While Allan takes over GBS after Appel successfully established these Shared Services functions, the latter will keep his responsibility as Head of GCS, the unit which manages the relationships with Deutsche Post World Net's top 100 customers. Appel will also continue to run Mail International, Corporate Regulatory Management as well as the “First Choice”-program, which is Deutsche Post World Net's quality and customer service improvement initiative.
Edgar Ernst (55) informed the Supervisory Board that he wishes to step down as CFO on September 30th. He intends to focus on his academic career. Since 2006, Ernst has an honorary professorship at the highly reputed business school WHU in Koblenz-Vallendar.
The Supervisory Board accepted Ernst's intention and expressed its gratefulness for his long-term and successful executive management service at the DPWN board. Ernst was instrumental for positioning the former state-owned postal office to a leading global logistics player. He was also key to the success of the IPOs of Deutsche Post in 2000 and Deutsche Postbank in 2004.