A.P. Moller-Maersk has announced changes to its executive board as it takes further steps to accelerate the integration of the company.
Maersk in a release December 17 said it has appointed Vincent Clerc as CEO of Ocean and Logistics and Henriette Hallberg Thygesen as CEO of Towage, Manufacturing & Others.
“A year ago, we integrated our customer facing roles across the company. We are now ready to accelerate the execution of our strategy through increased commercial and operational integration,” said Soren Skou, A.P. Moller-Maersk group CEO.
“With the new leadership structure announced today, I am confident that we will increase the pace. We have a simple and agile foundation for profitable growth and the new Executive Board is united in the goal of integrating our value proposition and maximizing the value creation across the business,” Skou said.
Effective immediately, Clerc is appointed as CEO of Ocean and Logistics, uniting the teams in operations focused on ocean delivery with the commercial team “to ensure a better offering of integrated services to our more than 70,000 customers and to facilitate end-to-end process thinking.”
Furthermore, Thygesen is appointed as member of the executive board in a new role as CEO of Towage, Manufacturing & Others, where she will be responsible for all independent businesses, with focus on driving additional synergies.
“We have successfully completed the first phases of our transformation,” said Jim Hagemann Snabe, chairman of the board of directors of Moller-Maersk.
“With the new structure and Henriette Hallberg Thygesen joining our Executive Board, Søren Skou and his team are ready to execute on the next steps in the transformation, ensuring full focus on customer value, strengthening our end-to-end delivery capabilities and creating profitable growth.”
The new executive board is now composed of group CEO Skou; Thygesen, who is also group executive vice president; Clerc, also group executive vice president; Morten Engelstoft, group executive vice president and CEO for APM Terminals; and Carolina Dybeck Happe, group CFO.
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