Burkhard Eling takes up role of CEO at Dachser

The next generation has arrived: A new Executive Board team for the new year

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KEMPTEN / HONG KONG – Media OutReach – 6 January 2021 –
On January 1, Burkhard Eling became Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and
Spokesperson of the Executive Board of logistics provider Dachser. He heads the Corporate Strategy,
Human Resources, Marketing executive unit, which also includes Corporate Key
Account Management and the Corporate Governance & Compliance division.
Eling succeeds Bernhard Simon, who will take over as Chairman of the Supervisory
Board of the family-owned company in mid-2021.

 

 

Burkhard Eling (CEO)

The
new Executive Board: (from left to right) Robert Erni (CFO), Alexander Tonn
(COO Road Logistics), Burkhard Eling (CEO), Edoardo Podestà (COO Air & Sea
Logistics) and Stefan Hohm (CDO).

 

Also moving to the Supervisory Board with Simon is the
former Chief Operations Officer (COO) Road Logistics, Michael Schilling. In
response, Dachser has made further changes to the Executive Board as of January
1, 2021. Two Dachser managers of many years’ standing have been promoted to the
logistics provider’s operational management body: Stefan Hohm as Chief
Development Officer (CDO) and Alexander Tonn as COO Road Logistics. They are
joined on the Executive Board by Robert Erni, who left DSV Panalpina to join
Dachser on September 1, 2020 and has taken up the role of Chief Financial
Officer (CFO). The five-man Executive Board team is completed by Edoardo
Podestà, who has been COO Air & Sea Logistics since October 2019.

 

Career as CFO with focus on innovation

Eling, 49, joined Dachser in 2012 as deputy head of the Finance, Legal and Tax executive unit.
He joined the Executive Board as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) the
following year, since when he has been responsible for the logistics provider’s
group-wide strategic idea and innovation management program. With a
degree in industrial engineering, Eling joined Dachser from the engineering and
service group Bilfinger SE, where he was Head of the controlling and internal
audit departments, CFO of a US subsidiary and of an international facility
management service provider. Eling started his career with the construction
companies Hochtief AG and Philipp Holzmann AG.

 

With sound judgment and agility

“My fellow board members and I are taking over an
extremely robust and fast-growing company that even the challenges of the
coronavirus crisis haven’t managed to throw off course. With their tremendous
know-how and commitment, the people at Dachser have succeeded in maintaining
the supply chains of our global customers even under adverse conditions,” says
Burkhard Eling, CEO of Dachser. “With the trust and
support of the founding family, we as an Executive Board team, will preserve
the unique, people-oriented culture of Dachser as a family-owned company. At
the same time, we will continue to develop the company with sound judgment and
agility on its way to becoming the world’s most integrated logistics provider,”
Eling continues.

 

New Executive Board team with a wealth of experience

Alexander
Tonn is a new member of
Dachser’s Executive Board as of January 1, 2021. As COO Road Logistics, he will
be responsible for the European overland transport networks for industrial
goods and food. In addition, he will continue to lead the European
Logistics Germany business unit. Tonn, 47, has been with the company for over 20 years,
having held managerial positions including at Dachser’s Allgäu logistics center
in Memmingen and at company headquarters, where he was responsible for the
logistics provider’s global contract logistics business for several years.

 

Stefan
Hohm, 48, will
head the newly created IT & Development executive unit as Chief Development
Officer (CDO). Hohm has been working for Dachser for 27 years, during which
time he has managed, among other things, the branches in Erfurt
(Thuringia) and Hof (Upper Franconia). Most recently, he was Corporate Director for the logistics
provider’s research and development work as well as its Corporate Solutions
business. Besides the further development of IT, he is now also responsible for
worldwide contract logistics.

 

Burkhard Eling’s successor as CFO is Robert Erni,
an internationally experienced logistics finance manager, who took over as CFO
on January 1, 2021 after a four-month induction and transition phase. Before
joining Dachser, the 54-year-old Swiss national was Group CFO at logistics
provider Panalpina for nearly seven years.

 

There are no changes to Dachser’s air and sea freight
business, which has been led by Edoardo Podestà, COO Air & Sea
Logistics, since October 2019. The 58-year-old Italian, based in Hong Kong,
became Managing Director of Dachser’s air and sea freight business in the Asia
Pacific business unit in 2014. Podestà is also a highly experienced Dachser
manager. He joined the company in 2003 when it acquired the joint venture Züst
Ambrosetti Far East Ltd.

About Dachser

Headquartered in Germany, Dachser is one of the world’s
leading logistics providers. Using its own in-house developed IT-systems,
Dachser incorporates transport, warehousing, and value-added services to
provide comprehensive supply chain solutions. Thanks to some 31,000 employees
based in 393 locations all over the globe, Dachser generated a consolidated net
revenue of approximately EUR 5.7 billion in 2019. The same year, the logistics
provider handled a total of 80.6 million shipments weighing 41.0 million metric
tons. Country organizations represent Dachser in 44 countries.

 

In Asia, Dachser employs more than 1,696 people in 48
locations in 12 Business Areas. Its Asia Pacific Regional Head Office is
located in Hong Kong.

 

For more information about Dachser, please visit
www.dachser.hk