RMCtv : Emma Gilthorpe appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Royal Mail Group

[POSTMAN]

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MESSAGE FROM GROUP CEO MARTIN SEIDENBERG:

I am delighted to announce the appointment of Emma Gilthorpe as Chief Executive Officer of Royal Mail Group.

Emma will join the company on 1 May 2024 and will work closely with me during an intensive induction process before taking over responsibility for Royal Mail Group in the summer. During this period I will continue as interim CEO of Royal Mail Group.

Emma is currently Chief Operating Officer at Heathrow Airport where she is responsible for the running of one of the world’s busiest airports.

Emma is a seasoned executive and brings extensive experience of working in large, complex and high profile regulated infrastructure businesses. She has an impressive track record of delivering major strategic change programmes whilst driving up performance, so she will be perfectly positioned to deliver our transformation whilst continuing to drive up quality of service.

I know she will bring a customer and employee-centric approach to delivering Royal Mail’s transformation, and I look forward to working closely with her to ensure Royal Mail reaches its true potential.

When she begins Emma will be spending a lot of time visiting sites across Royal Mail, Parcelforce and GLS, so that she can see all aspects of our operation and get to know the business. I know Emma can’t wait to get started and meet many of you over the coming months.

Please do join me in welcoming her when she joins on 1 May.

Emma Gilthorpe press release and biography.pdf

[Nickvilla20]

Here we go again…

[Jb1969]

Not exactly high profile.
Another lamb to the slaughter me thinks!

[cobrakai]

So she already knows our illustrious chairman… Tremendous

She’s also interestingly on the board of South East Water…

[Barnacle]

Another person who is well qualified to be an executive officer. Expert at managing a team. Expert at delegating to underlings. Expert at being on camera. Expert at the art of not knowing anything about the product or business because it’s just another cardboard box, all she needs to know is how to manage the people who will manage the people, who will manage the people… who do know about the cardboard box.

More joy.

[Ren Hoëk]

Here we go again boys and girls. Round 2. Royal Mail Boogaloo.

[toonshola]

As long as she doesn’t condescendingly refer to us all as “team” like the previous twat then I suppose it will be an upgrade. We all know how this will go though, 2 years of cost cutting to pay dividends for shareholders but this time with a likely gutting of the USO then a big pay off after it all ends in tears. Rinse and repeat then we start the next cycle in 2026 if RM still exists.

[derekm]

Another ceo with no experience in our business. Great appointment……not

[Barnacle]

Another ceo with no experience in our business. Great appointment……not

She’s going to be brainwashed by Marty for a few months before she’s unleashed so it will be great.

[qwerty2]

Dave ward wants to know what biscuits she likes

[sindba]

"She has an impressive track record of delivering major strategic change programmes whilst driving up performance"

Uh-oh.

[BenacreNick]

A fresh start so let's view it as a positive step.

[sindba]

"After extensive review using all my vast experience, I think what Royal Mail needs is fewer posties, lower pay, longer walks, self employed drivers and bench merging"

"Great stuff Emma, watch the share price rocket, that's why we pay you the big bucks!"

[BenacreNick]

Let's all help and make a list of jobs for Emma's day 1.

1. Reduce stamp prices.
2. Improve staff morale.
3. Ignore instructions from above and listen to real people doing a real job in their community.

[postslippete]

If she works at Heathrow Airport perhaps she will figure out a way where we can still use planes and reduce our C02 emissions so we don't all have to start and finish later?