DHL Global Forwarding names Henk Venema as EVP Global Airfreight
Venema brings over 20 years of operational experience to strengthen DHL’s reliability and customer-focused airfreight strategy.
DHL Global Forwarding has named Henk Venema as its new Executive Vice President for Global Airfreight, a move aimed at strengthening the forwarder’s reliability, transparency and service performance in a demanding airfreight environment.
Oscar de Bok announced the appointment, highlighting Venema’s extensive operational experience across carriers, capacity, service quality, pricing and daily network management. Venema has built a career spanning more than 20 years at Exel, UTI, Geodis and, for nearly a decade, DHL. His background across these global logistics companies has given him a broad understanding of freight operations and customer-facing service.
Before stepping into the global airfreight role, Venema led DHL’s Benelux business. This regional leadership experience, combined with his long exposure to major international supply chain organisations, places him among the senior operational leaders within DHL’s global forwarding division.
De Bok said Venema’s deep understanding of the airfreight product will support DHL’s ambition to deliver consistently, act with speed and create real value for customers. He added that Venema’s leadership will help reinforce the reliability and service performance that customers expect from a forwarder.
As EVP Global Airfreight, Venema is expected to guide DHL Global Forwarding in its next steps towards building a resilient, customer-focused and competitive airfreight organisation.
