DHL Express, the world’s leading international express service provider, recently reported that the Senior Director of IT & Logistics UAE and Regional Head of Digitalization Praveen Sashi, has been ranked first place in the logistics industry and sixth in the region on the CIO Middle East top 50 list, which admits leading senior technology executives driving innovation, strengthening resiliency, and regulating rapid change in the Middle East region. 

The CIO50 Middle East awards ceremony was held virtually in February 2021 as part of this year’s IDC Middle East CIO Summit, where a large number of nominees from across industries and the region were narrowed down to 50 winners. Nominees were assessed based on three core pillars; innovation, leadership, and resiliency. The CIO50 Middle East awards were set up to honor transformational, inspiring, and enduring IT Executives and their teams, who succeeded in propelling growth and introducing technological innovations across their organization, despite the challenges and volatility brought upon by the pandemic during the past year. 

This award stands testament to DHL’s efforts in driving innovation, digitalization, and enabling its employees to deliver on its business priorities - developing customer and employee experience while focusing on operational efficiency. In a world of constant change, DHL Express remains committed to adopting digital transformation and creating an environment for its employees that enhances creativity and innovation, while nurturing new ideas and strategies in order to achieve its business agenda as a leading logistics company.

It’s an increasingly digital world, through technology, innovation, and resilience our IT superstars helped deliver excellence through many great stories that underscore outstanding teamwork, passion, and a can-do attitude. After all, technology is about enabling people more than anything else. So, it was a truly proud moment for our team’s effort to be recognized at the IDG CIO Middle East awards 2021. “ said Praveen Sashi. 

It gives us great pleasure that Praveen Sashi has emerged among the top 50 technology leaders in the Middle East by CIO-IDG. This award is a great recognition of the outstanding team we have in MENA and reiterates our ongoing commitment to driving and enabling digitalisation in the region, as a leader in the logistics field. With the qualified professionals and advanced technologies at hand, we are certainly able to deliver our purpose of connecting people and improving lives in today’s digital world.” said DHL’s Chief Information Officer - MENA, Charbel El-Achkar.

Over the past years, DHL accomplished key milestones along with improving its IT landscape with upgrades to back-end systems, standardization of applications. This has laid the foundation and necessary groundwork for its digital transformation program, led by Praveen Sashi, permitting the company to prepare for future growth through the implementation of tools such as data science, robotics, RPA and blockchain.