Oliver Rupps named as trans-o-flex CEO
German parcel and express company trans-o-flex has appointed Oliver Rupps as its new chief executive officer. Rupps, 48, was most recently managing director at pharmaceutical industry equipment manufacturer Südmo Riesbürg Holding GmbH.
He took responsibility for operations and IT at Weinheim-based trans-o-flex on December 1, succeeding Wolfgang Weber, who leaves the company at the end of the year.
A former corporate planning manager at Mercedes Benz and Daimler Chrysler, Rupps has experience serving on the management boards of IT company Ilas AG, logistics services company Erwin Steinle Internationale Spedition as chairman, and automobile component supplier Ixetic GmbH as managing director.
trans-o-flex said its new managing director has business training from German business school WHU, from the Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Lyon in France, and from Texas A&M University in the United States.
Other members of the trans-o-flex board continue to include marketing and sales director Kai Schmuck, 51, and finance director Ulrich Schupp, 45.
Trans-o-flex, a member of the Eurodis network of European transport and logistics companies, has recently been expanding in the care homes sector, and in the temperature-sensitive market for pharmaceutical companies.
