Andrew Mitchell

Vice President, Regional Sector Head, Life Sciences & Healthcare EMEA DHL Customer Solutions & Innovation

Andrew is responsible for developing and maintaining DHL’s Life Sciences & Healthcare business throughout the EMEA region across the different DHL business units. Having joined the DPDHL Group in 2008, he is a member of the DHL Supply Chain MLEMEA Life Sciences Board and a member of the DHL CSI Global Life Sciences management team. He is based at the DHL Global Forwarding regional headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. Prior to that he was responsible for developing DHL’s Healthcare and Life Science business throughout Asia-Pacific for the Supply Chain business unit. Before that he spent some years at Schenker (formerly BAX Global) where he was responsible for logistics Business Development across the Asia Pacific region. He has 15 years operational experience in the pharmaceutical logistics industry, with the bulk of those years spent with Sigma Company Limited, based in Melbourne, Australia, where he was the regional operations manager for Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory. After leaving Sigma, he joined the DKSH (Diethelm Keller Sieber Hegner) Group in Jakarta, Indonesia and later moved with the company to Bangkok, Thailand where he was Head of Supply Chain - managing the distribution and delivery of healthcare and pharmaceutical products to hospitals and drugstores. During his time at DKSH, Andrew implemented SAP WM in Thailand and undertook a comprehensive supply chain overhaul and re-branding programme. He also undertook various projects in China and Taiwan.

Andrew has a Master of Business (Logistics Management) and a Grad.Dip with Distinction (Transport & Distribution Management) both from RMIT University in Melbourne plus a Bachelor of Business (Accounting & IT) from Swinburne University, a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology & Philosophy) from Monash University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology from Charles Sturt University in Australia.