PROJECT FUTURE: New Supervisory Board Chairmen and Board of Management members for Mercedes-Benz AG and Daimler Truck AG

The Daimler group is taking the final steps to prepare for its new corporate structure with the appointment of Board of Management members for Mercedes-Benz AG and Daimler Truck AG. The new Group structure (PROJECT FUTURE) will take effect when the corporate structure is entered in the commercial register. Daimler aims to launch the new corporate structure on 1 November 2019. In the new structure, the legally independent units Mercedes-Benz AG and Daimler Truck AG are respectively responsible for Cars & Vans and Trucks & Buses.

Manfred Bischoff has been voted Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Mercedes-Benz AG, and Ola Källenius Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Daimler Truck AG. The Supervisory Board has appointed Ola Källenius as Chairman of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz AG, and Martin Daum has been appointed Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler Truck AG. Ola Källenius will also take on the dual function of Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG as the parent company. As early as 22 March 2019, the Supervisory Board and Board of Management of Daimler AG came to an agreement about the future Board of Management and Supervisory Board members for Mercedes-Benz AG and Daimler Truck AG. The Board of Management and Supervisory Board of Daimler AG and Daimler Mobility AG will remain unchanged.

As well as the Supervisory Board Chairmen for the two companies, their deputies were voted in: Ergun Lümali (Mercedes-Benz AG) and Michael Brecht (Daimler Truck AG).

During their constitutional meetings on Tuesday, the Supervisory Boards of both companies also appointed all new Board of Management members with effect from 1 October 2019 and determined the allocation of responsibilities.

Appointments to the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz AG:

• Ola Källenius, Chairman of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz AG

• Jörg Burzer, Production & Supply Chain Management

• Renata Jungo Brüngger, Integrity and Legal Affairs

• Sajjad Khan, CASE/EVA

• Sabine Kohleisen, Human Resources

• Frank Lindenberg, Finance and Controlling

• Markus Schäfer, Research and Development

• Britta Seeger, Sales

   

Appointments to the Board of Management of Daimler Truck AG:

• Martin Daum, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler Truck AG

• Stefan Buchner, Region Europe/Latin America and Mercedes-Benz Brand

• Sven Ennerst, Product Engineering & Procurement and Region China

• Jochen Götz, Finance and Controlling

• Jürgen Hartwig, Human Resources

• Roger Nielsen, Region North America and the Freightliner, Western Star and Thomas Built Buses brands

• Hartmut Schick, Region Asia and the FUSO, BharatBenz brands