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Grace Maher

Factoring, transportation finance, or commercial credit

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Grace Maher
SEAT 06

Factoring, transportation finance, or commercial credit

Term: Dates pending confirmation

Grace Maher

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COO · OTR Solutions

Grace Maher is Chief Operating Officer of OTR Solutions and a founding employee who has spent 15 years helping build the company’s transportation financial services and technology operations. Her experience spans underwriting, risk management, operations, customer experience, technology development and fraud prevention. With a background in accounting and financial auditing, Grace works closely with motor carriers, small fleets and owner-operators. She contributes industry education focused on fraud awareness, risk prevention and practical approaches to compliance. Grace brings a transportation finance perspective to the Dalilah Standard, with a commitment to transparency, accountability and protecting legitimate trucking businesses. Her focus is on raising standards through education, independent judgment and practical solutions that support carriers and the people sharing our roads.

ABOUT THIS COUNCIL SEAT

Seat 06 requirements and responsibilities

Factoring, transportation finance, or commercial credit

Qualifications for this seat

A factoring, transportation-finance or commercial-credit professional with relevant operations, underwriting, credit, risk or fraud-prevention experience.

Relevant work and experience

  • Reviewing transportation invoices, payment instructions and supporting business records.
  • Assessing business identity, authority to act and financial-document inconsistencies.
  • Recognizing finance-related impersonation, payment diversion and fraud warning signs.

What this seat contributes

  • Review standards for transportation financial documentation and identity checks.
  • Recommend safeguards for changes in payment instructions and authority to act.
  • Help distinguish evidence of a problem from an unsupported assumption about a business.
  • Contribute finance expertise to assigned standards and program reviews without making credit decisions for applicants.

Responsibilities throughout Council service

  • Prepare for meetings, review assigned standards and supporting evidence, and record informed votes on Council appointments and other reserved matters.
  • Maintain the individual Council pledge, apply published requirements fairly and place the integrity of the Standard above personal or commercial interests.
  • Protect confidential information, provide annual conflict disclosures, disclose changes promptly and recuse when required.
  • Follow the Charter’s ethics and competition safeguards. Committee leadership and additional assignments require separate discussion and authorization where applicable.

Service commitment

Unpaid service, with an initial estimate of 2–4 hours per month on average. Meetings are expected at least quarterly, ordinarily 60–90 minutes. Workload varies; substantial extra assignments are discussed first.

Seat terms are normally three years; founding staggered terms and replacement appointments may be shorter. This member’s recorded term dates appear above. Council service is an individual program advisory and review appointment, not a corporate director or officer appointment.

Requirements before appointment

Applicants provide a résumé and signed individual pledge, complete qualification, background and conflict review, and undergo separate secure identity verification, normally including government ID and facial recognition through FreightValidate/AU10TIX, or a documented lawful equivalent where applicable. Appointment also requires pledge approval and a recorded Council approval vote. Prior Pledge Signatory or Recognized Participant approval is not required to apply.

This section explains the requirements of the seat. It does not publish the member’s private verification documents, disclosures or review records. Seat-specific contributions are examples within the shared Charter duties.

Full Council service termsGovernance Charter

Council service is an individual appointment. It does not grant recognition or endorsement to a member’s employer.

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