Frank Appel

Frank Burkhard Bernhard Appel ( born July 29, 1961 in Hamburg ) is a German manager. He is a member of the Board since February 18, 2008 and Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Post AG, appointed until 2017 since 2002.

Life

Appel grew up in Hamburg - Bergedorf. According to self-reported a classic middle-class child in a new district of Hamburg, in a terraced house with 90 square meters, as I shared with my brother 15 years eight square meters. His father was active in the distribution of a shampoo company and he earned his first money with 16 years in the holidays by setting up and are characteristic for cosmetic products in hamburger shops. At 18, he wanted to become a professor of neurobiology. After graduation in 1981 at the high school and Lohbruegge Military service in the Air Force in the ground service, he started with 22 years first at the University of Munich to study chemistry and graduated in 1989 with a diploma. In 1993 he obtained his doctorate in neurobiology at the ETH Zurich on the Importance of the immunoglobulin -like domains and the fibronectin type III homologous repeats of the neural cell adhesion molecule L1 neurite outgrowth for, cell body adhesion and signal transduction.

Appel is married, has two children and lives in King Winter in Bonn.

Career

1993 Frank Appel entered the service of the German branch of the management consultant McKinsey, where he became in 1999 a member of the Board. The following year, he became the Central Division Head for Corporate Development for Deutsche Post AG.

He was appointed to the Group Management Board member in 2002 and is responsible for the department 's Global Business Services, the global key account management Global Customer Solutions and the operational management of the First Choice Program. In 2005 he organized the takeover of the British logistics group Exel. After the many years of Deutsche Post CEO Klaus Zumwinkel had offered his resignation in February 2008, Frank Appel was elected unanimously by the Board on 18 February and with immediate effect, the new CEO of Swiss Post. Even before the tax allegations against Zumwinkel Appel was touted as his possible successor. He inherited Zumwinkel as Chairman of Postbank. December 31, 2010 Appel resigned his Supervisory Board mandate at Postbank.