Schenker (Ireland) Ltd. appoints new senior management team

Schenker (Ireland) Ltd. has further boosted and expanded its senior management in the country with three new key appointments.

Úna Hassett has joined the team as Human Resources Director and will be based at Schenker Ireland's Dublin facility. She joins from Irish Distillers Pernod Ricard where she was HR Manger Ireland for the last ten years. She also has a wealth of HR experience in her portfolio.

Declan Byrne becomes Finance Director in the new management line up and has specialist knowledge of the freight and logistics industries having held controllership roles for a number of major global logistics players. He will be also be based at Dublin.

Don O'Sullivan has been appointed Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Director, and will be based at the Shannon facility alongside Managing Director Ireland, Ray Hennessy. O'Sullivan brings more than 25 years experience of ICT and Project Management skills to his new role and has considerable experience of the hi-tech, pharmaceutical and service sector industries.

Commenting on his new team members, Ray Hennessy says: "I am delighted to announce these strategic appointments.  This is a group of highly experienced, qualified professionals and shows our intent to be a best in class, customer focused organization.”With 60,000 employees and annual sales of nearly 14 billion euros,

the integrated logistics unit of DB Schenker combines the three business units Land Transport, Air-/Ocean Freight and Contract Logistics/SCM and is one of the world's leading providers of integrated logistics services. DB Schenker offers land transport, air and ocean freight services in addition to comprehensive logistics solutions and global supply chain management from a single source. The company occupies a top position in the automotive, hi-tech and consumer goods sectors as well as trade fair logistics, special transports and services for large-scale events. The integration of the US logistics specialist BAX Global has now given rise to a global network with more than 1,500 company locations in around 150 different countries.

Source: Transportweekly