Ola Källenius
CEO
Ola Källenius has been the CEO of Mercedes-Benz since 2019, where he has initiated a fundamental transformation at the world’s most valuable luxury car maker. Next to spinning off the truck business, he prepared his brand to go all-electric by 2030 and carbon-neutral by 2039. Before becoming CEO, Ola headed the firm’s R&D and sales divisions, led the AMG performance cars brand, and ran the Mercedes-Benz plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The Swede joined the three-pointed star in 1993 after graduating from Stockholm School of Economics and University of St. Gallen.
Ola Källenius has been the CEO of Mercedes-Benz since 2019, where he has initiated a fundamental transformation at the world’s most valuable luxury car maker. Next to spinning off the truck business, he prepared his brand to go all-electric by 2030 and carbon-neutral by 2039. Before becoming CEO, Ola headed the firm’s R&D and sales divisions, led the AMG performance cars brand, and ran the Mercedes-Benz plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The Swede joined the three-pointed star in 1993 after graduating from Stockholm School of Economics and University of St. Gallen.
“It is an incredibly ambitious plan to take a hundred-plus year old company and switch over industrially inside a decade or so. But at the same time, we have no time to waste here.”