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Supervisory Board appoints Martin Daum
as Member of the Board of Management
for Daimler Trucks & Buses
In a meeting held today, the Supervisory Board
of Daimler AG appointed Martin Daum (57) as
the Member of the Board of Management with
responsibility for the Daimler Trucks and Daimler
Buses divisions effective as of March 1, 2017. The
appointment is for a period of five years. He suc-
ceeds in this position to Dr. Wolfgang Bernhard,
who is leaving the company of his own volition
and for personal reasons.
“With Martin Daum, we are appointing a very suc-
cessful and experienced executive to the Board
of Management as Head of the Daimler Trucks
and Daimler Buses divisions,” stated Dr. Manfred
Bischoff, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of
Daimler AG. “He looks back on 20 years of experi-
ence in the industry and knows the cyclical com-
mercial-vehicle business from all perspectives.
We are convinced that he will successfully meet
the upcoming challenges in the next years, con-
tinue along the successful path of Daimler Trucks
& Buses and further strengthen their worldwide
leading positions.”
“With Martin Daum and his international manage-
ment experience, the right course is being set at
the top of Daimler Trucks & Buses for the long
term,” stated Dr. Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the
Board of Management of Daimler AG and Head
of Mercedes-Benz Cars. The important commer-
cial-vehicle business in the US and in the NAFTA
region has developed very successfully under the
leadership of Martin Daum and is of key impor-
tance to the Daimler Group.
Since June 2009, Martin Daum has been Presi-
dent and Chief Executive Officer of Daimler Trucks
North America (DTNA) and its affiliated companies
Freightliner Trucks, Western Star Trucks, Thomas
Built Buses, Freightliner Custom Chassis Cor-
poration and Detroit Diesel Corporation. Before
that, he was a member of the management of
Mercedes-Benz Trucks in Europe as Vice Pres-
ident Production Mercedes-Benz Trucks, and
at the same time was responsible for the Mer-
cedes-Benz plant in Wörth, the world’s biggest
truck plant. Daum started his career in the trainee
executive group of the Daimler-Benz AG in 1987.
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