{"id":10912,"date":"2021-01-06T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/01\/06\/burkhard-eling-takes-up-role-of-ceo-at-dachser\/"},"modified":"2021-01-06T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T02:00:00","slug":"burkhard-eling-takes-up-role-of-ceo-at-dachser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/01\/06\/burkhard-eling-takes-up-role-of-ceo-at-dachser\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkhard Eling takes up role of CEO at Dachser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n                            <!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">\n                               The next generation has arrived: A new Executive Board team for the new year                             <\/p>\n<p>KEMPTEN \/ HONG KONG &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a> &#8211; 6 January 2021 &#8211;<b><br \/>\nOn January 1, Burkhard Eling became Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and<br \/>\nSpokesperson of the Executive Board of logistics provider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dachser.hk\/\">Dachser<\/a>. He heads the Corporate Strategy,<br \/>\nHuman Resources, Marketing executive unit, which also includes Corporate Key<br \/>\nAccount Management and the Corporate Governance &amp; Compliance division.<br \/>\nEling succeeds Bernhard Simon, who will take over as Chairman of the Supervisory<br \/>\nBoard of the family-owned company in mid-2021.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>\u00a0<img src=\"https:\/\/release.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/Images\/Thumb\/500x0\/115536\/Burkhard-Eling-CEO.jpg#image-115536\" width=\"500\"\/><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>Burkhard Eling (CEO)<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b><img src=\"https:\/\/release.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/Images\/Thumb\/500x0\/115543\/DACHSER-EX-Board.jpg#image-115543\" width=\"500\"\/><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i>The<br \/>\nnew Executive Board: (from left to right) Robert Erni (CFO), Alexander Tonn<br \/>\n(COO Road Logistics), Burkhard Eling (CEO), Edoardo Podest\u00e0 (COO Air &amp; Sea<br \/>\nLogistics) and Stefan Hohm (CDO).<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Also moving to the Supervisory Board with Simon is the<br \/>\nformer Chief Operations Officer (COO) Road Logistics, Michael Schilling. In<br \/>\nresponse, Dachser has made further changes to the Executive Board as of January<br \/>\n1, 2021. Two Dachser managers of many years&#8217; standing have been promoted to the<br \/>\nlogistics provider&#8217;s operational management body: Stefan Hohm as Chief<br \/>\nDevelopment Officer (CDO) and Alexander Tonn as COO Road Logistics. They are<br \/>\njoined on the Executive Board by Robert Erni, who left DSV Panalpina to join<br \/>\nDachser on September 1, 2020 and has taken up the role of Chief Financial<br \/>\nOfficer (CFO). The five-man Executive Board team is completed by Edoardo<br \/>\nPodest\u00e0, who has been COO Air &amp; Sea Logistics since October 2019. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Career as CFO with focus on innovation<\/b><b\/><\/p>\n<p>Eling, 49, joined Dachser in 2012 as deputy head of the Finance, Legal and Tax executive unit.<br \/>\nHe joined the Executive Board as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) the<br \/>\nfollowing year, since when he has been responsible for the logistics provider&#8217;s<br \/>\ngroup-wide strategic idea and innovation management program.<b> <\/b>With a<br \/>\ndegree in industrial engineering, Eling joined Dachser from the engineering and<br \/>\nservice group Bilfinger SE, where he was Head of the controlling and internal<br \/>\naudit departments, CFO of a US subsidiary and of an international facility<br \/>\nmanagement service provider. Eling started his career with the construction<br \/>\ncompanies Hochtief AG and Philipp Holzmann AG.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>With sound judgment and agility<\/b><b\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My fellow board members and I are taking over an<br \/>\nextremely robust and fast-growing company that even the challenges of the<br \/>\ncoronavirus crisis haven&#8217;t managed to throw off course. With their tremendous<br \/>\nknow-how and commitment, the people at Dachser have succeeded in maintaining<br \/>\nthe supply chains of our global customers even under adverse conditions,&#8221; says<br \/>\nBurkhard Eling, CEO of Dachser. &#8220;With the trust and<br \/>\nsupport of the founding family, we as an Executive Board team, will preserve<br \/>\nthe unique, people-oriented culture of Dachser as a family-owned company. At<br \/>\nthe same time, we will continue to develop the company with sound judgment and<br \/>\nagility on its way to becoming the world&#8217;s most integrated logistics provider,&#8221;<br \/>\nEling continues. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>New Executive Board team with a wealth of experience<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Alexander<br \/>\nTonn<\/b> is a new member of<br \/>\nDachser&#8217;s Executive Board as of January 1, 2021. As COO Road Logistics, he will<br \/>\nbe responsible for the European overland transport networks for industrial<br \/>\ngoods and food. In addition, he will continue to lead the European<br \/>\nLogistics Germany business unit. Tonn, 47, has been with the company for over 20 years,<br \/>\nhaving held managerial positions including at Dachser&#8217;s Allg\u00e4u logistics center<br \/>\nin Memmingen and at company headquarters, where he was responsible for the<br \/>\nlogistics provider&#8217;s global contract logistics business for several years. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Stefan<br \/>\nHohm<\/b>, 48,<b> <\/b>will<br \/>\nhead the newly created IT &amp; Development executive unit as Chief Development<br \/>\nOfficer (CDO). Hohm has been working for Dachser for 27 years, during which<br \/>\ntime he has managed, among other things, the branches in Erfurt<br \/>\n(Thuringia) and Hof (Upper Franconia). Most recently, he was Corporate Director for the logistics<br \/>\nprovider&#8217;s research and development work as well as its Corporate Solutions<br \/>\nbusiness. Besides the further development of IT, he is now also responsible for<br \/>\nworldwide contract logistics.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Burkhard Eling&#8217;s successor as CFO is <b>Robert Erni<\/b>,<br \/>\nan internationally experienced logistics finance manager, who took over as CFO<br \/>\non January 1, 2021 after a four-month induction and transition phase. Before<br \/>\njoining Dachser, the 54-year-old Swiss national was Group CFO at logistics<br \/>\nprovider Panalpina for nearly seven years. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are no changes to Dachser&#8217;s air and sea freight<br \/>\nbusiness, which has been led by <b>Edoardo Podest\u00e0<\/b>, COO Air &amp; Sea<br \/>\nLogistics, since October 2019. The 58-year-old Italian, based in Hong Kong,<br \/>\nbecame Managing Director of Dachser&#8217;s air and sea freight business in the Asia<br \/>\nPacific business unit in 2014. Podest\u00e0 is also a highly experienced Dachser<br \/>\nmanager. He joined the company in 2003 when it acquired the joint venture Z\u00fcst<br \/>\nAmbrosetti Far East Ltd.<\/p>\n<h2\/><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/View\/60432#Contact\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next generation has arrived: A new Executive Board team for the new year KEMPTEN \/ HONG KONG &#8211; Media OutReach &#8211; 6 January 2021 &#8211; On January 1, Burkhard Eling became Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Spokesperson of the Executive Board of logistics provider Dachser. 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