Hellmann Worldwide Logistics: Personnel
Hellmann expands Executive Board
The logistics service provider Hellmann Worldwide Logistics is strengthening its Executive Board in order to lay the personnel foundations for further strategic growth.
The position of Chief Operating Officer Air & Sea has been split into two separate areas of responsibility so that the strategic expansion of the two product areas can be driven forward in an even more focused manner at Executive Board level in future. Since January, Jan Kleine-Lasthues as Chief Operating Officer Airfreight and Marcus Leaver as Chief Operating Officer Seafreight have been responsible for the global strategic development of the respective segments. As members of the Executive Board, both positions report directly to Reiner Heiken, CEO Hellmann Worldwide Logistics.
Jan Kleine-Lasthues has over 20 years of professional experience in the logistics industry and has been working for Hellmann for eight years - since 2017 as Global Head of Airfreight.
Marcus Leaver, who has worked in the logistics industry for 39 years, was already employed by Hellmann from 1998 to 2015, where he was most recently responsible for the product area as Global Head of Seafreight and played a key role in its further development.
"With Marcus Leaver and Jan Kleine-Lasthues, we have not only brought long-standing colleagues onto the Executive Board, but also proven experts in their respective fields. With this powerful team, we are now very well qualified and future-oriented, so that we can initiate strategic and, above all, sustainable growth from the management board," says Reiner Heiken, CEO Hellmann Worldwide Logistics.
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