Mr. Slade is the representative director and president for DHL Global Forwarding Japan, the freight and forwarding division of DHL. He has served in this post since April 2011. He is also a member of the DHL Global Forwarding Asia Pacific Management Board and has been chairman of the Logistics and Freight Committee, European Business Council in Japan since January 2012.
A native of Canada, he has spent the last fifteen years living in the Asia-Pacific region, working in the logistics industry. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto, St. Michael’s College, with a BA in history and political science.