Rico Back

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Rico Back
Born1954 (age 69–70)
Hamburg, Germany
OccupationBusinessman
TitleFormer CEO, Royal Mail
TermJune 2018 – May 2020
Predecessor Moya Greene
Successor Stuart Simpson (interim)
SpouseMarried
Children4

Rico Back (born 1954) is a German businessman. He is a founding member and former CEO of German Parcel (now GLS Group). He was also the CEO of Royal Mail from 2018 to 2020. [1] [2]

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Early life

Rico Back was born in 1954 in Hamburg, Germany. [3]

Career

In 1989, Back was a founding member and managing director of German Parcel, a European-wide parcel logistics firm. In 1999 Back led the sale of German Parcel to Royal Mail, subsequently rebranded as GLS. [4] The company is now one of the largest ground-based deferred parcel networks in Europe. [5] Its revenues grew from £1 billion in 2002 to £3 billion in 2019. [6] It contributed 64% of Royal Mail Group's adjusted operating profit from 30% of group revenues. [7] In 2019 the division was estimated to be worth £2 billion based on an operating profit of £180 million. [8]

Back served as the CEO of GLS for 18 years before taking over as Royal Mail Group CEO in 2018. [9] As CEO of Royal Mail Parcels (2016 to 2018), Back was responsible for all international activities as well as the national parcel business.[2] [3] He succeeded Moya Greene as Royal Mail CEO when she retired in June 2018. He received the same £790,000 pay and benefits package as Greene, plus a possible £1.3 million bonus and a £6 million golden hello; his personal taxes were paid in and to the UK. [10]

During his tenure, UK parcel volume growth reached a four-year peak in 2018 and Royal Mail's share of the UK parcel market grew to 53% by volume by March 2018, driven by winning business from online retailers. [11] In its 2019 full-year results, a year into Back's tenure as CEO, Royal Mail announced a five-year turnaround plan focused on expanding the company's parcels business internationally, addressing the growth in online deliveries. As part of the plan, Royal Mail pledged to invest a further £1.8 billion in its UK postal service. [12]

On 15 May 2020, Back resigned as CEO of Royal Mail Group, with Keith Williams taking immediate control before being replaced as interim CEO by Stuart Simpson. [13] [14] His departure came as Royal Mail experienced a rise in parcel volumes and a downturn in letter volumes during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company's revenues annual revenues in April 2020 had fallen by £22 million against the previous year.

In 2020, Back founded SKR and Back Enterprises, investment and consulting companies for investors, board members and executives. [15] In 2021, he also took on the position of the Chairman of the Board of Tiger Asset Management AG, based in Switzerland. [16]

Personal life

Back and his family live in an apartment overlooking Lake Zurich, [17] Switzerland, where they have been resident since 2007 and where he is legally domiciled. [18]

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Business positions
Preceded by CEO of Royal Mail
2018–2020		Succeeded by
Keith Williams (Interim)


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