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Swissport Global AG has appointed Detlef Trefzger as a Non-Executive Director to its Board of Directors. He is the mature CEO of Kuehne+Nagel, the keep he served from March 2013 to July 2022.

For the length of his tenure, the corporate developed into the field’s most attention-grabbing transport and logistics service provider and invested heavily in fresh applied sciences and digitalisation besides in sustainable transport and logistics companies and products. Trefzger modified into once also guilty for the acquisition of Apex Global, which greatly expanded Kuehne+Nagel’s airfreight presence in Asia.

Forward of his fair as CEO of Kuehne+Nagel, Trefzger held varied senior positions at DB Schenker AG, along side Executive Vice President of World Contract Logistics and Supply Chain Administration. He began his profession as Senior Project Supervisor at Siemens AG and later labored as Fundamental at Roland Berger & Partner in the transportation and logistics sector. He holds a doctorate from the Vienna University of Economics and Industrial.

To boot to to his fresh fair at Swissport, Trefzger serves as a member of the Board of Directors for easyJet plc (UK), Accelleron Industries AG (Switzerland), Swiss High Put AG (Switzerland), and PSA Global (Singapore). He is also an working consultant to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, a non-public funding firm, besides the proprietor and founding father of advisory firm Larix Equity.

“We’re happy to welcome Detlef Trefzger to our Board of Directors,” says David Siegel, Chairman of the Board of Swissport Global AG. “His principal notice yarn and deep exchange trip shall be priceless as we continue to blueprint bigger our world footprint and bring principal worth to our prospects.”

Trefzger’s appointment follows the scorching addition of Janina Kugel, mature Managing Board member and Chief Human Resources Officer of Siemens AG, and Julian Diaz Gonzalez, mature prolonged-serving CEO of Dufry, to the Swissport Board of Directors in July 2024. Their collective trip strengthens Swissport’s governance and can fair assist knowledge the corporate through its next allotment of strategic growth.

Swissport’s Board of Directors is guilty for atmosphere the corporate’s strategic priorities and ensuring compliance with company governance most attention-grabbing practices to beef up its world operations.

caitlin@positionglobal.com