Aramex, the global logistics solutions provider, has announced the appointment of Paul Newell as Business Development Manager North America. Newell, will be based at the company's Heathrow facility.

Newell has considerable experience of sales within, to and from the US market including a spell based in the USA for a leading multi-modal operator. In his role for Aramex he has a mandate to develop US and Canadian traffic, at the same time work closely with the company's American partner.

"This is an exciting opportunity to really push the Aramex product portfolio into this key market. I will be targeting traffic for our key US gateways as well as placing a much higher focus on important vertical markets. The biggest potential is certainly for consolidation growth which will enable us to increase our profile with our core carriers," says Newell.

Welcoming Newell to the UK team, Jim Armour, UK Managing Director, adds: "Paul will be traveling extensively to the US in pursuit of our goals and will be formulating plans to support our network with business from our major corporate accounts. We were looking for an exceptional sales resource to fulfill this role and in Paul I believe we have found just the man"