Kawal Preet

Executive Vice President, Planning, Engineering, and Transformation FedEx

Last Reviewed: October 3, 2026

Executive Summary

Kawal Preet has been FedEx’s Executive Vice President for Planning, Engineering, and Transformation since October 2025, the role that plans and engineers the company’s networks and drives its transformation programs. She has been with FedEx since 1997 and ran its business in the Asia-Pacific region as regional president from 2020, at first also covering the Middle East and Africa. Before that she led operations as senior vice president and was vice president of planning and engineering. She is also a director of Intertek Group, the British testing and certification company. She returned from running a region to lead the network planning function she had earlier helped run.

Career Highlights

• Executive Vice President, Planning, Engineering, and Transformation at FedEx since October 2025.
• Regional President, Asia Pacific, 2024 to 2025.
• Regional President, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa, 2020 to 2024.
• Senior Vice President, Operations, 2017 to 2020.
• Director of Intertek Group PLC.

Professional Journey

Preet joined FedEx in July 1997 and held various positions until 2014, according to the company’s annual report. From July 2014 to May 2017 she was vice president of planning and engineering, and from June 2017 to June 2020 senior vice president of operations.

In June 2020 she became regional president for Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa, and from June 2024 regional president for Asia Pacific, a role she held until September 2025.

In October 2025 she became executive vice president of planning, engineering, and transformation. FedEx completed the spin-off of its less-than-truckload business, FedEx Freight, on 1 June 2026, keeping a 19.9 percent stake, and now reports two segments, Express U.S. Domestic and Express International, according to its 2026 annual report. The proxy credits chief executive Raj Subramaniam with leading the company’s Network 2.0 and one FedEx transformation programs. Outside FedEx she is a director of Intertek Group PLC, the British multinational assurance, inspection and certification company.

Education

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