Wolfgang Kolb will assume responsibility for global sales, leveraging his 20 years of experience at various automotive companies.

Scarpino de Castro joins the company from Irizar, where he served as President for its U.S. subsidiary.

Kei replaces Brian Tobin, who leaves the Board after 17 years.

The German retrofit firm announced a series of appointments to key leadership positions in its ‘Quantron USA Inc’ subsidiary, which it established late last year. 

Three executives have been appointed responsible Commercial, Customer Services and Marketing operations.

Pasterick, who is currently Vice President, Corporate Controller at the company, will succeed incumbent Kim J Brady, who is leaving the company.

The Global Product Management position is a new role, created in order to foster strategic and operational cohesion between the group’s four subsidiaries, while the role of Finance and Human Resources combines two board positions which were previously separate.

Borgwarner names senior executives, Brady Ericson and Chris Gropp to lead new entity.

Palmgren was most recently Head of Industrial Operations Production for the Traton Group.

The brand organises a disparate set of different business operations which relate to transport and industry decarbonisation, including: fuel cell and battery manufacturing; electric powertrain products; and electrolysers for producing green hydrogen.

The company announced the appointment of Barbaros Oktay to the new role of Head of Bus, replacing Rudi Kuchta in the leadership role of MAN’s bus division.

The American retrofit firm raised over USD20m in the first tranche of a funding round led by Texas-based Reynolds Capital, the investment arm of dealership software firm The Reynolds and Reynolds Company.