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Karin Radstrom

CEO of Daimler Truck Holding

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Karin Radstrom is a CEO of Daimler Truck Holding AG. She has proven that she is able to successfully advance the transformation of a brand while navigating a challenging external environment. As a true leader, Karin Rådström has been instrumental in establishing a new performance culture and fostering empowerment, diversity and customer focus. These principles are essential for Daimler Truck to master the transformation of mobility successfully and be our customers’ first choice. We wish her and her team great success and we are very much looking forward to continuing our collaboration.” 

Daimler Truck Holding has appointed Karin Rådström as its new CEO, making her just the second woman to lead a top-listed German company. Rådström, who has been responsible for the Group's Mercedes-Benz Trucks brand and a board member since 2021, will take over from Martin Daum on 1 October. She has been at the company – one of the world's largest commercial vehicle manufacturer with a global staff of 100,000 – for about 20 years after starting as a marketing trainee. Up until now, Spaniard Belén Garijo, CEO of German pharmaceutical Merck, was the only woman to run a company on Germany's leading DAX stock index. 

According to the latest "Women on Board" index by German interest group Fidar, the proportion of women on the executive floors in the country has increased overall – to 19.3% in the 180 listed companies – but growth rates have recently slowed.

EU member states will have to reach the EU's new targets for gender balance on their boards by June 2026.

As the new European Commission, which is currently being formed, looks set to fall short of gender parity, its president Ursula von der Leyen urged member countries to nominate more women. 

Career

  • Daimler Truck Holding - CEO
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