Melanie Kreis


Melanie Kreis is a German businesswoman, and the chief financial officer of Deutsche Post, the world's largest logistics company, since October 2016.

Education

Kreis attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook, US, and graduated in 1994 with a master's in physics and obtained another degree in physics in 1997 from the University of Bonn. In 2000 she graduated with a Master of Business Administration at INSEAD, France.
Kreis began her career in 1997 at the management consultancy McKinsey & Company in Cologne. In 2000 she then moved to Apax Partners, based in Munich and London. She has been working for Deutsche Post DHL since 2004 and was appointed to the board in October 2014.

Career

At Deutsche Post, Kreis began her career in the corporate development department in Bonn. Later she worked in England, advancing the integration of Exel. In 2006 Kreis was appointed executive vice president corporate office, corporate organization. Since 2009 she then served as leader of group controlling. In April 2013 she was appointed as chief financial officer of DHL Express. She has been a member of the executive board of Deutsche Post since 2014 as chief human resources officer. Since October 2016 Kreis is CFO of Deutsche Post.

Awards

Kreis was named as one of the "75 most influential women in German Business" and as "woman of the year" by Manager Magazin and Boston Consulting Group in 2016. In November 2017, she was assessed by Forbes as being the 67th most powerful woman in the world.

Family

Kreis is married and has two children.