Deutsche Post today appointed Roger Crook head of its DHL GlobalForwarding, Freight division, due to strategic differences with its former head, Hermann Ude.
The company said it had agreed on an early termination of Ude’s boardmembership “by mutual consent and on the best of terms, amid diverging views on the futurestrategic focus of the company”. Ude stepped down from his role as of the end of businessyesterday, and will leave the company officially on 31 March.
Crook was previously was in charge of DHL Express’s Asia Pacific, EasternEurope, Middle East and Africa business unit.
Native to the UK, Crook has run the group’s Express business in Asia sincethe end of 2010. He is a member of the global Board of Management for Express and in additionoversees all global sales activities of the business unit. Previously, Crook held the position ofCEO DHL Express Americas. He has also held other responsibilities in the US as well as Europe.Crook also played a material part in the creation of Global Customer Solutions, the global unit heco-founded in 2002 to look after the group’s top 100 customers. Crook will be based in Bonn andSingapore.
In its meeting today, the Supervisory Board also extended the board membermandate of Ken Allen, CEO of DHL Express, by another five years starting 1 March, 2012.
