Supervisory Board of Daimler AG appoints Ola Källenius to the Board of Management

• Ola Källenius to assume Board of Management  Mercedes-Benz Cars Sales; appointed until December 31, 2017

Stuttgart - In its meeting of today, the Supervisory Board of Daimler AG has

appointed Mr. Ola Källenius (45) as a member of the company's Board of

Management with effect from January 1, 2015 until December 31, 2017. He

will continue to be responsible for worldwide car Marketing and Sales. The

Supervisory Board of Daimler AG has thus expanded the Board of

Management to eight members once again.

"Ola Källenius will make our Board of Management younger and more

international. These are two characteristics that we increasingly see also

amongst our customers. With his wide-ranging experience, Mr. Källenius will

help us to optimally address customers' needs and to achieve the growth

targets of our ‘Mercedes-Benz 2020' strategy," stated Dr. Manfred Bischoff,

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Daimler AG.

Ola Källenius, born in Sweden on June 11, 1969, has been a member of the

Divisional Board of Mercedes-Benz Cars responsible for Marketing & Sales

since October 2013. From 2010 until 2013, he was Chairman of the

Management Board at Mercedes-AMG GmbH. In 2009, as President and

Chief Executive Officer of Mercedes-Benz U.S. International, Inc., he led the

production side of the sport utility vehicles, the M-, R- and GL-Class. Before

that, he was Managing Director of Mercedes-Benz HighPerformanceEngines

Ltd. in Brixworth, United Kingdom, where he was responsible for the design,

development and production of Mercedes-Benz Formula 1 engines. From

2003 onwards, he had been Executive Director Operations at McLaren

Automotive Ltd. He started his career in the corporation´s Management

Associate Program of the former Daimler-Benz AG in 1993.