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The LogTech company InstaFreight is strengthening its management team with a Chief Financial Officer (CFO): Martin Leopold joins for the newly created position from the industry giant DHL Freight. At the scale-up InstaFreight, one of the leading digital logistics companies for European land transport, the 54-year-old graduate mathematician will continue to drive dynamic growth together with the founders.
(Berlin) Martin Leopold has many years of experience in logistics, particularly in the areas of finance, sales, and IT. From 2014 to 2017, he served as Chief Financial Officer at Deutsche Post DHL Group. He then took on the role of Chief Sales Officer at the logistics giant in Bonn.
“With the decision to join InstaFreight, I have the desire to contribute to securing both well-established and new corporate structures in a dynamically growing scale-up. InstaFreight has set out to accelerate the digitization of European road freight transport and to build a leading digital logistics provider in Europe. I firmly believe in InstaFreight’s vision and am very much looking forward to this exciting challenge,” explains Martin Leopold the motives for his move. “I am convinced that we can both unlock further potential in our business model and quickly become profitable.”
Another Major Development Step
“With Martin Leopold’s transition to us, we are achieving another significant development step. With his expertise and leadership skills, we at InstaFreight aim to continue and expand the course that has made us one of the fastest-growing providers of logistics services in road freight transport on the European continent,” says Philipp Ortwein, Managing Director and Co-Founder of InstaFreight, reflecting on the prospects for the company with the new addition.
Extraordinarily Fast Growth
“InstaFreight has grown extraordinarily fast in recent years. To maintain this momentum, we are strengthening our team this autumn with a highly respected manager in the industry. Martin Leopold will continue to write this success story together with the existing C-level team while also setting his own accents,” states Dirk Reich, Chairman of InstaFreight, regarding the new appointment.
Photo: © Instafreight
