Brambles Limited announced the appointment of Xavier Garijo to the newly- created role of CEO, CHEP Americas from 1 January 2024, combining the leadership of the CHEP businesses in the North America and Latin America regions. This change in leadership structure in the Americas region reflects the increasing collaboration and interconnectivity between CHEP's North American and Latin American operations and follows the decision by Laura Nador, the President of CHEP North America, to leave Brambles after an outstanding 20-year career with the business. Ms. Nador will step out of the role on 31 December 2023 but will continue to work with Brambles until 30 June 2024 to ensure an orderly transition.

Mr. Garijo will join Brambles' Executive Leadership Team on 1 January 2024 and all of Ms. Nador's current direct reports, as well as Paola Floris, President of CHEP Latin America, will report to him from this date. Mr. Garijo was most recently responsible for DB Schenker's global contract logistics business which had a workforce of 40,000 people in 60 countries. In this role he developed and implemented a successful transformation strategy, introducing value-added services which accelerated profitable growth through customer centricity, operational excellence, automation and digitisation.

Prior to that he worked in the US for 20 years, including managing end-to-end supply chains and operations for Revlon, Reckitt Benckiser and Unilever. Mr. Garijo was educated in France and holds an Engineering degree from École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris and a Masters of Science from the Université de Paris. He will be based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.