Director at UIC / Deutsche Bahn AG

Paris Area, France

Current:
Director at International Union of Railways, Paris

Past:
VP International Business & Alliances at Deutsche Bahn AG, Frankfurt, Project Leader eBusiness / eCommerce at Lufthansa Cargo, Frankfurt, ...

Education:
McGill University, INSEAD, European Business School Oestrich-Winkel

Since 2005 – Director of Railway Undertakings Department, UIC Between 2002 and 2005, Oliver Sellnick was Vice-President of International Activities and Alliances for Deutsche Bahn's mainline passenger business in Frankfurt. Among his most important projects were the preparation of a high-speed cooperation project with SNCF for operating Paris-Frankfurt / Stuttgart starting in 2007, the increase on the ICE line to Switzerland via Basel to an hourly service in 2006, the founding of Rheinalp, a marketing joint venture with SBB as well as the introduction of the ICE line to Brussels in 2003.

From 2000 to 2002, he was responsible for all E-Business / E-Commerce activities at Lufthansa Cargo. As Director of Key Account Management he created the Lufthansa Cargo Global Partnership Program between 1997 and 2000. Before, he was named Marketing Manager for Lufthansa Passenger Airlines in New York with responsibility for the USA from 1995 to 1997. After having joined Lufthansa German Airlines in 1991, he was Project Leader for Corporate Strategy with a focus on airline alliances and low cost no-frills airline concepts until 1995.

Oliver Sellnick studied Business Administration and International Management at the European Business School near Frankfurt, at INSEAD in Fontainebleau and at McGill University in Montreal.