Overview
- The company said long-serving finance chief Melanie Kreis will not extend her contract and will leave when it ends at the close of May 2027, and she has pledged to remain in post until then.
- Deutsche Post announced that Joe Joseph, an Australian who has spent more than 28 years at DHL Express and 12 years as its divisional CFO, will step up as group chief financial officer in June 2027.
- Board chair Katrin Suder and CEO Tobias Meyer praised Kreis’s two decades of impact and framed the move as an orderly, board-led succession to protect governance and results.
- Promoting an internal DHL executive underscores the group’s emphasis on continuity and operational experience and aligns with its shift to present the company more widely as DHL.
- Kreis joined the group in 2004 and has been on the executive board since 2014, first running human resources and then finance, a background the company says helps explain the careful timing of the handover.