The Palletways Group, Europe’s largest and fastest growing express palletised freight network, has announced the appointment of a new UK Managing Director – Dave Walmsley, the company’s former Member and Network Development Director.
The previous UK managing director, Luis Zubialde, has stepped into a new role as Chief Operating Officer for the Palletways Group. Dave joined Palletways 11 months ago from the Lyreco Group where he worked for 25 years, latterly as group commercial director, based in Brussels. At Lyreco, he was responsible for overseeing commercial operations across 28 countries in Europe and Asia and leading a team of over 4,000 sales people and call centre employees.
Dave said: “I relish the challenge ahead as our experienced management team continue to grow the UK business. Palletways has a strong track record of customer service excellence and breaking new ground in technology and innovation.
I look forward to driving this reputation ahead and working closely with our UK members to maintain our position as the number one palletised freight network throughout Europe. I also look forward to working with Luis again in his new role.”
Palletways Group management changes
As part of his new role Luis will be responsible for the operational organisation of the business, and will oversee the managing directors of each European country to drive service excellence and solid growth for the Palletways Group across all 14 hubs in 20 countries.
Luis has overseen huge improvement in Palletways UK performance over the last two years.
He first joined Palletways in 2006 as Managing Director of Pallletways Iberia, leading its growth from a start – up operation to a well-established network and became Managing Director of the UK business in May 2014.
The changes to Palletways’ management team coincide with the recent acquisition of the business by Imperial and shaping-up for the next phase of growth across Europe.
Other changes to the management structure include:
Rachael Alpha, is appointed as Group Commercial Director, and was previously the Managing Director of Palletways Europe Gmbh. Rachael has 25 years’ experience in the logistics sector, of which she spent 22 years at UPS in senior Commercial roles.
Wolfgang Neumann, the previous interim Group Commercial Director and Non-Executive Chairman of Palletways Deutschland will continue with the business in a part time consultancy role.
Craig Hibbert, Group Strategic Member Development Director, has decided to take the opportunity to leave his full time role in the business.
Roberto Rossi, has decided to take the opportunity to step down as President of Palletways Italia and will continue to help the business as a part time consultant.
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