DHL Global Forwarding on 24 May announced that Kelvin Leung, its CEO for Asia Pacific will retire after more than two decades with the company.

Replacing Leung is Niki Frank, who is the current CEO for South Asia. He will assume the post held by Leung for almost 12 years starting 1 July.

Frank started his career at DPDHL Group in 2012, joining as vice president of corporate strategy. He played a major role in the company’s turnaround program and helped shape the company’s “Simplify” strategy, DHL described.

In 2019, he assumed the role of CEO for India before taking on additional responsibilities for the newly created subregion of South Asia in 2021.

Kelvin, meanwhile, took on the position of CEO, DHL Global Forwarding North Asia Pacific in 2008 and was promoted to CEO of Asia Pacific in 2011. DHL describes him as being instrumental in transforming the region by improving freight forwarding solutions, making DHL Global Forwarding a pioneer of rail solutions between Asia and Europe, and growing the intra-Asia business substantially.