Olaf Gelhausen will join APM Terminals as chief operating officer (COO) on 15 November 2023. He will be in charge of all COO duties, including Global Operations, Asset Management, Automation, Project Execution, Asset Design and Engineering, LEAN, Decarbonization, and Procurement.
Gelhausen comes to APM Terminals from Brose, where he was a member of the Executive Board and was in charge of the company’s overall transformation, including Organizational Development and Project Management, HR, LEAN, and Business Service Centers.
“I look forward to welcome Olaf Gelhausen to our team at this important time for APM Terminals. With his experience from both industrial and technology industries, he is the perfect fit to take APM Terminals to the next step in our goal to be the World’s best terminal company,” stated Keith Svendsen, CEO of APM Terminals.
Olaf Gelhausen was previously COO of Thyssenkrupp Bilstein, where he was in charge of Manufacturing Plants, Product and Process Development, Supply Chain and Quality Management, Operations, IT, and HSSE. A new digitalization and automation strategy was adopted under his supervision, including machine learning technologies, collaborative robotics, big data analysis, and additive manufacturing.
Olaf Gelhausen also served as Hella’s general manager in China and has extensive expertise in Operations, Procurement, and Supply Chain leadership roles with Infineon Technologies, having worked in the United States, Singapore, and Germany.
