Annona, Kenya - ICT firm for the farm-to-fork solution; Bright House Consultancy and Training, Kenya; Planet Africa Trading, Egypt - commodity trading company; and D-Grid Energy, Washington DC.