Royal Mail appoints Heathrow executive as new CEO

(Sharecast News) - Royal Mail has appointed a senior executive from Heathrow to become its next boss as parent company International Distribution Services looks to turn its fortunes around. Emma Gilthorpe, the west London airport's chief operating officer since 2020, will join Royal Mail in May, IDS said in a statement on Tuesday.

The job is a new post created under IDS boss Martin Seidenberg. The group's parcels business, GLS, has a separate CEO, Karl Pfaff.

Seidenberg, who took on the Royal Mail job on an interim basis last July, will hold the reins until Gilthorpe joins.

Reporting by Frank Prenesti for Sharecast.com