DSV has made a series of appointments to its group executive committee whilst renaming its solutions division to contract logistics, effective April 30, 2025. These changes come after the company obtained all regulatory clearances for its acquisition of DB Schenker earlier this week.
HLPFI has been across DSV’s acquisition of DB Schenker – including reporting that the deal had been cleared – and now the Denmark-headquartered logistics firm has beefed up its group executive committee.
Following three decades of service to DSV, Søren Schmidt will leave the company and will be replaced by Helmut Schweighofer. Currently ceo of DB Schenker’s region Europe with 40,000 employees, Schweighofer will become DSV’s road division ceo.
Vishal Sharma, presently ceo of DB Schenker’s region Asia Pacific and with more than 30 years of industry and global executive leadership experience, will become chief commercial officer of the committee. He succeeds Morten Landry, who will continue with DSV as chief commercial officer of the firm’s largest division, air & sea, from Q1 2026. In the meantime, Landry will remain part of DSV’s commercial executive team.
Along with Saskia Blochberger joining the DSV executive committee as group chief people officer – taking over from current head of group HR Helle Bach – ceo of DB Schenker Jochen Thewes is expected to be nominated for election to the board at a general meeting once the acquisition has been finalised.
“We want to create clarity and move ahead with the integration as soon as the acquisition is closed. Therefore, we have started our nomination and appointment process for executives, using the ‘best athlete’ principle,” said Jens Lund, group ceo, DSV. “Executives from both DSV and Schenker have been assessed based on competencies and achievements, as well as professional and personal plans for the future.”
Additional appointments have been made internally, and further appointments will be made in due course, according to DSV.
