Realignment of the Hermes Executive Board
Hermes Logistik Gruppe Deutschland (HLGD) and Hermes Transport Logistics (HTL) will now be led by a common Executive Board. Frank Iden and Frank Rausch, who until now have been respectively responsible for the individual businesses will, with immediate effect, preside over the board as joint CEO. The aim of this is to bring the market presence and sales approach of the two independently acting companies into closer alignment. Also appointed as Members of the Executive Board are Olaf Schabirosky and Thomas Horst, both of whom are taking over newly created departments. "HLGD and HTL have traditionally worked in close cooperation often targeting the same market groups. Ultimately goods ordered online only reach the end consumer through the coordination of various logistic services. Accordingly we are synchronising the structure of our transport operations under the proven leadership of Frank Iden and Frank Rausch. The newly created Executive Board will check where cross-company forms of organisation can be developed or synergies generated," explains Hanjo Schneider, Otto Group Executive Board Member for the Service Segment and CEO Hermes Europe. Joint CEO leads logistics in Germany Within the newly created executive board, Frank Iden will, as CEO, also be responsible for the sales, marketing & strategy. Reporting to him will be members of the executive board Stephan Schiller, responsible for Sea & Air, Eckhard Fechtner, for International development, and Thomas Horst, who will preside over the newly created sales business unit. As CEO, Frank Rausch will head-up the operating business and the commercial departments. Reporting to him will be member of the executive board Dirk Rahn, responsible for operations and Olaf Schabirosky who is taking over the business unit projects & services in the form of a newly created department. New Hermes executives The graduate industrial engineer Olaf Schabirosky began his professional career at the Otto Group in 1994 within internal consultancy. Thereafter he was responsible for Otto Doosan in South Korea from 1999 to 2003. After further management positions within purchasing control and during the founding of the joint-venture company Blue Yonder, Olaf Schabirosky was most recently responsible for cross-company projects within the Otto Group. Thomas Horst started his professional career with Spedition Pracht GmbH before changing to TNT Express GmbH in 1989, where most recently he was responsible for the Troisdorf Headquarters. From August 2005, Thomas Horst was employed as Sales Director with United Parcel Service (UPS) in Munich. In 2010 he became Head of the sales business unit for Hermes Logistik Gruppe Deutschland and considerably expanded the growing parcel business by acquiring clients from outside the Otto Group. "Olaf Schabirosky and Thomas Horst are proven experts in their particular areas of responsibility and have already been of great service to the company. We wish them both lots of success in their new duties," Hanjo Schneider declares.