Carl-Friedrich zu Knyphausen

Carl-Friedrich zu Knyphausen is a retail fulfillment expert and has been working in the logistics industry for over 23 years. First on the service provider side (Deutsche Post DHL, arvato Bertelsmann), then on the retailer and digital marketplace side (Zalando, Delivery Hero). He has covered various functions (sales, operations for multiple warehouses, digital product development, project management) with full P&L responsibility/sales budgets as Director / Vice President. Together with his team, he designed and expanded the transportation and logistics network for Zalando, i.e. highly automated warehouses (>800k sqm warehouse space, >1bn € CAPEX) including the introduction of pick & and transport robots, and developed new B2B logistics products for Zalando's partner platform. At Delivery Hero, he headed the central Quick Commerce Local Shops & Deliver Anything division for last mile delivery. For many years, he has been advising companies in various growth phases on logistics network design, outsourcing and intralogistics, including AGVs. He regularly invests in start-up companies in the logistics sector.