DHL forwarding chief Roger Crook quits as pressure grows from thorny IT project

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Roger Crook, chief executive of DHL Global Forwarding, yesterday resigned his position, along with membership of the board of parent company Deutsche Post-DHL.

The group said 58-year-old Mr Crook had “stepped down from his mandate today for personal reasons” – although there has been considerable focus in recent months on his role in overseeing the €750m IT transformation project dubbed New Forwarding Environment (NFE).

The difficulties surrounding the implementation of the system have already see one previous transformation chief, Zvezdana Seegar, depart ...