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 ==== Ola Källenius, Mercedes-Benz CEO ====
+===== Positions held =====
+* Ola Källenius was appointed as CEO in September 2018, taking over from  Dieter Zetsche, who became head of Supervisory board<ref>https://group.mercedes-benz.com/investors/reports-news/ad-hoc/adhoc-release-339456.html</ref>.
+* Prior to becoming CEO, Källenius was head of research and development at Mercedes Cars, a position he took over in 2015<ref name=":39">https://www.ns-businesshub.com/business/who-is-ola-kaellenius/</ref>.
+* Kallenius was head of Mercedes’s performance division AMG from 2010 to 2013<ref name=":40">https://www.ttnews.com/articles/ola-kallenius-appointed-first-non-german-lead-daimler</ref>.
+* Kallenius also previously headed the sales division at Mercedes-Benz cars<ref name=":40" />.
+* He  joined Daimler in 1993 as a management trainee.
+===== Education =====
+* He holds a masters degree in intermational managemen, and finance and accounting from Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden and the University of St Gallen in Switzerland<ref name=":39" />.
+===== Achievements =====
+* He had a '''good track record as head of operations at McLaren Automotive'''<ref name=":40" />.
+* Källenius is '''credited for turning around the company''', which issued profit warning in 2012 and reported record sales in 2015<ref name=":39" />.
+* Under his reign as CEO, '''Mercedes-Benz has started to focus on high-end vehicles s'''uch as the Maybach limousines, AMG performance cars and G-Wagon off-roader as it shifts away from the less profitable models such as  the compact A-Class<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-18/mercedes-ceo-pushes-for-open-markets-in-worsening-china-tension</ref>.
+===== Attributes =====
+* He is regarded as having an informal leadership style<ref name=":39" />.
+===== What analysts said after being appointed as CEO =====
+* “Kallenius can certainly ‘sell’ a new era better than alternative candidates could have,” said Juergen Pieper, a Frankfurt-based analyst at Bankhaus Metzler<ref name=":40" />.
 == References ==