Courier Firm Evri Creates Chief Data Officer Role

In the UK, parcel delivery giant Evri, which was previously known as Hermes, has hired MoneySuperMarket's former Chief Data Scientist Harvinder Atwal for a newly created role, Chief Data Officer. He is based in London.

Headquartered in Leeds, Evri provides a delivery and collection service for small and medium-sized enterprises and members of the public, via doorstep collection and within convenience stores. Atwal (pictured) joins after nearly a decade at MoneySuperMarket, which he joined in 2012 as Head of Customer Insight and Marketing Optimisation, leading a team of data scientists and analysts. Prior to this he worked for dunnhumby as Insight Director for the Tesco Clubcard; Lloyds Banking Group as Senior Manager, Customer Strategy and Insight; and British Airways as Senior Operational Research Analyst.

In his new role, Atwal will focus on developing a best practice data strategy for Evri, setting a vision for data for the next three to five years. Fash Sawyerr, Chief Transformations Officer, comments: 'This is a key area of our business and it's important that we have the right calibre of person in place. Harvinder is talented and experienced and we are confident will be a great asset to our team'.

Web site: www.evri.com .