Executives

In Källenius, Daimler gets a new kind of CEO

Richard Johnson is print editor of Automotive News.
October 01, 2018 05:00 AM

Since the move had been telegraphed for almost two years, it's no surprise that Ola Källenius will succeed Dieter Zetsche as CEO of Daimler next May. But this strikes me as more than one of those seamless, soulless, standardized transfers of power at Daimler or BMW.

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