Onofrio Defina, COO of EMEA and Stefano Gava, COO Americas will swap roles in order to encourage “cross fertilisation” of expertise and ideas.

The exhaust and thermal management specialist has appointed board members responsible for finance, strategy, and division management, expanding the board from three to seven personnel.

Gramse, who has worked for MAN since 2020, will be the board member responsible for procurement.

Dr Srinath Rengarajan has been appointed as Senior Manager of Corporate Product & Strategy.

Rushforth will be responsible for scaling up the fuel-cell electric vehicle designer's business operations in Europe.

The joint venture between Traton, Daimler Truck and Volvo has received the relevant regulatory approvals and will begin operations this year, led by Anja van Niersen.

At the end of 2022, Dr Holger Klein will replace Wolf-Henning Scheider as CEO and Dr Peter Laier will replace Wilhelm Rehm as head of Commercial Vehicle Solutions.

Gao will direct the global strategy of Mercedes-Benz, in particular leveraging his knowledge of Asian growth markets such as China.

Werth will take up his role as Chief Commercial Officer alongside his current position as Managing Director of Fuze Finance, an asset finance company owned by Jo Bamford, who also owns Wrightbus.

Rachner joins the company from Mercedes-Benz and will be responsible for setting up and expanding the international sales team and growing the number of sales partners.

Atwal will retire at the end of the year to pursue "personal interests", to be replaced by current CEO of London Electric Vehicle Company Joerg Hofmann. 

Fruehauf Ltd, based in Grantham, has made three appointments to its senior management team.