Peter Kern

Peter Kern is the current COO at CargoX. Prior to this, they were the Managing Director at Panalpina from March 2016 to March 2019. Peter was responsible for setting go-to market strategy, revenue optimization, asset utilization and management, delivering volume and revenue budgets of Maersk Line’s trade lanes between Africa and the East Mediterranean area (12 countries, among others Italy, Turkey and Egypt) and Mediterranean and Far East. In close cooperation with the sales teams in the various countries and helped by dynamic business plans have translated the strategies set by product management to tangible local positioning and pricing policies.

From November 2002 to April 2015, Kern was the Managing Director at Maersk Adria where they were responsible for volume and revenue budgets of Maersk Adria as well as grow Maersk Line’s market share. Peter created local marketing plans, budget and execution of trade strategy on the local market.

Prior to that, Kern worked as an Export associate in logistics at Intereuropa from June 1998 to November 2002.

Peter Kern studied marketing at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics and earned their bachelor's degree from the school.

They are on a team with Simon Rucigaj - Chief Communication Officer, Janez Kranjc - Chief Blockchain Officer, and Jaka Mele - Chief Digital Officer. Peter Kern reports to Stefan Kukman, Founder & CEO.