The people accountable for your freight.
Our leadership team owns every function end to end — no layers of management between a decision and the desk that executes it.
Experienced across every function.
Kian Overseas is a practitioner-led business. Each director and head brings deep domain expertise — not general management credentials moved sideways into logistics. The Managing Director set strategy after a career across freight and customs. The Head of Customs led brokerage desks before building ours. The Director of Operations managed multimodal flows before running our 24/7 desk.
That depth matters because freight forwarding is a technical business. Getting the tariff code right saves duty. Booking the right equipment avoids a rollover. Knowing the carrier's amendment deadline prevents a delay. The leaders below are responsible for those decisions — and they have made them thousands of times.
Leadership directory.
[MANAGING DIRECTOR]
Managing Director
Sets the strategy and standards of the business, with a career spanning international freight, customs brokerage and supply-chain management across UK and global trade lanes.
[OPERATIONS DIRECTOR]
Director of Operations
Owns end-to-end service delivery across ocean, air and road, and the 24/7 operations desk — the discipline that keeps shipments on schedule.
[HEAD OF CUSTOMS]
Head of Customs & Compliance
Leads customs brokerage and compliance, including HMRC CDS declarations, tariff strategy and the company’s compliance-led operating model.
[COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR]
Commercial Director
Builds long-term client partnerships and carrier relationships, with a focus on transparent pricing and solutions tailored to each sector.
[HEAD OF WAREHOUSING]
Head of Warehousing & Distribution
Runs bonded and ambient warehousing and the distribution network, from inventory control to pick/pack fulfilment and last-mile delivery.
[FINANCE DIRECTOR]
Finance Director
Oversees finance, governance and risk, ensuring the business is run to the standards expected of a trusted trade partner.
Decisions made with the client's goods in mind.
Every leader at Kian Overseas is measured on outcomes, not activity. On-time clearance rates, complaint resolution times, declaration accuracy and client retention are the metrics that matter. We hold each other to those standards because our clients hold us to them.
Join the team.
We hire people who take freight seriously. If that's you, we'd like to hear from you.