“Helping great people achieve their dreams and positively impact the planet“
A truly global citizen, Roger has lived and worked in many different countries on all three major continents of the world during the last 30 years. A large part of his career has been in the international corporate world, in commercial and general management roles. At DHL Express, his last key roles included Head of Global Sales, CEO Americas and CEO Asia. He then took on the role of Global CEO for DHL Forwarding & Freight and became a Board Member of DeutschePost DHL.
A few years ago, Roger decided to leave the corporate world to fulfil a long-time dream and make the transition to working amongst thriving, innovative and ambitious Entrepreneurs. Roger’s call to joining a community that aims at disrupting the world started early: when he joined DHL, the company’s mission was indeed to disrupt the transportation industry. It also offered him a platform to test his entrepreneurial skills when he set up Global Customer Solutions, an independent global business unit that still operates today at DHL. Being now part of the tech revolution, disrupting traditional industries and being surrounded by high-energy, resilient and fast learning individuals feels like coming home to Roger: it is energising and helps him fulfil his dream of supporting the change for a better world. He is now advising and mentoring start-ups’ founders and serving in CEO, Chairman and board advisory roles at early stage start-ups.
Roger has an extensive leadership and business experience of managing complex, multi-cultural, global network businesses throughout the world. Customer focused, he has sharp commercial and financial business acumen. His functional expertise covers areas such as strategy, business development and internationalisation, marketing, finance, operations, leading teams and designing organisations. A mentor at heart, he thoroughly enjoys helping individuals and teams to grow, and to manage business challenges and opportunities.
A British citizen, Roger holds a degree in Engineering from the university of Liverpool, an MBA from Manchester Business School, and has attended an Executive Leadership program at Wharton Business School. He enjoys a nice glass of wine, loves music, hiking, biking, sailing and exploring the world.
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