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Maersk says its revamped organizational structure and new executive leadership team will navigate the Danish group through challenging times ahead
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The changes, which will take effect from February 1, 2023, are introduced by CEO Vincent Clerc, who assumed as the group’s chief executive on January 1
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Clerc says the new executive leadership team includes Maersk veterans and experienced leaders from outside the company
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The new organizational structure is shaped around 15 roles and areas of responsibility, Clerc says
A new executive leadership team has been unveiled by A.P. Moller-Maersk to steer the new organizationally restructured group through future challenges, a softening market and customers radically seeking opportunities to improve their supply chains.
Danish integrated logistics giant Maersk said the changes will take effect from February 1, 2023, and follow Vincent Clerc’s tenure as group chief executive starting January 1.
“The new organizational structure is shaped around 15 roles and areas of responsibility,” Clerc said in a press statement on Maersk’s website on January 10.
Clerc took over from Soren Skou, who retired last December after nearly seven years of leading Maersk’s transformation from a diversified conglomerate to an integrated, customer-centric end-to-end logistics company.
“The business has executed well during the past years, and we have a highly engaged and competent global team ready for the next miles of our transformation,” Clerc said.
“We face a challenging global economic outlook, a softening market and, at the same time, our customers are looking to radically improve their supply chains to make them more resilient and agile. This creates urgent needs as well as unique opportunities.
Over the past three years, Maersk has sailed into the headwinds of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ukraine war sparked by Russia’s invasion on February 24, 2022, supply chain disruptions on major trade routes and a continuing slide in shipping rates that began in January 2022.
In the first two years of the pandemic, the global container shipping industry saw earnings balloon as port congestion in Asia and the West triggered delays that pushed up cargo rates to historic levels. Maersk delivered record Q3 2022 revenue of US$22.8 billion and EBIT of $9.5 billion, mainly driven by ocean freight rates.
“To navigate through and beyond this environment, we will intensify our focus on cost discipline and service quality while increasing customer centricity, and decision power in the front line.”
Clerc said Maersk’s new executive leadership team includes leaders who have been with Maersk for a long time and experienced leaders from outside the company who will bring “increased diversity of thought, age, gender and nationality”.
The CEO said he looks forward to working with the team, which comprises himself and 15 other executives, and all Maersk personnel in the new structure to carry the group’s strong momentum into the next phase of its strategy to accelerate business transformation.
Clerc said the team will jointly execute Maersk’s Integrator strategy and create strong alignment across the enterprise as well as clear ownership and accountability for key aspects of the next phase of the group’s strategy.
The members of Maersk’s executive leadership team are:
- Vincent Clerc, CEO, A.P. Moller-Maersk
- Aymeric Chandavoine, president, Europe Region
- Caroline Pontoppidan, chief corporate affairs officer & general counsel
- Ditlev Blicher, president, Asia Pacific Region;
- Henriette H. Thygesen, chief delivery officer
- Johan Sigsgaard, chief product officer – Ocean
- Karsten Kildahl, chief commercial officer & Latin America, Africa, and West-Central Asia
- Katharina Poehlmann, head of strategy
- Keith Svendsen, CEO of APM Terminals
- Narin Phol, president, North America Region
- Navneet Kapoor, chief technology & information officer
- Patrick Jany, chief financial officer
- Rabab Boulos, chief infrastructure officer
- Rotem Hershko, chief product officer – logistics & services
- Silvia Ding, head of transformation
- Susana Elvira Meire, chief people officer.
