Marc Llistosella
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC) and Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt. Ltd. (DICV), today reported important personnel changes in their Board of Management, which will be effective June 01, 2014. These changes have been decided by the Board of Management, Daimler AG, but as a formality are still subject to the approval by the Shareholders’ meeting and Board meeting in MFTBC.
Accordingly, Marc Llistosella, currently Managing Director & CEO, DICV will become Head – Marketing, Sales & After-sales, Trucks Asia & DICV based at Tokyo, Japan. He continues to report to Albert Kirchmann, President & CEO of MFTBC and Head of Daimler Trucks Asia. Llistosella has been leading DICV from a planning phase as a Greenfield Project until today, as the company has become a fully established player in the Indian CV market. He built the organisation, the plant and led the development of a whole new product range under the brand BharatBenz for the Indian market as well as FUSO trucks for markets in Asia and Africa. In his new function he will lead all marketing, sales and after-sales related areas of Daimler Trucks Asia, including DICV & MFTBC, Japan and will continue to oversee DICV’s Indian operations as well.
Erich Nesselhauf
Erich Nesselhauf, currently Vice-President – Supply Chain Management, DICV, will become Managing Director & CEO of DICV. He has been involved in the DICV Greenfield project from 2008 and has built the entire supplier base for the company from the very beginning, achieving a localisation of 85% for BharatBenz trucks at its start of production in 2012. In his new responsibility, he will be in-charge of the entire DICV operations in India, and will to report to Llistosella.
Kai-Uwe Seidenfuss, currently MFTBC Senior Vice-President, Sales & After-sales, will become Head – Corporate Audit at Daimler AG, Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the Board of Management Daimler AG. Heading sales and after-sales at MFTBC in his current assignment, he has greatly contributed to the company’s operations, leading a big part of MFTBC’s growth programme which aims for a significant increase in global sales to more than 200,000 units by 2015 while extending FUSO’s leadership in the markets now numbering to more than 160, worldwide.
Kai-Uwe Seidenfuss
Since August 2013 Daimler Trucks has been announcing a close cooperation of its Asian entities MFTBC and DICV under the umbrella of Daimler Trucks Asia. While DICV has begun production and export of trucks under the FUSO brand, selected functions like R&D, life-cycle management and some administrative functions have also been put under joint leadership. Both entities had a successful year with FUSO stabilising sales and even doubling its African sales in the first month of 2014 and BharatBenz becoming number 4 in the Indian market only 15 months after launch. As a next step to intensify collaboration, Daimler Trucks has decided on these three important management changes.
