Melanie Kreis

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.[1]

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.[3] She has been working for Deutsche Post DHL since 2004 and was appointed to the board in October 2014.[1]

At Deutsche Post, Kreis began her career in the corporate development department in Bonn. Later she worked in England, advancing the integration of Exel.[4] In 2006 Kreis was appointed executive vice president corporate office, corporate organization. Since 2009 she then served as leader of group controlling.[1] In April 2013 she was appointed as chief financial officer (CFO) of DHL Express.[3] She has been a member of the executive board of Deutsche Post since 2014 as chief human resources officer.[5] Since October 2016 Kreis is CFO of Deutsche Post.[3]

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 (BCG) in 2016.[6] In November 2017, she was assessed by Forbes as being the 67th most powerful woman in the world.[7][2]

Kreis is married and has two children.[8]